Original Release: Playlinks, 2019, Android / iOS

One of a crop of a few very similar “social casinos” from Playlinks released over the last few years, as with the others does not offer any sort of real money or real prize play but does appear on GPT sites with big offer amounts (and really has nothing to do with Vegas; also it’s 100% slots)

HighRoller Vegas (Android, Playlinks, 2019)

Where to Buy: Freemium download from Google and Apple app stores

How to Emulate: Android Emulation Guide

Review by: C. M0use

We’ve previously reviewed Rock n’ Cash Casino here, and this is another extremely similar “just for fun” / “social” casino from Korea-based Playlinks Corp that just has its own set of hundreds of made-up slots that mostly copy popular real-world titles. They are entirely different games from Rock n’ Cash, but how many are just quick re-skins I couldn’t tell you.

The whole overall structure and experience is also “same same but just a little different.” In the way it handles leveling, bonus chips, card collections, and so on, but there are some minor differences here and there. Gameplay-wise, the biggest plus for this casino is it doesn’t ever seem to start hitting you with mandatory ad views before starting up with a new slot. It doesn’t have the constant notifications for the “big wins” of other players you can tap on for a little bit of bonus chips and EXP, but it now has “guilds” of a sort that you can join of up to 10 other players that get their own little bonus quests every week. And when a player in a guild hits a big win, everyone else in the guild can collect 250k bonus chips off the back of it. This actually helps quite a bit and makes an active guild important.

As with Rock n’ Cash, there are absolutely no real world prizes or perks of any sort to play for, this is 100% “just for fun.” But what you’ll most likely come to it from is the large offers it tends to present on GPT sites. I found this one a bit more F2P-friendly, at least at first, as it has more optional “watch ad to get decent amount of bonus chips” opportunities. Checking in once every two hours to watch three short ads actually substantially helps replenish your bankroll via the “rainbow dice” feature in the “time bonus” section (especially if you maximize this by doing a good chunk of your spinning early in the game day to get a 4x or better multiplier for all your bonuses going).

However, as also occured with Rock n’ Cash, I’m fairly certain they quietly swap the pay tables out on you once you gain enough levels (in this case around level 40). I base this on my own experience with the two games now, watching sharp and sustained swings in variance that seem coincidental to when you start to get to meaningful money in the GPT goals, but also a bunch of forum comments to the same effect. It seems like you go from 96% RTP pay tables early in the game to hook you in, to more like 80% jerk tables once you get close to earning some substantial real world money (numbers pulled completely out of my butt but you get what I mean). This is one of those things that it’s very difficult to prove, you’d have to be constantly analyzing thousands of spins over time, but also there’s absolutely no law or regulation preventing them from doing this (since it’s not “real money”) so why wouldn’t they?

So as far as GPT sites go, if you can find some decent offers for the lower levels that don’t take all too long to get to (like 40-60) maybe go for it, but it’s very dicey beyond that even with a 60-day term. Otherwise I don’t see a lot of reason to play it, it’s polished and runs well if you just want “just for fun” slots but there are so many other options out there with both real earnings potential and real world games to play.

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Original Release: Bally, (year?)

A Bally game from simpler times that is among the crop that bridged old-school reels with more modern video features

777 Blazing Double (Bally, ??)

Review by: C. M0use

Woo. Looking up info on old slots is usually difficult and inaccurate at best, but this one was worse than most.

It’s definitely a Bally release, as noted on the cabinet, and almost certainly part of their “Alpha” operating system/cabinet series that was huge 20 or so years ago. But from there it gets messy, because apparently the Alpha games had a ton of potential configurations. Some are “Hot Shots”, some are the earliest Quick Hit mechanical games, etc and so on. They might have progressive jackpots, they might not. You could apparently mix n’ match some of these components.

So if you search for “777 Blazing Double” on YouTube you’ll see a ton of people playing a three-reel version. But that’s not the version I played recently, which was a mechanical five-reel with a lot more paylines. The only video I could find that resembles it was the one seemingly shot in The Void linked below, though it’s not quite the same as that one has a different betting structure.

