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Pompeii
Pompeii is an Aristocrat slot you'll find on casino floors in two different cabinet generations -- the original single-screen Mark 6 upright and the later dual-screen Viridian reissue. It runs 243 ways to win, with a Mount Vesuvius wild that only erupts on reels 2 and 4. Land the gold-coin scatter and you get free spins.
Fact sheet
- Manufacturer: Aristocrat (branded Aristocrat on the physical cabinet glass, confirmed on both the original Mark 6 unit and the later Viridian reissue; sold today as Aristocrat Gaming, part of Aristocrat Leisure Limited). Note: Aristocrat also publishes a separate, newer 'Pompeii Rising' game (Rising Series) with different mechanics -- this record covers only the classic Mark 6/Viridian cabinet.
- Release: 2001 per arcade-history.com's catalog entry (title: "Pompeii (2001) - Slot Machine (video) by Aristocrat Leisure Industries Pty, Ltd."), which also describes Aristocrat MKVI (Mark 6) hardware -- consistent with retailer listings confirming Pompeii's original release was on Aristocrat's Mark 6 cabinet generation. The arcade-history.com page (and its site root) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so its content could not be directly re-fetched; independent review corroborated the page is live and on-topic via two separate web searches surfacing the exact page title and matching paraphrased detail, but no source fully independent of arcade-history.com was found for the exact year 2001.
- Cabinet: Originally released on the Aristocrat Mark 6 (MK6/MKVI) cabinet with a single 19-inch LCD screen (per slotmachinesltd.com), multi-denomination (primarily penny, some nickel), bet range 25-200 credits; later reissued on the Aristocrat Viridian (MK7) cabinet with dual LCD screens, a slimmer footprint, and a coinless bill acceptor for $1-$100 notes (per ohioriverslots.com). It is unconfirmed whether Pompeii specifically ships as a named 'Mr. Cashman' variant -- ohioriverslots.com only confirms that Aristocrat's Mr. Cashman series is available across many game themes on the Viridian cabinet generally, not that Pompeii is one of them.
- RTP: ~95.45% is the figure repeated across numerous online-slot review/affiliate sites (e.g. AskGamblers), but no gaming-commission filing or Aristocrat technical datasheet was found confirming this for the physical land-based cabinet specifically -- RTP on this class of multi-denomination Aristocrat cabinet is typically casino/jurisdiction-configurable, so the 95.45% figure should be treated as the commonly-cited online/RNG-equivalent number rather than a confirmed single land-based setting.
- Mechanic: standard
Known quirks
- Pompeii is a confirmed, currently-tracked physical land-based cabinet: URComped's slot-machine locator page shows it tagged by community members 74 times, with the most recent sighting logged at Bally's Atlantic City Casino Resort.
- Pompeii has shipped in at least two visually distinct real cabinet generations -- the original single-screen Aristocrat Mark 6 upright and a later dual-LCD Aristocrat Viridian reissue -- meaning the physical machine's on-floor appearance can differ depending on when and where the specific unit was installed.
Recognition clues
- Aristocrat branding on the cabinet glass -- look for either the single-screen Mark 6 upright or the dual-screen Viridian reissue
- On the Mark 6 version, a single 19-inch LCD screen; on the Viridian version, two stacked LCD screens and a slimmer cabinet footprint
- A coinless bill acceptor taking $1 to $100 notes on the Viridian cabinet
- Mount Vesuvius wild symbol that appears only on reels 2 and 4 -- a 3x multiplier on reel 2, 5x on reel 4
- Gold-coin scatter symbols that trigger the free-spins bonus
Photo checklist
- Full cabinet shot showing which generation you're looking at -- single-screen Mark 6 or dual-screen Viridian
- Close-up of the title glass or top box confirming the Aristocrat branding
- The reels if the Mount Vesuvius wild lands on reel 2 or reel 4
- A screen capture of the gold-coin scatter trigger and the free-spins bonus screen, if you catch it
- The paytable, if the machine lets you open it, to confirm the 243-ways structure
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