Paco and the Popping Peppers Slots
Welcome to Paco and the Popping Peppers, a super fun and colourful online video slot game with a food and Mexican festival theme which was crafted and released by well renowned software developers Betsoft Gaming back in February 2011.
Betsoft are true pioneers in the igaming industry and a few reasons for their longevity is they bring marvellous and cinematic gaming experiences with top notch animation and great sound effects across a a diverse number of genres, winning and engaging bonus features and instant mobile compatibility so players can enjoy seamless play from wherever and whenever they are. Player popular slots include Sugar Pop, At the Copa, Good Girl, Bad Girl, Quest to the West and Gypsy Rose to name just a few.
Betsoft have excelled providing players with a memorable gaming experience where the chubby Paco plays the leading role and where with his fiery peppers and other characters like a pineapple, tomatoes, chillies and garlic he attempts to breathe life into a dusty old town south of the border in Mexico. Dazzling 3D animations, a pop multiplier feature, a cascading reel gaming mechanic to help augment winning combinations, a maximum win potential of 99,465$ and a fiesty beach hut bonus round are just some of the amazing benefits that bring excitement and wins to the gameplay.
At Paco and the Popping Peppers slot, players are presented with a gaming grid of 5 reels, 3 rows and 30 adjustable paylines where they will need to match at least three to five identical and matching symbols on an active payline for wins and payouts are awarded from the left to the right with only the highest win per bet paid. Players can keep a beady eye out for the Pinata wild symbol as matching these symbols will award payouts of up to 2,500x their bet/wager.
Paco and the Popping Peppers slot presents very simple to understand and intuitive gameplay. Firstly, punters will need to set their wagers to begin spinning the reels. A wide betting range starts from a minimum of 0.02$ per spin and moves to 150.00$ for the maximum bet per spin. For players who are conscious of maintaining a set gaming budget or for those that do not like to manually spin the reels and sit back a bit there is an autoplay option which allows them to preset up to 100 automatic spins they wish to game with.
The Return to Player Percentage (RTP) is 94.29% and this game plays at medium volatility which means that players can look forward to a steady mix of guaranteed small to medium sized wins.
The visuals and colourful 3D animations are truly cinematic with a catchy Mexican themed soundtrack and a fabulous opening scene that puts players right into the action with the merry Paco who is quite a character and who appears regularly to the side of the reels where he is sometimes seen taking a siesta or animating players with a tune from his trusty guitar.
Paco and the Popping Peppers is a cascading slot game which means that symbols fall from above into place onto the reels and when wins are created the symbols that created the wins explode to make new winning combinations. On the right hand side of the reels a Pop Multiplier is seen and this increases every time a winning combination of three or more winning combinations are made. If a winning combination is created from the new symbols that fall down then the players will win the multiplier shown on the Multiplier meter and this multiplier can go right up to a maximum of 10x.
The gaming symbols at Paco and the Popping Peppers slot feature all the ingredients to make a perfect Mexican salsa so we have pineapples, tomatoes, coconuts, a red chilli pepper, a green pepper, garlic and onion. The donkey pinata is the wild symbol which can appear on any reel and substitutes for any other symbol except for the scatter symbol which is shown as the wooden beach hut. This wild symbol brings its own payouts and can instantly reward players with 16.66x their total wager for five on a payline. The Pinata in Mexican culture it is normally a decorative container or a toy donkey filled with sweets or other gifts and hung from a high point up a branch of a tree and hit with a stick or pre attached strings are pulled to release all the goodies inside. Originally, pinatas were decorative clay pots filled with fruits.
The highest paying symbol in the base game of Paco and the Popping Peppers slot game is the pineapple and five of a kind award players a nice 6.66x their total bet. The tomato is worth 5x for five of a kind with the onion providing 3.33x players total bet and the green pepper offers 1.66x bet. The lower paying symbols are the red pepper and the garlic and five of a kind of these will earn players a maximum win of 0.83x their total bet.
The Fiesta Bonus round feature is triggered when three or more of the Beach Hut scatters land on the reels. This offers players a chance to multiply their winnings and earn even more additional cash prizes. The gameplay in this bonus game moves to the playa and the fun and excitement continues as players guess whether a winning card is higher or lower than the previous one to either win a prize and see their winnings doubled or lose. Every time players guess correctly Paco wearing his straw hat celebrates with a beer and players have a total of three times to guess.
Paco and the Popping Peppers slot game is fully mobile optimized. Players can enjoy gaming on the go as this game can be played through either a desktop or from a modern compatible device such as a smartphone or tablet using Android, Apple iOS or Samsung.