If you encounter this beast in the wild it’s worth checking out, though, at least if you like your low-roller games that stay fairly non-volatile while having a simple but pleasant enough old-school aesthetic experience (only thing I don’t care for on that front is the “air raid siren” sound on bigger wins). The configuration I had is a 25 cent slot that covers all lines for your minimum bet, only allowing you to adjust up to 50 or 75 cents (1 to 3 credits) per spin to boost payouts. For your quarter minimum bet you cover all 30 possible paylines.

No real bonus features or flash, but that translates into more regular line wins, which in turn means stability. There is a trick to this one you have to be aware of, though. You’re warned on the cabinet, but it’s kinda in the “fine print” that not everyone reads. If you just bet the minimum 25 cents, the 7s are NOT active as a winning symbol. Like at all. Line wins with them will simply not count. To activate them, you have to step up to two credit (50 cent) bets. I didn’t run advanced math on this or whatever, but just from playing by feel for awhile it seemed like this is definitely a worthy investment for the extra line wins it makes possible. That’s close to the realistic minimum you can find to cover all lines on casino floors these days anyway, often you have to pick around to find something at 30 or 40 cents per spin.

Anyway. If you wanna big time it and roll at the mighty three credits (75 cents) per spin maximum, aside from multiplying your regular wins what that buys you is the possibility to win the biggest “blazing 7s with double jackpot” prize. It’s also possible that the bets will be 30-60-90 cents rather than 25-50-75, your mileage may vary.

Whatever the case, it’s an interesting one if you want a low-cost grinder. The one caveat there, if your goal is to sit and chill for awhile and wait for a drink or two, it does NOT move slowly on its own due to the lack of bonus features and whatnot, you’ll have to slow-roll it yourself.

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Very similar game, but not exactly the same

Original Release: Konami, 2000, Game Boy Color

Konami retains the old Track & Field 2D gameplay, but expands it just a bit with a minor “career mode” of sorts

ESPN International Track & Field (GBC, Konami, 2000)

Where to Buy: eBay
How to Emulate: coming soon!

Review by: C. M0use

I checked this one out because this humble Game Boy cart reportedly had some sort of “life management”/dating sim tucked into it, in the general manner of Konami’s “Powerful Pro” baseball games of later years … good luck ever uncovering it, though, between the poorly-explained and fussy event controls and the insane CPU competition. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people quit playing this well before they even found out about it!

So this is another entry in Konami’s long-running Track & Field series, with the same core gameplay as seen since it debuted with its 70s pornstache athletes back in the early 80s. In this case it’s got 11 events in total, that play out quickly with simplified (though definitely not easy!) controls. There’s some naming confusion with this one, though; first of all it’s actually part of the passel of “International Track & Field 2000” releases that came out around the millenium, and then for whatever reason this GBC edition was the only one of the crop that ESPN struck up some sort of licensing deal to put their name on.

Forget the ESPN thing, though, it means absolutely nothing and adds nothing to the game … I don’t think they even got their logo in their beyond the title screen, it was just like paying for stadium naming rights or something. You’ll also find very sparse gameplay options, at least in this edition. “Trial” each of the events to practice, go for the gold in the “Championship” mode, or uh … well that’s actually it.

I assume the life management stuff is buried in Championship mode, but good luck making it there. When you start it up, you choose a 3-letter name and then you’re launched into a series of events. You get instructions for the basic button functions before each match, but these don’t convey some of the nuances you need for the more complex ones like the high jump and the pole vault. And with the simpler ones, like the dash where you just pound the two buttons fast, the CPU opposition is absolutely insane to the point I’m not even sure you could beat some of them with auto-fire! I think you have to survive this first series to get to the “career”/sim stuff, but from watching a video about it on Youtube it looks simplistic and stupid anyway.

It has some polish and at least a little promise, it looks pretty good for a GBC title, but ultimately kind of an overbearing turd of a game that will just break your controller.

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Original Release: IGT, mid-2010s

An early “tile matcher” from IGT that leveraged their popular Cleopatra property, Wild Tiles keeps the general reputation of allowing for small bets and not being all that volatile

Cleopatra Wild Tiles (IGT, mid-2010s)

Review by: C. M0use

Cleopatra Wild Tiles is a branch-off of IGT’s popular Cleopatra series that got in on the “match 3” trend that emerged from online slots somewhere around the early-mid 2010s. This one seems to be a casino floor exclusive, however, though a bit more uncommon to find than the mainline Cleopatra games.

