Boom Town parks its reels in a dusty frontier landscape under a huge blue sky. Rust-coloured buttes tower beside the grid, which is held up by heavy timber posts and a crossbeam, like a gateway into town. 1844 is the year printed on the town sign. Above the reels hang four wooden plaques labelled Mini 20, Minor 60, Major 400 and Mega 2000, which shows right away what the jackpot ladder looks like. Genii also advertises wins of up to 194,400 coins on the intro screen.
Theme and Gameplay
Every piece of art comes from the same sunbaked scene. First on the paytable comes a moustached lawman in a red vest with a rifle slung over one shoulder, then a woman in a broad hat raising a revolver, and a beaming prospector cupping a glowing nugget. The middle group has a buffalo, a vulture with wings stretched wide and a coiled rattlesnake. A flowering cactus, a bleached bull skull and a golden horseshoe fill the bottom tier. The Wild is a palomino horse and the scatter a pan of nuggets.
Slot Features
Max Ways removes lines from the picture altogether. Any run of one symbol over neighbouring reels counts, and amounts grow with the coins staked. The horse Wild covers for other symbols, with the nugget Scatter as the single exception.
Super Spins is where the action is. Three Golden Nuggets on reels 1, 3 and 5 hand you 7 spins. Throughout it, a nugget landing earns a level frame that remains where it appeared, right through the final spin. A second nugget falling inside the frame moves it up a step. Those steps run canvas tent, wooden saloon, gold mine entrance.
Get a frame to the gold mine and you are rewarded with 1 extra spin. After the last spin, every frame level reveals either a cash prize or a jackpot. Sums depend on what you wagered when the round started, and are quoted in coins.
RTP and Win Potential
The overhead plaques list Mini 20, Minor 60, Major 400 and Mega 2000, and the intro screen offers up to 194,400 coins. Each frame’s award follows the stake that opened Super Spins, so your coin level before the nuggets landed counts.
My Thoughts On This Slot
What I like most is that the frames give the trigger something to follow. Watching a nugget grow from tent to saloon to mine entrance feels like a short tale, and the spare spin at the top is a pleasant reward. Away from the bonus it is a standard ways game with modest symbol values, so calm stretches are likely. Anyone who likes waiting for one large bonus will get the most from it; fans of constant extras may drift.
