Original Release: WMS, 2010
The second Press Your Luck licensed slot (and first from WMS), this five-reel attracted attention with a giant bonus board but could have done more with the theme
Press Your Luck (WMS, 2010)
Review by: C. M0use
Fans of the show will likely be looking for its mid-80s charm and cheesy animation, but there’s none of that to be found here. Instead this slot is a “modernized” (and generally low effort) take on the classic TV property, with animation that looks like it was done cheaply in Flash.
With the unimpressive aesthetics and a playfield full of generic symbols (gems and numbers), everything centers on the bonus game. This is entered by popping three scatter symbols, and is meant to resemble the “no Whammies” big board from the original show. Of course, this being a slot machine, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t actually stop when you tell it to; the landing spot seemed to jump randomly on me several times during my test run.
The other issue is that a lot of the fun of the game show was the Whammy animations coming across the screen to steal someone’s win totals, obviously something that isn’t going to happen here either (you do get them on occasion but they’re more of a positive than negative in this edition). With seemingly only a halfhearted attempt at capturing the show’s style, and a volatile game that relies on a bonus round that isn’t particularly good, there’s not much to recommend this one.
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