It’s tough to find any information on it at all – release date, RTP, and so on. I’m almost certain its a mid-2010s-ish release based on the general emergence of “tile match” or “cluster” games (starting online around 2011 but getting onto casino floors in a big way with Planet Moolah in 2013), and it’s in one of IGT’s older I-Game cabinets from the period. IGT also has a comparable and more commonly found game called Gems Wild Tiles that was released in 2016, though whether that was before or after this one I don’t know. It may have just gotten a limited trial run based on how infrequently I’ve come across it; the only places I’ve ever seen it are one machine floating around the ROW casinos in Reno and a couple of far-off-Strip Station and Boyd joints in Vegas. You can still occasionally find it in the wild, though, as I last played it in March 2026.

Your best guess as to what the RTP is, but doing it by “feel” it seems reasonably stable and doesn’t eat through money fast (probably why you don’t see it around much). Since it doesn’t do paylines, you just choose a fixed amount to wager per spin. At the lowest end you can low-roll at 30 cents per spin. A 5×5 field of tiles falls into place, any lines of three or more that are vertical or horizontal wins you some money. The main gimmick is that a lot of these return less than your wager, however, so you have to string a few together to make money. Any tiles that match are cleared, which can then possibly form more matches as other tiles drop. Each clear also produces one “wild” tile, unless a wild was used as part of the clear.

So you get a fair amount of line wins, though some might end up fractional and only a partial return of your win. The big catch-up comes if you manage to hit the bonus feature, by fully uncovering a vertical “bonus” column in the background by clearing a buncha tiles. Since it requires clearing a lot of tiles you’ve probably already got a pretty big “standard” win in the process of uncovering this, then you also get the fruits of a quantity of free spins that now include scatter symbols that also pay you out (and usually land with each spin). This isn’t too too rare either, I hit it twice within 10 or 15 minutes or so each time while just low-rolling around checking the game out.

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Original Release: American Sammy, 1994, Arcade

A simple arcadey bowling title that offered trackball or joystick setups in its cabinet, but either way didn’t really do much to justify getting ported or being revived at any point.

Krazy Bowl (Arcade, American Sammy, 1994)

Where to Buy: eBay

How to Emulate: Arcade Emulation Guide

Review by: C. M0use

Krazy Bowl is a simplistic bowling game from American Sammy with not a lot of meat on the bone. It offers just two modes of play, both of which have you play 10 frames each in what are basically just “score attack” competitions to get your initials on the ol’ leaderboard. Both of these zip along quite quickly as the game is definitely “arcadey” in design over “realistic”; one mode is a straightforward game while the other is a series of oddball pin configurations where you have to pick up at least a spare in each frame to keep going.

The controls are also somewhat odd, at least if you’re emulating. The cabinet was designed to support either a trackball or joystick installation, but clearly the trackball was the preferred and emphasized. But emulation in MAME and such will usually default to the joystick setup, which takes the odd tack of having you simply line up the ball vertically and choose any level of hook you desire within 10 seconds, then press up to roll at a fixed “max power” level. This makes it easy to pick up at least spares on every frame without any real practice, the only real challenge is in the wonky physics when pins are knocked over.

So the game is barely mediocre overall, but with the caveat that playing it with a proper trackball setup may well improve it somewhat.

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Original Release: Konami, 1994, SNES

Another entry in the “isometric racer” sub-genre founded by RC Pro-Am, Biker Mice is competent but grindy

Biker Mice From Mars (SNES, Konami, 1994)

Where to Buy: eBay

How to Emulate: SNES Emulation Guide

Review by: C. M0use

If you’re playing a Konami licensed title from the 90s based on some anthropomorphic animal property, like 99% of the time it’s a beat-em-up. This is one of that other oddball 1%. Konami’s spin on Biker Mice From Mars, a flash-in-the-pan Ninja Turtles-alike of the early-mid 90s, is instead a racer in the lineage of RC Pro-Am (with Rock n’ Roll Racing being a more contemporary SNES … uh … contemporary).

