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Slot Review: Slotris

Who among us hasn’t, at some point in their lives, wasted vital daytime hours playing Tetris? The game, first introduced back in the 80s for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (also known as: serious old-school gaming), introduced global audiences to the great joys to stacking funny-shaped blocks and organizing them into lines. For those of us of a certain age – mostly members of Gen Y - Tetris was the an essential and unforgettable part of our childhood. The coolest thing ever back in those days was to whip out one’s old-school Game Boy (you know – the huge, white kind) and play Tetris while mom and dad did boring, adult things. Back then, everything was in black and white and there weren’t any backlit screens, but matching up those falling puzzle pieces was a huge, major thrill. Thanks to Slotris, a fabulous online slot game from the exceptional Slotland casino, all the fun of playing Tetris can now be enjoyed by a new audience… those players of online pokies! We love Slotland’s proprietary software, because their games look so very different from those of their competitors. Plus, the gameplay is inevitably great. The payouts are fat, and the progressive jackpots are always a lot of fun. All things considered, we just love Slotris!

Slotris features three reels and one payline, making it basically a classic slot machine title Coin values start at fifty cents and range upwards to five dollars, with a single coin playable at a given time. That makes the highest per-spin wager one of just five dollars! That’s a deal and a half, given the Slotland progressive jackpot. This prize is HUGE, and routinely pays out six-figure prizes. Given the fact that you need only bet five dollars a spin, there is probably nowhere that you can have a real shot at so much money for so little investment!

The coolest thing about Slotris is how closely it parallels the play of Tetris, only in an online slot version. The game’s creators were really very clever in how they married the two concepts to make something very different and extraordinary. You have to clear ten rows of blocks to win the Slotris progressive jackpot, which is nor nearly as easy a feat as doing so on a video game console or on your cell phone playing a mobile game. There is some aspect of skill involved in this pokey, but it is still a slot machine – which means that ultimately, you are in the hands of fate. The graphics of this three-dimensional video slot machine title are exceptional, and appear to a treasure chest locked by the reels, with a fat lever off to the side just begging for a spin! And, while the ultimate prize in any game of Tetris we’ve ever played was the bragging rights to tell your friends that you’d attained the highest score EVER, you can actually win a pile of money playing the Slotris game. That really introduces a whole new and very rewarding aspect to the game!

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