Published on 4th August 2012 by Becky Mosley

The latest slot at Sky Vegas will be called Happy Fruits, and offers a new twist on the enduring pub fruit slots of old. Although it will have the appearance of a classic fruit slot, it will come with the one thing those games don’t generally have: Extensive feature play. In fact, there will be three different features:

The Splat Bonus feature will let players select a splat symbol to reveal a multiplier; the Super 7s Bonus displays a mix of all the 7s available and asks players to select from them at random, with Gold, Silver and Bronze choices appearing, followed by a stream of coins which stops randomly to reveal a multiplier.

The Crazy Streak bonus triggers a special set of reels forming a symbol matrix, within which multipliers accumulate, contributing towards a final feature multiplier.

Fruit-style games are still wildly popular, despite many pundits expecting them to die out with the advent of video slots. They originated in the US about 100 years ago when gambling was prohibited there – although playing for food instead of cash was permitted, prompting chewing gum manufacturers to sponsor spinning reel games, supplying bars of various fruit flavours as prizes. The symbols appearing on the winning line determined the flavour of gum that was given as a prize, hence the cherry, melon and bar symbols we’re all familiar with and still recognise today…