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Outback Jack

Outback Jack is a 2005 Aristocrat title on the original MK6/MAV500 upright cabinet, still turning up on real casino floors and distinct from the newer portrait-cabinet sequel 'Outback Jack: Adventures Down Under.' A randomly-awarded jackpot card feature can hand you one of two progressive jackpots, and the bonus rounds flash distinctive Australian slang like 'Good onya' and 'She's all apples.'

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Fact sheet

  • Manufacturer: Aristocrat (cabinet-glass credit: Aristocrat Leisure Industries Pty, Ltd.; corporate parent Aristocrat Leisure Limited of Australia). Aristocrat is a separate, independent company from Light & Wonder (formerly Bally/WMS/SG Gaming/Scientific Games) -- the two are documented adversaries in a 2024-2025 trade-secrets lawsuit/settlement, not corporate affiliates.
  • Release: 2005
  • Cabinet: Aristocrat MK6 / MAV500 (also called MKVI) hardware platform -- an upright, 5-reel, 30-payline video slot cabinet with dual monitors (a 640x480 main screen plus a bottom LCD touchscreen) and physical bet buttons for 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 credits. Confirmed sold as a standalone upright unit by used-equipment dealer Gambler's Oasis USA. A separate, later Aristocrat title sharing the name -- 'Outback Jack: Adventures Down Under' -- runs on the different VERVE hd portrait cabinet (31.5-inch portrait LCD) with different bonus features; that is a distinct product from the 2005 MK6/MAV500 cabinet documented here and is out of scope for this record.
  • RTP: unknown for the physical land-based cabinet -- no official Aristocrat-published RTP or regulatory filing was found. A generic online-slots aggregator (rocketplay-game.com) surfaced a boilerplate '~95%' figure, but it reflects that site's platform-wide average across thousands of games rather than a paytable-sourced figure specific to Outback Jack, so it is not reported as a real RTP here.
  • Mechanic: standard

Known quirks

  • Development trivia: the game was originally designed so players would select their bonus feature by touching an icon on a road map, with seven features to choose from -- but a fish-themed 'Mystery Island' feature was cut before release, and in the shipped game the bonus feature isn't actually player-selectable at all; it's awarded randomly.
  • The six random bonus rounds that shipped are named Fishing Spot, Winding River, Big Rock, Great Sandy Desert, Gold Mine, and Nippy Surf.
  • The game's bonus-selection logic tends to favor the 'Fishing Spot' and 'Big Rock' features most often, and those two are described as having the lowest credit prizes of the six bonus rounds (Fishing Spot can even pay zero if nothing matches during its seven free games).
  • During bonus features the cabinet displays Australian slang phrases including 'Sheer brilliance', 'Good onya', 'Howzat', 'Your blood's worth bottling', and 'She's all apples' -- distinctive on-screen text useful for identifying this specific machine from a photo or video clip.
  • URComped's physical slot-machine locator confirms real land-based sightings of Outback Jack, with community members tagging it at named properties including Jackson Rancheria Casino & Hotel (tagged May 5, 2025) and a Hollywood Casino property.

Recognition clues

  • Aristocrat MK6 / MAV500 upright cabinet with dual monitors -- a 640x480 main screen plus a bottom LCD touchscreen
  • Boomerang wild symbol and Australia-map scatter symbol on the reels
  • Physical bet buttons for 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 credits below the screen
  • Australian slang like 'Good onya', 'Howzat', and 'She's all apples' flashing on screen during bonus features
  • A randomly-awarded bonus round naming one of six destinations: Fishing Spot, Big Rock, Winding River, Great Sandy Desert, Gold Mine, or Nippy Surf

Photo checklist

  • Full cabinet shot showing the dual-monitor MK6/MAV500 upright shape
  • Close-up of the boomerang wild and Australia-map scatter symbols on the reels
  • The bet-button panel (1/2/3/5/10 credits) and bottom LCD touchscreen
  • A screen capture of the bonus round name banner, if one is showing
  • The progressive jackpot display during the card feature, if it's active

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