Original Release: Konami, 2012
A fairly standard Konami 3×5 with a Western theme that kinda calls to mind their old Laserdisc arcade game Badlands more than the TV show
Rawhide (Konami, 2012)
Review by: C. M0use
Rawhide is one of Konami’s typical 3×5 games from the around-2010 era, but it made an unusually good first impression on me by giving up 10 free spins on my literal very first play and then adding a couple more good sequences on my first session.
Despite all that I didn’t walk away winning anything, but I did cycle a couple hundred in bets on the ol’ players card for a total cost of just a couple bucks in actual loss. Rawhide is one of the last of the true penny slots to be found hanging on at live casinos, with a 1 cent minimum per line at your choice of 1 to 25 lines.
The only RTP listing I can find for it puts it at 96.03%, which is a little below the usual Konami threshold for the time but still on the high side on the whole. This does seem to be predicated on chasing free spins to at least some degree; you get an automatic 2x multiplier on wins during these and can hit symbols that increase the multiplier, so you may need to catch up on some losses by hitting a lucky sequence of this nature. But as my test play sessions demonstrated (and as is true with most other Konami titles of the time), hitting free spins isn’t all that rare of an experience.
I don’t know if it unseats Lotus Land or China Shores as my budget favorites for grinding long play sessions, but it’s up there as a choice if you see it around. You can sit and play for a long time on a little money, pardner can get a whiskey or two in from the nice cocktail girl and still possibly come out ahead on the whole.
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