Typically for an Aristocrat slot, Big Ben slot machine features 5 reels and 25 flexible pay lines. Bet per line can be set at very accessible €0.01 minimum and up to.
Big Ben is the most famous clock in the world. It was destined to be so from the very start. The immense clock resides at the top of St. Stephen’s Tower in the Westminster Palace in London, wherethe British Parliament meets. The palace was heavily damaged by fire in 1834 and substantially rebuilt. A new tower was designed and built for the sole purpose of housing a clock that would keepaccurate time for the city. Sir George Airy, the royal astronomer, retained the services of Edmund Beckett Denison, a famous barrister who was also a highly regarded expert in the science ofHorology, the measurement of time, to design the clock.
Denison’s design was completed in 1854 and the tower was completed in 1859. 16 horses hauled the clock’s gigantic bell through the streets of London as crowds waved and cheered. The bellwas dubbed “Big Ben”, either in honor of a famous boxer named Benjamin Caunt (he was a very large man) or in honor of Sir Benjamin Hall, who was famous for giving long speeches. No one reallyknows for sure how the bell got its name.
Ben tolled out the hours for the first time on May 31, 1859 but the hammer that Edmund Denison designed was too heavy and it damaged the bell. The clock was taken out of service while a new,lighter hammer was made and when that was installed the bell was turned so that the new hammer would not hit the area where the crack was located. Through the years since the name “Big Ben” hasbecome associated with the clock tower itself, rather than with the bell.
The clock continued to keep time throughout the Second World War, when the Battle of London wrought much damage upon the city. The chamber of the House of Commons was destroyed by an incendiarybomb but the clock tower remained standing and continued to toll away, keeping perfect time.
In 2003 Aristocrat Leisure Limited released the Big Ben slot game. The design uses a mix of clip art quality graphics and animations coupled with standard synthesized slot game sounds. The gamewas notable for offering a 30,000 coin top prize, which was very high at the time for a non-progressive slot game. Aristocrat began porting its land-based casino games to Internet gaming serversin 2011 and Big Ben found its way online in 2012. The rest of this article reviews the online version of the slot game.
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Australian gaming giant Aristocrat has a large back catalogue of slots which are now available online. Big Ben is a great example of simple slot game which would have been the latest thing 15+ years ago in live casinos, though now feels simple and dated. London, or rather clichéd symbols of a London of yesteryear, is the theme. This is a bright and playable slot, as long as you are not expecting too much in the way of interesting features. Graphically, the game really does feel dated. Symbols such as the soldier in the busby hat, Big Ben itself and the Victorian gas lap are colourful, though they lack the detail you would expect from today’s online slot games. There are a few sound effects (a chiming sound, and some intro music), though most of the sounds are the standards from Aristocrat. This is a shame, as a good sound track can really make the difference for many slot games. On the positive side, this slot has an addition to the usual free spins round – in the form of the ‘Chime’ feature. This can potentially get you a win of 500x your total spin amount for the full 12 chimes.