One element that’s a bit unusual is that the structure is more like what would become common in the CD-ROM era of racers a few years later; you grind the early races over and over for money to upgrade your car pieces and parts before you can proceed. The gameplay is simple, with not a lot to remark on if you’ve already played RC Pro-Am or similar titles. You pick from one of six characters from the cartoon, each has their own little stats and special powers, there’s a slew of Mario Kart-esque powerups and weapons. One little unique quirk is that you need to pop a wheelie to maintain your speed over various rough and wet patches along the tracks, but otherwise this has all been seen before.

I feel like it’s a mediocre title. It isn’t any real specific failure of gameplay, or track design, or graphics, all are at least adequate and occasionally impressive. It’s more that it’s a difficult grind to play, between replaying the same levels a lot and the computer’s top three racers driving nearly flawlessly in every race right from the beginning. After a lap or two they all gain the ability to shit endless bombs with lethal precision, and guess who they aim all of them at? You’re also constrained by the structure, which starts you out in one “cup” so to speak and won’t let you move on until you place in the top three overall, otherwise you’re just kicked back to the first race of it to continue grinding.

The whole thing is a bit of a letdown only because it was a later-life SNES title and because Konami set the bar so high with their other licensed cartoon titles, if this had come out in the early system life it would probably have got more traction. But it’s ultimately frustrating and a grind to play. Rock n Roll Racing is the superior title if you want a racer in this style.

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Original Release: IGT, 2005

Join Moon Man Pharaoh in a quest for Egyptian riches with this fairly low-roller-friendly slot

Pharaoh’s Fortune (IGT, 2005)

Review by: C. M0use

Pharaoh’s Fortune is the cheapest “penny slot” I’ve encountered still out there in the wild on casino floors as of 2026, asking a mere 15 cents to cover all its lines with the minimum 1 cent bet (seemingly with a max bet of $3.00 at 20 cents per line being common).

Anyway, it seems a fairly low volatility slot and a decent low-roller grinder if you are seeking such things. Has a fair amount of line wins, and a straightforward bonus feature that has you pick from several stone blocks which can result in up to 25 free spins with up to 5x in win multipliers if you get lucky. And you get a little random “Walk Like An Egyptian” audio clip during the bonus game if you’re a Bangles enjoyer.

Not much else to say, other than there seems to be an “updated” version of it with much more modern graphics that is an option in IGT’s multi-game Money Mania cabinets. This review is for the old original version from the mid-00s, I haven’t tried that update, but the general pattern with these more modern “revivals” of these old games is that they’ll both be more expensive to play and less favorable (or at least way more volatile).

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Original Release: Play Links, 2017, Android/iOS

A “just for fun” social casino that ranges far and wide in fielding competent off-brand versions of about 300 slots

Rock n’ Cash Casino (Android, Play Links, 2017)

Where to Buy: Freemium on the major app stores

How to Emulate: Android Emulation Guide

Review by: C. M0use

Rock n Cash is in the general “social casino” mold, but it’s not a “sweeps casino” where you can play for real money. It’s also not a MyVegas-style social casino where real prizes are offered … there’s no purpose here but playing presumably legally distinct copies of popular slot titles for the love of the game (and collecting music boxes for some reason … it’s not rock but I guess it’s in the ballpark of the theme?)

However, there is one indirect way to make real money at it … it’s all over GPT sites, and quite often is one of the highest-paying offers available. However, a lot of that money comes from rebates on purchases and/or reaching absurdly high levels (like the 800-1000 range). Is it worth taking a run at?

Well, let’s start with the fundamentals. Despite being from a relatively unheard of Korean company with few apps under their belt, it is a polished and professional product that mostly functions very well. The only quibble I had with its coding and performance is that if a bonus game crashes out on you, you don’t automatically get whatever you would have won delivered to your inbox. Instead you have to go back into the same game and MAYBE it’ll pick back up where it left off … or maybe it’ll just forget about it and you’re out whatever bonus wins weren’t already collected. This doesn’t happen often, but it did happen to me a few times playing here and there over a few weeks … MOSTLY it picked back up where it left off but I did have two instances of it jipping me out of money I should have won.

