Cherry Star Slots
Another retro-themed slot from the acclaimed Odobo/Rabcat partnership, Cherry Star is a classic casino slot featuring three reels, nine paylines and a wheel of fortune style bonus feature.
Based predominantly on fruit, Cherry Star is a classically designed slot that looks and feels like the type of machine you’d play in a Las Vegas casino. As such, it doesn’t offer anything in the way of cutscenes or animated mini-games, but it does provide access to a huge progressive jackpot fund.
With that in mind, Cherry Star is a slot that has quite clearly been designed for those who are willing to eschew the frivolity of fancy graphics and innovative features in favour of focusing on what really matters – that is, winning plenty of cold hard cash in the most time-effective manner possible.
A Style Icon
Forget basing your product on a design classic; with Cherry Star, Odobo and Rabcat have more or less completely copied the look of the iconic one-armed bandit, with the game’s three reels appearing on a console that comes complete with its own side-lever and clickable buttons that control the betting.
To the right of the three reels, a payout table is on permanent display so you know exactly what each combination of symbols is worth, while high above the gaming console itself is a giant wheel which can be spun when the bonus feature is triggered. Paylines can be activated or deactived with the touch of a button, with players able to bet anywhere between 0.5 and 1 credits per selected line.
As such, Cherry Star is a relatively low-variance slot that is more in keeping with the older generation of online slot. It doesn’t offer much in the way of features, but the rewards from the bonus game can be quite substantial and the progressive jackpot is shared with a number of similar slot titles.
Fruit Salad
While adhering to the classic symbols, the theme of Cherry Star is primarily focused on fruit, with cherries, plums and lemons representing the lower value symbols. Other slot machine staples like the BAR logo, liberty bell and lucky seven all also feature, with mixed fruit representing the only wild.
Unlike on some slot machines, where the wild symbol can be substituted for any regular symbol, in Cherry Star it can only be used in conjunction with other fruit symbols to make a winning payline, making it a far less valuable symbol overall and one that actually has little bearing on your earnings.
In terms of audio, Cherry Star features a range of sound effects that are reminiscent of an old slot machine, with the whirring of reels, winning payout and bonus noises all harking back to the classic slot machines of the 80s and 90s. There is no background noise present in Cherry Star and the game’s only music occurs when the bonus feature is activated, making the audio features fairly minimal.
Wheel of Fortune
The main bonus feature in Rabcat’s Cherry Star slot is the big wheel situated on top of the console itself. Accessible only when three or more bonus scatter symbols have appeared across any of the three reels, a big button on the slot marked “SPIN” suddenly lights up and becomes clickable.
Once pressed, the screen pans up to a sectioned wheel as it spins and an arrow-shaped pointer reveals what bonus you’ve won when it finally comes to a stop. With free spins and payout multipliers on offer, the top prize is a 100x bonus that will send your winnings through the roof.
Another way to win big on Cherry Star is by triggering the progressive jackpot prize, which is only activated when three golden Euro symbols have appeared. With the total fund being added to whenever someone plays one of Rabcat’s classic retro slots, players can win anywhere between 5% and 100% of the total prize fund based on their current stakes – with the top of that range often featuring life-changing payouts in excess of €100,000 when the jackpot hasn’t been recently won.
Simple but Effective
Keeping in line with Rabcat’s other retro titles, Cherry Star is not going to win any awards in the field of innovation. With three reels and nine paylines, the game is about as basic as it gets and would be simpler still were it not for the bonus feature, which at least secures the game some individuality. However, if you’re looking for a straightforward slot that harks back to classic Vegas, Cherry Star is worth a look; and the progressive jackpot is certainly sizeable enough to keep your attention.
