Disco Spins Pokies
It’s time to break out the white suit, put on some platform shoes and bust some funky moves under a glitterball, as the Disco Spins video pokie from Net Ent is hitting the dancefloor. There’s 5 reels, 20 paylines and some exciting features to put a spring in your step, as extra wild symbols will help complete winlines, plus there’s a choice of 2 free spins bonus games with either richer symbols or multipliers.
Accompanied by some suitably groovy background music, it’s all done in a fun cartoon style against a backdrop of speakers and flashing disco lights. A minimum of 0.20 is needed to get started, although free Disco Spins video pokies are offered for those punters who like to try before they buy, and once happy with how it all works, they can raise their stakes to a high limit of 200.00 per spin.
Winlines in the normal run of play are created in the standard format of having 3 or more of the same symbol stop across a payline, on adjacent reels running from the left side. If the unique wild symbols turn up, this can change, while the bonus games are triggered by a scatter symbol that can turn up anywhere.
Disco Spins
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Playing Disco Spins
Lower value wins come from the J, Q, K and A symbols landing across a line, ranging from just 5x the line bet when the J stops on reels 1, 2 and 3, up to 100x for a full run of the A. Each of this has been given a bit of a 70’s inspired makeover to fit in with the overall theme, and have a silver effect that sparkles when they become part of a winning combination.
But it’s the cool characters who bring Disco Spins to life, not only because they look better, but also because they pay more and can become wild symbols on any spin. We see 5 dancing dudes and divas, who pay from 15, 50 and 125x the line bet for the blue guy, up to 40, 200 or 1000x when the lady in red struts her stuff on the reels. In between these, we have dancers in green, purple and yellow outfits, each nicely designed with huge flared collars, groovy glasses and in a full dance pose.
Each of the 15 symbol positions is made to look like a square on the dancefloor, lighting up in random colours each time the reels finish spinning. If a character symbol colour matches the colour of the dancefloor square that they stop on, this symbol turns into a wild, able to substitute for all but the scatter to potentially complete winning lines. It’s a unique concept and tends to happen quite frequently, with no upper limit to how many wild symbols can be created this way in a single spin.
Free Spins Bonus
If the wild feature was innovative, so is the free spins round, as players have a choice when it comes to the format of this bonus game, triggered when the glitterball lands in any 3 positions on the middle 3 reels.
One option is to play the Disco Spins game, which consists of 10 bonus games and only the dancers and scatter symbol are on the reels, which makes it easier to land higher-value winning lines, plus there’s the added benefit of potentially getting more wilds at any time. Alternatively, the Free Spins option can be taken, where 15 extra games play out and any wins will be multiplied by 3x for some big coin payouts.
The overall returns are going to be pretty similar, otherwise players would soon realise that one was better than the other and choose it every time, so it’s just a matter of personal preference which option is taken and of course, most gamblers will want to try them both. Any 2 or more scatters in a single bonus spin will retrigger the round, adding extra games on to the end of any still left in the current free spins.
The Verdict
Anyone who remembers the disco era is going to love the design of this pokie which will take them right back to 1970’s when we all wanted to look like John Travolta or the girl from Saturday Night Fever that no-one remembers. (Karen Lynne Gorney, according to Google.)
But back to the game, and it’s also going to attract an audience who are just looking for unusual bonus features, with the way that dancers are transformed in extra wild symbols being the definite highlight, although the option to choose some rewarding free spins games is another great feature.
The main downside is that like many Net Ent pokies, it isn’t mobile-optimised.