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E CONTINUES! ULAR STAR WARS VIDEO SLOT LINEUP
the game is the likeness of Yoda—a favorite Star Wars character and the renowned teacher of Jedi warriors—that sits on top of the slot machine. In the top box is a spinning wheel that spins as you’d expect, similar to other wheel games with credit and mulitiplier amounts listed along the outer edge. But it also spins sideways and acts as another reel when the game is in the free spins bonus mode!
Ed Rogich, Vice President of Marketing for IGT, put it best: “ e Star Wars lm series gives us such a
and the player spins the wheel again. is continues until the player selects a credit value for the wheel, and the credit value is multiplied by the total multiplier amounts. at total is the player’s bonus total for the round. Chances are very good that the player will be able to build up many multipliers. In fact, the bonus is designed to build up lots of multiplier points before getting a credit value, which ends the bonus.
Cloud City Bonus
Wars logo symbols on the rst payline with maximum credits wagered wins the MegaJackpots® Instant WinnerTM top award.
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
e second new addition to the Star Wars lineup, scheduled for release in late summer as of the date of this article, is Star Wars: Rebel Assault. While we can’t provide too many
recognizable characters, visu-
als and sound e ects. The Empire Strikes
Back video slot brings even more entertainment to players with its
5-reel, 30-payline format and the unique rotat- ing bonus wheel in the machine’s top box.”
The Empire Strikes Back penny video slot is programmed to award lots of big credit wins, and features two exciting and potentially lucrative bonuses.
Jedi Training Bonus
When three Jedi Training Bonus symbols line up on a played line, the video screen changes into an image of Yoda surrounded by di erent objects. e player is then prompted to spin the bonus wheel, which will always land between a multiplier and a credit amount. e player then
touches one of the objects surrounding Yoda on the screen. Yoda levitates the object and either a wheel position, a credit or multiplier amount is revealed. If a multiplier amount is revealed, the game keeps track of the multiplier number
features where the wheel in the top box acts as an additional reel! e free spins begin when a Han Solo symbol lands on the rst reel and a Princess Leia symbol lands on the fth reel. is bonus becomes more and more lucrative for the player since the average number of free spins is 20, but can be up to 100. Free spins continue, building up credits along the way, until Han Solo and Boba Fett symbols land on the reels. At that point, a second level of the free spins bonus begins. In the second level, the top box wheel actually rotates to the side and becomes a reel! It spins three times to indicate a number of extra free spins. In addition to the wheel transforming itself into a reel, another exciting feature of this bonus is the Han Solo symbol, which
is an “expanding wild.” at means that when it lands on any reel, that reel becomes wild and stays wild throughout the remaining
free spins.
Top Award
As with all MegaJackpots® games, players want to know the winning symbol combination
that will result in the top
award. For Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, ve Star
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symbols become an “expanding wild,” The unique features of the Cloud City bonus—the top
hen the reels are locked, they become roughout the remaining free spins.
wheel reel and the “expanding wild” symbols make this bonus round both fun and lucrative for players.
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