Ferris Bueller's Day Off Pokies
It’s now over 30 years since Matthew Broderick played the role of Ferris Bueller in the fantastic comedy film where a smart-assed teen skips school and goes on an adventure around Chicago with his girlfriend and troubled friend Cameron. WMS Gaming have created a special online pokie based around the movie and filled it with video clips and images taken directly from screen, including the school principal, Rooney, his ditzy secretary Grace, stunning girlfriend Sloane and even the shoe-eating Rottweiler and doomed Ferrari.
Played out over 5 reels and with 25 paylines, the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off video pokiehas wilds, scatter payouts, a Fake The Parents free spins round and a Kick The Car feature, where put-upon Cameron trashes his dad’s multi-million Dollar vehicle.
The reels sit against a background of a sunny Chicago suburban street, and apart from the title above them, the only other thing to note is the control panel. This is where bet sizes are decided, from a low limit of 0.05 per spin to a max of 125.00, and anyone who likes to try out their games before staking real cash on them should be able to play free Ferris Bueller’s Day Off video pokie rounds at most WMS-poweredonline casinos.
Playing Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The pay table details how much is won with each combination of 3, 4 or 5 identical symbols landing across an active payline, running from reel 1 on the left side. The Q, K and A playing card symbols are the least valuable, and then the car and dog will pay out a little more, with Cameron and Grace both next up in value.
Sloane only needs to appear on reels 1 and 2 to be worth a prize, as does Mr Rooney, who is the highest value standard symbol, awarding up to 5000x the line bet when he appears across all 5 reels.
The game logo, with the concerned parents of Ferris checking up on their ‘sick’ son, is a wildcard, so it’s able to replace any standard symbol and thereby complete winning combinations, doubling the amount of the standard win any time it does so. It’s not worth anything on its own and will only appear on the middle 3 reels, and it also won’t be able to act as the scatter symbol.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Bonus Features
The Save Ferris badge is a scatter, and any time 3 or more appear, players are first awarded a scatter prize and then taken to the Fake The Parents bonus round. It’s a free spins game, but before they begin, players will need to play the coughing sounds on Ferris’s synthesiser to determine how many spins there will be and what multipliers will be attached to any wins made during them.
If the Ferrari symbol parks itself on reel 2 at the same time as Cameron lands on reel 4, the Kick The Car bonus game begins. Viewers will remember the scene where Cameron sends the Ferrari crashing out of the garage window, (although those people traumatised at the sight should know that the filmmakers used a Corvette with a body kit), and this bonus round sees an animation of this. The more kicks it takes to wreck the car, the more coinsplayers will win when it finally launches itself into the woods below.
There’s some randomly-won progressive jackpots as well, although the more staked on a spin, the greater the chance of scooping one of these prizes. The Blockbuster, Smash, Classic, Epic and Acclaimed jackpots have different values but are won in the same way, which is to say completely out of the blue at the end of any spin, so players don’t know if their very next game will be the one that adds thousands of Dollars to their bank balances.
The Verdict
Pokies based around famous movies tend to do quite well, with people wanting to recapture some of the magic that made the film so popular. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of the biggest comedies of the 1980’s, so it’s reasonable to expect that the mobile-optimisedcasino pokie machine will be a huge success as well.
By having images taken directly from the film, and some reliable bonus features related to incidents that occurred in it, this nostalgic pokie certainly takes players back to the heady summer of 1986 when everyone wanted to Save Ferris.