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Dennis Rodman Basketball Slots Game

World over, it is basketball fever now! People are glued to their television sets, watching their favorite team’s fortunes in the NBA basketball league. So, why not take this basketball frenzy into your casino games as well? There are two casino slots games based on the basketball legend, Dennis Rodman, the winner of five NBA championships between 1989 and 1998. Throughout his professional career, Rodman has played for several top teams, even though towards the fag end of his stint, he had developed a bad boy image, inviting nick names such as ‘the Menace’ and ‘the Worm’ from his fans.

The first one, titled ‘Dennis Rodman’ was released by Playtech in 2006. It is a five reel, 20 pay line slot game with 37 winning combinations. The coin denominations vary from $0.01 to $5.00, and the player could wager up to 10 coins per pay line. The reel symbols portray the much publicized eccentricities of Rodman such as Rodman in a bridal dress, him with his face painted white and red hair and Rodman with rainbow dyed hair. A basketball signed by him, and his painted sports car are other symbols on the reels. The red hair symbol has the largest of the payouts of 10,000 coins, if five of those symbols appear simultaneously on an active pay line. In fact, it is also the Wild symbol. The painted car is the Scatter symbol that leads to a potential scatter pay out to the players. That is, three or more scatter symbols activate the free spins bonus round, wherein the player gets 10 free spins. Finally, Basketball is the bonus symbol, and getting three or more of it on any active pay line activate the bonus game on the second screen. In the bonus game, the player has to pick a designated number of basketballs, from the choice of basketballs given, and wins the hidden credits each one of them has.

The second slot game is titled “Dennis Rodman The Worm’s World”. As mentioned earlier, ‘worm’ is the nickname of Rodman. Developed by Vegas Technology and released in January 2008, it is a five reel 20 pay line slot that offers 34 winning combinations. The coin denominations range from $0.01 to $10.00. The players could wager up to 10 coins per pay line. Interestingly, the game symbols on the reels are quite similar to those of the Playtech version. However, the Wild symbol is the wedding dress. As in the Playtech game, the Scatter symbol as well as the bonus symbol here as well is the car and the basketball respectively. Three or more scatter symbols appearing on the reels ensure 15 free spins with tripled payouts to the players, while getting the bonus symbols simultaneously on reels 2 and 4 activates the bonus game on the second screen. Unlike the Playtech version, here Rodman himself shoots basketballs for the players.

Cryptologic join hands with Paramount Digital Entertainment

This year, online Cryptologic casinos such as VIP Casino and InterCasino will have slot games, based on characters from the popular Paramount movies, thanks to a multi year agreement signed between the casino majors and Paramount Digital Entertainment. Some of the terms of this agreement were released by Cryptologic on March 17.

As per the contract, Cryptologic will have the rights to develop and offer online slot games, based on the characters from over 20 Paramount movies, that include Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Beowulf, Beverly Hills Cop, Ferris Bueller and Ghost, to name a few. This would help Cryptologic to have more games based on the movie theme. At present, it has few such as the Movie Mayhem series, Fantasy Realm based on mystic movies, Silent Screen that takes one to the 1920s, and the Sunday Afternoon classics.

CryptoLogic’s president and CEO, Brian Hadfield, described the deal as between leaders in their respective fields. He said, “Paramount Pictures boasts an extensive catalogue of classic and new releases, and Cryptologic makes the world’s best branded Internet casino games.” He further added that branded games will drive the online casino revenue up, and hoped that the present deal will catapult Cryptologic to an unassailable position in the slot game arena. Returning complements, Vice President Interactive Licensing Paramount Digital Entertainment Luke Letizia stated in his release that online gaming industry is a suitable new platform for the Paramount brand. He exuded confidence that Cryptologic games will be at par in terms of quality and caliber that of Paramount.

Cryptologic was desperate to forge new partnerships, especially since they lost their exclusive standing with Marvel Comics recently. Marvel had entered into a deal with Playtech, Cryptologic’s main rival in the online casino domain, enabling them make online slot games based on Marvel Comic’s characters. With the new deal, Cryptologic is confident about gaining the lost ground, and give their competitors a run for their bucks.