Thunderstruck Slot Machine

Thunderstruck is a bonus video slot machine offered by Microgaming Solutions. An online bonus video slot machine has features and graphics in line and up to par with typical video slot machines. The "bonus" part comes in later in your game -- there is a bonus round offered the player that consists of attempting to win fifteen free spins -- by the way, any win that you make is tripled in size automatically during this bonus round. This is different from the typical bonus game of picking from a second screen and instead relies on the appearance of bonus symbols on the actual reels. A bonus game that takes place within the standard game may be confusing or just plain boring to some -- and this opens up a whole can of worms about Thunderstruck. A game that was once wildly popular suddenly losing fans left and right -- what could have happened?

Thunderstruck Slots

The Thunderstruck slot machine was developed by Microgaming and was at one time the most popular game that Microgaming had online. Now, the popularity of Thunderstruck Slots has waned, perhaps because of the limited bet size, or perhaps because Microgaming is constantly coming out with better and better online games. Either way, Thunderstruck is just one in a series of excellent games put out by Microgaming, many of which share features. Such as the five reels present on the Thunderstruck game. There are five reels on just about every video slot machine in the world, this is nothing new. The nine pay lines, on the other hand, is well below average for a five reel video slot machine, and maybe this is yet another reason why the popularity of the Thunderstruck machine did not remain at its fever pitch.

The coin sizes for the Thunderstruck slot machine are on the low side; great for casual play or low-budget gamers, but kind of a problem for those online slot players who are looking for the big $20 credits. Coin sizes offered are $0.01, $0.02, $0.05, $0.10, $0.20, $0.25, $0.50 and $1.00. The coin amounts being wagered per spin vary between one coin per spin and forty-five coins per spin. Now it gets a little more complicated than I'm used to in terms of online slot payout -- there is a primary jackpot of 10,000 credits winnable from this slot machine and a secondary jackpot of 2,000, although the primary jackpot does require you to play all forty-five coin maximums on each spin. This adds up to a minimum investment of forty-five cents per hand. This number still comes in well within many player's budgets, and is probably the reason why the game still has loyal fans.

As for the theme -- it is admittedly pretty weak, especially when compared to the Tomb Raiders and So 80s machines available all over the net. Games these days are theme-heavy and must be so to attract big crowds, and the Thunderstruck online slot features a fairly tame theme: the Norse God of Lightning and Thunder, Thor. Thor is one of the most famous Norse Gods and he is represented in this particular slot machine through the symbols of the hammer, the fist, the castle, lightning and a horn. This is about as deep as the theme goes, although the graphics are top notch, as to be expected from Microgaming software. In addition to those symbols specific to the Norse God Thor, there are also symbols for Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten and Nine in order to round out the complete compliment of symbols necessary for play.

Thunderstruck slots is a prime example of a "typical video slot machine", with a one of a kind Nordic mythology theme that should be very pleasing to Thor -- trust me, you don't want to piss off the God of Thunder. A perfect game for those of us with smaller budgets for online slots. A forty-five cent investment for a 10,000 credit return fits my recession diet budget rather nicely.