Dolphin Treasure Slot Game Dive deep with the dolphins and their friends as you search the ocean floor for abandoned treasure. Aristocrat Gaming’s cool blue design and cartoonish creatures draw you into this 5-reel, 20-payline slot, where you’ll enjoy tripled winnings playing in the Free Games Feature.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited has been designing slot machine games since the 1950s so you don’t really expect to see a lot of the older games in their online inventory. But one game that made thecut is Dolphin Treasure, which was originally released to land-based casinos in the company’s MKV Series 1 cabinet.
At the time a 5 reel video slot game would still be considered a novelty. The three reel mechanical arm machines were still dominating the casino market. Anything that wasn’t branded “DoubleSomething” was relegated to the back rows of the casino with the 25 cent machines.
There were two variations of the Dolphin Treasure game, one featuring 20 pay lines and one featuring 9 pay lines. These boxes accepted real coins.
Aristocrat released the online version of the game at the end of November 2011, which makes it one of the earliest titles the company introduced to its online markets. The game’s long appeal toslot players is surprising in some ways but people would probably play a 2-toed sloth machine if they thought it paid a lot of money. A dolphin-themed slot game at least evokes memories ofsummer days spent at the beach.
Of course, 1996 was the year that the unremarkable movie “Flipper” came out. Starring Paul “Crocodile Dundee” Hogan and a then not-so-well-known Elijah wood, the movie grossed about $20 millionat the box office and fortunately spawned no sequels. The movie was no doubt inspired by the television show starring Jessica Alba, which began in 1995 and ended in 1997. Of course, DolphinTreasure bears no resemblance to either the movie or the show whatsoever. It’s just a dolphin-themed slot game.
The animations would have been state-of-the-art for 1996 and the music would have been a nice alternative to the crunch, grind, ka-ching, ding-ding-ding cacophony that flooded the airs in mostcasinos of the day (at least where slot machines made up the majority of the games). Gaming regulations were not quite as player-friendly then as they are now, and it is possible that DolphinTreasure held back a little bit more money than the online game does now. But competition also plays into the field. The gaming market has heated up since 1996 with more companies jumping intothe industry to get a slice of the growing pie.
Given the stampede of three reel, 7 and bar, stars and stripes, bells and whistles slot games that dominated the market in 1996 Dolphin Treasure was probably like a breath of fresh sea air toanyone who happened to wander by it. It would have stood out from the field just for daring to break away from all the clacky, clattery noise of traditional three-armed bandits.
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The rest of this article reviews the online version of the slot game.