Legacy Retro Roller

Legacy Retro Roller: Slot Overview

Games Global, one of the elder powerhouses of the online gambling industry, does not drop slots with great regularity anymore, but for whatever reason, it decided the time was right to re-release Legacy, one of its older games originally brought out in the mid-noughties. The new version under review is Legacy Retro Roller, and it lives up to its name by offering an old-school, archaic, anachronistic way of having a punt.

Imagine Apple announcing it was going to start producing landlines, those ones with a dial you spin round and round to call somebody. Okay, maybe amongst certain analogue heads or nostalgia junkies, that would be a wet dream scenario, but wouldn't most peoples' eyes drift to their smartphones and wonder what the point was? Wonder was one emotion evoked by a look at Legacy Retro Roller. It just looks old and not in a 'hip' or interesting way. On the left is the active gaming area, made up of three reels which spin like a physical barrel. Next to the grid is monetary info down below, and paytable info sits on the right. That's about it.

Maybe high rollers will be attracted to Legacy Retro Roller's huge stake range? On the upper end, bets of $/€500 may be staked before going down to 10 c per spin at the lowest level. Volatility is high on the 95.75% RTP model, though lower return models have been designed, so that's something to be aware of. On the default RTP model, hits occur at a frequency of 23.72% along the game's 5 fixed paylines, where only combinations of 3-of-a-kind are possible.

For regular pay symbols, Legacy Retro Roller provides single Bars, double Bars, triple Bars, and 7s. A winning line made up of any kind of Bar symbol is worth 1x the bet, a line of 3 single Bars pays 2x the bet, a double Bar win is worth 8x the bet, a triple bar win pays 16x the bet, while a line of 7s is worth 32x the bet.

Legacy Retro Roller: Slot Features

Legacy Retro Roller doesn't really have much in the way of features. Bonus rounds, free spins? Forget about those. What it has got is a wild symbol. One thing making the wild symbol special is that it not only substitutes for any other symbol, thereby helping to complete winning lines, but when 1 wild is used in a combination, it applies an x2 multiplier to the win. If 2 wilds complete a winning combination, then the win is multiplied by x4.

In addition, since wilds appear on all reels, they are able to make their own winning combinations, which are the most valuable in Legacy Retro Roller. However, when a winning wild line is formed, these wins are not multiplied. Depending on the payline, a winning line of wild symbols is worth 320 to 480 times the bet.

Legacy Retro Roller: Slot Verdict

Before launching into a tirade, let's hear a paraphrased story about a guy called Kurt who works (or worked, the story is around a decade or so old) for the German military, taken from David Graeber's book 'Bullsh*t Jobs'. Kurt doesn't work directly for the military. He is actually employed by a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a subcontractor for the German military. Here's what happens when a soldier moves to a new office a few rooms down the hall. The soldier cannot move his computer there by himself. Instead, he fills a form which goes to the IT subcontractor, which is forwarded to the logistics subcontractor, which is then forwarded to Kurt's people.

Kurt then makes the journey, which could be up to 500 km away, by rental car, enters the barracks, lets dispatch know he arrived, fills in a form, loads the computer into a box once unhooked, seals the box, has someone from logistics to carry the box to the other room, unseals the box, fills out another form, hooks up the computer, calls dispatch to let them know how long it took, collects some signatures, drives home, sends dispatch the paperwork, then collects his payment. What would have taken one soldier seconds to walk a few metres, took two people, a drive of hours, and around 15 pages of paperwork to achieve, all at a cost of hundreds of Euros of taxpayers' cash.

Legacy Retro Roller felt about as frivolous as Kurt's story. Unless there is something hugely obvious we're missing, it's hard to grasp what the point of releasing Legacy Retro Roller was. Okay, players who want a blast from the past or high rollers looking for a pacey game might be tempted, maybe? Except that a few weeks before encountering Legacy Retro Roller, we reviewed Break da Bank Retro Roller, which is almost exactly the same. Just different names and colour schemes. The rest is the same old, faux physical land-based, three reels, low potential, low thrill meh. Games Global rarely arises from its slumber to squeeze out a slot, but if they are just going to be boring releases of old games like Legacy Retro Roller, bah, why bother?