Dr Watts Up Slot Machine
Ey, what’s up, Doc? Nah, Bugs Bunny is nowhere to be seen in this inventively-titled slot game from Microgaming. Comprised of 5 reels and 3 rows, the immersive non-progressive slot boasts outstanding graphics, an amusing theme and strong gameplay. There are no less than 243 ways to win in this one, while slot touchstones such as scatters, wilds, free spins and a bonus round are also in abundance. The title’s top jackpot is 10,000.
Dr Watts Up is all about a wacky scientist cooking up a storm in his laboratory while his sanity slowly unspools. Dr Watts Up is joined by a cast of characters including his trusty pink-haired assistant; but will any of them stop him before he takes his quest for innovation too far?
The betting range in Dr Watts Up runs from 0.30 to 120, and the coin range stretches from 0.01 to 0.20. The game’s maximum bet-per-line is 20 coins.
A Futuristic Slot Game
Dr Watts Up is certainly among the best Microgaming slots from a graphical point of view. The reel grid itself is almost futuristic in design, with each symbol looming from the board. The grid appears to be harnessed by mechanical levers and looms above a checkerboard floor. Below, you’ll see the Spin button, in yellow, and an Auto Play button too. Running tallies keep note of your coins, bet and win amounts. There’s also a View Pays button if you want to check out the pay-table.
Symbols on the board itself, meanwhile, include the eponymous Dr Watts Up. He is the typical mad-eyed scientist, bedecked in a lab coat, tie and gloves and with some goggles pushed up his forehead. The good doctor is clutching a test tube containing a lurid green substance and cackling dementedly. His pink-haired assistant is also on the board, peering at a notebook marked ‘WARNING’.
As seems to be the case in many video slots, the female assistant is rather attractive, with a sizeable bust straining against her low-cut blouse. Feminists would have a field day with these slots, we think!
Other icons include a futuristic ray gun, a blue brain inside a water tank, a green sludge-like creature under the microscope, a glass beaker containing a pink liquid, a chimp in a lab coat, a series of cosmic rings (known as the Nexus), a game logo and a robot clutching the same peculiar test tube of green matter as the doctor. The inventive game logo also appears above the reel grid.
The game’s wild symbol is Dr Watts Up, and this one substitutes for all others except the lab mouse and the Nexus. The logo also pays 300 for three, 2,000 for four and 10,000 for five at max bet.
The scatter, meanwhile, is the cosmic Nexus. Three or more triggers the free spins feature, with the number of icons determining how many spins you receive. For three it’s 10, for four it’s 15 and for five scatters you’ll win 20. You’ll also win 600 for three, 1,800 for four and 6,000 for five in a line.
During free spins, one of the five reels will turn randomly wild with each spin, thereby helping increase your winning chances. All wins will be multiplied by the total amount staked.
Watts up with the bonus round?
Free spins aren’t the only incentive in Dr Watts Up. The Laboratory Bonus Game is activated when the bonus scatter symbol, represented by the lab rat, appears on the first, third and fifth reels. A second screen will then appear, and you’ll be shown a selection of test tubes. All you need to do is pick two of these, which are then handed to Dr Watts Up. The good doctor will calculate their value by feeding them into the chamber. Players are free to pick again up to two times.
Mad scientist, mad wins?
Dr Watts Up’s escapades in the lab might be hair-raising, but if you want to make some glorious wins yourself, you may well need to be as persistent as the doctor in chasing your dreams. With that said, there are 243 ways to win and you can thus expect to trigger regular solid wins, even if you don’t manage to hit the grand prize. Still, who knows what will happen? What’s easy to say is that this slot is a heck of a lot of fun.
