We all need a little bit of endorphins every now and then, don’t we? (Endorphines are hormones your body releases during pleasurable activities such as exercise, food (quite an activity), sex – when it feels stress or even pain).
And taking in account crazy times we’re living in, it’s so good to go back in times, before Youtube, social media, smart phones and other things that made us spoiled, lazy and a bit estranged. But also made the whole globe spinning faster!
Times when friends would gather to listen to a new album of their fav band on audio cassette or long play record and take pictures of such gatherings, impatiently waiting for photo studio to develop the whole photographic film so you can finally see all the photos taken!
Slow down and dive into Retromania, slot game produced by Endorphina (thus this hormonal intro) – already quite beloved casino games provider, and released in the very end of 2014, a year that already sounds a bit retro to some people.
Endorphina team is a bunch of friendly, creative and enthusiastic people, who really care about overall players’ satisfaction when it comes to their games.
For some reason, Retromania slot game is not one of their most popular or best known games, even among Endorphina fans. Somehow we can understand that, because in the beginning we didn’t know what to think about it either – is it just a game with cool idea, but bad realisation or it’s one of these cute, underrated games with undiscovered winning possibilities.
Put a record on and let’s check out this 5 reels, 3 rows and 9 paylines chic slot!
Retromania slot game symbols
There’s 9 different game symbols here, including Wild and Scatter, so 7 basic ones – they’re all some good old times reminiscence – classic typewriter as the most valuable one (and of course rarest to get), transistor radio, landline phone, old camera, radio cassette, camera film (we used it before digital cameras and smart phones, yes) and a vinyl ! Totally cool son!
Vintage lady symbol is Wild and it substitutes for all other symbols except Scatter AND also except typewriter symbol (damn)! Scatter is just a yellow paper star. Wild symbol is at the same time second highest paying symbol of the game.
Nostalgy Bonus Game
This whole slot game theme can be called Nostalgy, but it’s actually a bonus game title! At least 3 Scatter symbols landing anywhere on the reels, start Nostalgy Bonus Game, with up to 3 game rounds! More Scatters, more rounds – 3 Scatters or Bonus symbols trigger1 round, 4 Scatters on the reels trigger 2 rounds game and 5 Scatters trigger 3 rounds of the Bonus game.
It’s relatively frequent triggering Bonus Game, but in case you’re really impatient – there’s a Bonus Buy feature whose price depends on the number of rounds you wanna purchase.
This is a little different slot bonus feature than what we’re used to. When Bonus Game opens up waiting for you to click “Start”, you’ll enter a board with randomly placed game symbols framing it, with 4 X signs in each of the corners.
There are also symbol values displayed – vinyl brings x2 your bet win, camera film x5 win, cassette x10, camera x20, phone x50, transistor x70 and of course typewriter wins again – win of x100 your bet!
There’s a 3 symbols reel in the middle of the board which spins, randomly picking 3 symbols. They won’t necessarily be different, sometimes all 3 are the same. Then white square goes through the symbols around and pretty randomly stops at one of the symbol fields. If it matches with any of 3 symbols displayed on the reel, you get the corresponding (multiplied) win amount. If it doesn’t match any of the 3 symbols, this square goes around again, until it matches symbols again or until it hits X.
So the number of bonus rounds actually means number of times you can hit X before bonus game is over.
Don’t be confused if one of these 3 symbols is Scatter Star, it’s a waste of a spot and also doesn’t bring additional round, as you might thought, logically.
Risk (Gamble) Feature
Each time you hit the winning payline, on the lower left corner of the game, you can notice little red gamble button – in case you wanna risk and try increasing the amount won.
A table with 5 cards will open up, with only first card open and 4 closed ones. First card represents the dealer and you need to pick one card to beat him with higher card. Joker card is the highest and dealer can never get it. Beating the dealer, your winning will be doubled and you’ll get more attempts, up to 10 in a row.
Average return to player in this mini feature is 84%.
If you’re not interested in taking card risks, just click the collect button on the right.
Bet Options and Game Settings
Depending on the coin value you want to place on each of the 9 paylines, your bet size will adjust. Available coin values are 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50 and maximum 1. This makes bet size not a rounded number, but instead, you can place bets like 0.09, 0.18, 0.27, 0.36 to 9.00 as the maximum bet value available.
By clicking the little menu icon on the left, you can check some stats of your play session, pick language, game quality, adjust the sound or choose to enjoy some cosy autoplay rounds.
Retromania is low to medium volatile slot game, with RTP of 96.04%.
Conclusion
Retromania is really cute and nicely designed slot game, with cool sounds, animations and vibes. It usually gives you lots of smaller frequent wins, often in a raw, rather than bigger ones. But it doesn’t mean there isn’t a potential. Five of a kind is also not rare, but most likely it’s gonna be five vinyls – lowest valued symbol.
Bonus game can leave you completely dry, giving you one round/attempt and hitting X first thing, but it can also last and accumulate a decent win. It’s also not too hard to trigger or re-trigger the Nostalgy Bonus Game. Waiting for more Scatters to come up after two of them land on the reels is followed by vinyl scratching sounds and intensifies the anticipation and excitement for bonus game to be triggered. But even if it doesn’t happen and often it won’t, don’t worry, everything in this game is quite frequent and so the Bonus Game kinda is.
Bottom line is that this is a very pleasant and fine slot game for occasional and recreational spinning. Most probably it won’t make you rich nor escort you to the cashier, but for some fun, joy, bonus wagering purposes and fixing your balance a little bit, it can be interesting. Actually, the whole GG team finds vintage style and theme very appealing and visually pleasant, so we can’t help but add some extra overall points to Retromania for that.
