Background on the Aristocrat Australian Style Slot Games affected by the recent announcements. Aristocrats slots produce most of the slot machines used in Australia. The Aussie based gaming products company has been manufacturing slots over the past six decades.
While it dominates the market down under, it has made unsuccessful forays into the American and European markets.
The Early History of Aristocrat
The company started in 1953, producing an early classic in the slots market, The Clubman. Though the manufacturer didn't take the name "Aristocrat" until 1955, it early on prospered in the economic boom of the 1950s. In 1960, the company started selling to the European market. It made its first inroads in the United States in 1964. In 1989, Aristocrat became a corporation, investors started publicly trading its stocks on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Aristocrat Comes to America 2000 was the year that Aristocrat Gaming was fully licensed to sell to the United States. Their designs had long been influenced by Vegas and, in fact, Aristocrat had a Las Vegas office as early as 1965. But legal hurdles had to be cleared, which made it difficult and unprofitable to sell American machines until late in the game.
As well as slots Aristocrat owns a large part of the Australian pokies market. "Pokies" is the Australian slang term for video poker.
Aristocrat Slot Machines List
Queen of the Nile
Queen of the Nile is the most popular slot machine in Australia. "Queen" offers a bonus round, where players receive 15 bonus spins. The money won on these bonus rounds is tripled.
Because of the popularity of Queen of the Nile, many of the machines are influenced by this payout structure. Aristocrat offers a variant of this game named King of the Nile.
Dolphin Treasure
Dolphin Treasure is influenced by Queen of the Nile. Aristocrat decided they should collect some of the customers who liked Queen, but wanted to try something a little different. Dolphins Treasure offers a bonus jackpot of 150,000. Of course, this means low end payouts are smaller.
ReelPower
This is an innovative game which Aristocrat hopes will be much imitated. Instead of buying extra pay lines, you can "buy" reels. When a bonus symbol comes up on this particular reel, it multiplies the payout bonus.
50 Lions
Like Reel Power, the name of this slot is a pun on the payout structure so perhaps it should have been called 50 lines instead. This slot machine allows you to enable fifty pay lines, which follows the worldwide trend towards more payout lines.
Lady Luck
This machine has four bonus games. Whenever you hit the bonus, you get to choose which of the games to play. This is considered a "bonus back game". Other examples of this type of slot machine are Zorro, Lucky Devil and Mr. Cashman.
Penguin Pays
As the name implies, this machine pays out when you hit the bonus penguin. It does not have the bonus game structure Queen of the Nile that many other Aristocrat Gaming slots have. Superbucks III is similar in pay structure to Penguin Pays, though the artwork is much different.
Other games not summarised:
Enchanted Forest, Cash Express and Dollar Storm Lil Lucy, Foxworthy Slots and MKVI.
Many Aristocrat slots have a tiered system of jackpots. When you play a bonus game, you try to accumulate as many bonus points as possible. These qualify you for a four-tiered jackpot, so the more bonus points you gain, the better jackpot you can win.
