$1,000,000 B.C. Slots
If you haven’t seen a slot machine based around prehistoric people then perhaps it’s time to cave in and spin the reels of a game that features sabre-tooth tigers, dinosaur skulls, mammoths and some beautiful women in animal-skin bikinis. Those are just some of the cartoon symbols that turn up in the stone age setting of $1,000,000 B.C., a fun slot from The Art of Games that has some up to date features like free spins, scatter pays and a caveman who takes you to an hilarious bonus game.
The unique design of the $1,000,000 B.C. video slot shows the five reels at the entrance to a cave, surrounded by the rock walls and a few dinosaur bones. Up to 30 paylines can be activated, each one marked out with more bones and the game title has been roughly carved into the roof.
While you’re not going to win a million Dollars, there’s still some great prizes to collect when enough examples of the same symbol land across a line from the left side. The free games, multipliers, bonus rounds and a high return to players percentage should help bankrolls to avoid extinction. Free $1,000,000 B.C. video slots can be tried out, or you can play just a few lines at a time, but to collect all the potential prizes, you will need to active all 30 lines and play for real cash. Online and mobile optimised casinos that feature The Art of Games range are easy to find and $1,000,000 B.C. is a great introduction to slots from this Dutch company.
Back in time
Unlike many online casino slots which pack the reels out with playing card symbols, everything in $1,000,000 B.C. is related to the prehistoric theme. Dinosaur eggs pay five times, ten times or 100x the amount wagered on each payline when landing on three, four, or five reels, while a triceratops skull is worth up to 200x and the blue-hair cave beauty returns prizes worth up to 300x. A primitive axe and sabre-tooth tiger are each worth a little more.
Higher-value symbols will only need to land on the first two reels of a payline to become winners, with a cave painting returning a prize of ten times the line bet. This rises to 1,000x if it’s seen right across the reels, while the redhead cavewoman pays up to 3,000x and there’s some mammoth payouts from the mammoth, as it’s worth a massive high limit of 6,000x the line stake. Little animations play out when a symbol becomes part of a winning combination and we particularly liked what happens in the cave drawing. We won’t spoil the surprise, so you’ll have to see for yourself.
Bone-Framed Bonus Symbols
Fire has been discovered and our nice Neanderthals have framed their furnace with bones. It’s a scatter symbol that pays out multiples of the total bet, not just the stake per line when it’s seen in any three or more places at once. Another special symbol is the stretched animal skin that awards up to 15 free spins with multipliers whenever it stops in three or more places. The number of spins and any win multipliers are chosen at random, but it’s a still a good way to collect more prizes without having to place any real cash stakes.
A Violent Volcano
Finally, we get to the Palaeolithic prize winning caveman. This confused-looking guy heads over to a second screen in the mini game whenever he stops on at least three spots of a payline. It’s a fun round that sees rocks being fired out of a volcano as the caveman, arms in the air and legs spinning as fast as he can, is moved left or right by a click on the screen all accompanied by the sounds of crashing rocks and shouts as he gets hit. Prizes are awarded with each falling rock that he avoids, and you have six lives before the round ends. You then are then given a grade, from Survivor to Extinct, and the wins are paid out.
Cashing in with the Caveman
A Menu button opens up the main command buttons and it’s from here that you set your coin values from a low limit of 0.01 to a maximum of 1.00 per line. Between one and three coins can be put on each line and between one and all 30 lines can be activated. Unless all 30 lines are in play, you won’t be able to claim for all the wins or bonuses when they appear on in-active ones, so most punters will choose to play them all, which can be done for just 0.30 and then raise the bets to suit the budget.
This gives us a maximum bet of 90.00 per spin and at these stakes you qualify for the highest payouts. Other control options include an Auto button which applies your chosen bets to multiple spins, while you can also choose to have the soundtrack on or off. We’re not sure what stone age music sounded like, but the Art of Games have added the simple noises of rocks being hit, which seems about right.
Cave-based Capers
The Caveman video slot from Espresso Games is another cartoon styled journey back to the dawn of humanity. Animated characters argue with each other as symbols of bones, fossils and giant eggs drop into volcanic mud piles. It’s a five reel, 26 payline game that’s got a stone wild symbol to double any wins when it completes a combination, and the modern marvel of a stone wheel awards a varying number of free spins.
Caveman Stoney is yet another example of early man, although the advanced CGI graphics of this game means he’s moved us into a different epoch. It’s a dice slot, where colourful dice make up the lower-paying combinations across the 15 lines, while a club, meat, vicious dog and Stoney pay out the top prizes. A warming fire will act as the wild symbol and it’s also the job of these flames to spark off a free spins feature.
Humorous Homo Sapiens
There’s a lot of enjoyment to be had spinning up these characters. $1,000,000 B.C. is a slot with lots of amusing touches, from the antics that play out when symbols create winning lines, to the sound effects of a panicking caveman about to get squashed by rocks spewing from a volcano. But it’s not all laughs, as this game comes with some very real winning potential. The free spins bonus games with multipliers are a highlight that can return some serious coin payouts, and once the bonus round starts, prizes are all but guaranteed.
You can play $1,000,000 B.C. on iPhones, iPads, Android and Windows devices as well as on desktop computers and laptops. It’s an ancient adventure that’s just waiting to be discovered at a growing number of casinos.