At first there are no mandatory ads, but after a few days of play it’ll start requiring you to watch an ad every time you start up a slot title. Irksome, but not a dealbreaker if you’re not changing games very often (which you probably won’t want to if you’re playing for GPT goals). I notice it also starts pushing its $5 No Ad Pack aggresively right afterward.

There’s a guide linked below that indicates free-to-play players can expect to get up to level 100 or so within 30 days, but beyond that it’s going to require investment of real money to maintain the bankroll needed to absorb variance at the bet level you need to gain EXP at a reasonable rate. Par for the course for these things. While it’s possible you can lose bonus feature funds to a crash, I can’t say that happens all that often. So it’s down to whether or not you trust your GPT site enough to honor their offers to make an investment. But otherwise I see no real reason to play this, it’s all just kinda inferior clones of real-world games and no other types of casino games beyond slots (though it does have an absolutely huge selection).

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Original Release: Playtika, Android/iOS, 2012

Probably the most popular “just-for-fun” bingo game going for over 10 years now, Bingo Blitz has had an astounding run despite being rather basic and dry

Bingo Blitz (Android, Playtika, 2012)

Where to Buy: Free-to-play via the Android or iOS app stores

Review by: C. M0use

If you’re not familiar with Bingo Blitz, you may know it from the commercials with Drew Barrymore orgasming over it (a prospect that would have been much more intriguing 30 years ago). But it’s been rolling along for over a decade now despite being one of the most boring games ever put to pixels, making money hand-over-fist and even captivating normies to the point it recently got a themed show on Game Show Network.

It’s certainly not due to any secret grandma gambling going on in here. No real money, no prizes, no nothing. It’s not one of those “sweepstakes casino” type games. You just play very straightforward bingo matches, only spiced up by limited use of “special powers” that you charge up as you tick off called numbers. But there’s no real strategic deployment to these, the game just forces you to use the next one up in your queue.

I mean it’s just so mundane I’m at a loss for anything to say about it. It’s polished, it plays bingo just fine, there’s a little chat area and you’re actually playing with other people you can talk to (though it seems to mostly just be begging for collectibles at any given time). I wouldn’t think this many people would be this into bland bingo without real money play, but it’s normie catnip. If that doesn’t float your boat the only other reason to mess around with it is that it frequently appears on GPT sites and sometimes with some very good offers considering how easy it is.

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Original Release: IGT, 2014 (?)

The themed Alien slot was a big hit in casinos for its attention to detail, atmosphere and fun bonus rounds

Alien (IGT, 2014)

Where to Buy: eBay

Review by: C. M0use

Alien is one of those rare slots worth giving at least one spin just for its design and visuals, at least if you’re a fan of the older movies. While some of these licensed slots just have a cursory paint job of the IP slapped over them in a basic way, this one actually went out of its way with the general atmosphere and a couple of elaborate bonus features.

It’s a basic 5×20 from IGT similar to many of their early 2010s games, but the base game is better-looking than usual with detailed graphics and its little sometimes creepy messages across the top of the playfield. It really shines when it gets to the bonus features with the rendered aliens crawling about and attacking you. There are two of these, and the less elaborate one has you pick from eight alien eggs until you hit the loser with the facehugger hidden among them (on my test run both times it was the bottom-right nearest the spin button, probably just a coincidence but maybe worth keeping an eye on for increased prevalence I dunno).

The really cool bonus feature is the six-level “ship escape.” Each round has you pick from one of six cards, if it turns out to be a weapon of some sort you fend off the attacking alien with it … if not you lose and you’re done. It shows you the options not taken after you make your choice, and you start with a 5-1 chance of getting a weapon in the first round but this gradually tilts against you until it’s 3-3 in the penultimate level and 2-4 in the final one.

As far as value goes, if you find the original cabinet with the analog buttons you can minimum bet just 20 cents to cover all lines. As far as odds, this one is totally by subjective feel as I can’t even find a RTP listing for it. But it does seem to lean fairly reasonable and non-volatile, the bonus features appear fairly often and line wins are not uncommon. Worth checking out just for novelty alone, but you might get some value out of it as well.

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