Hot Shot is a baseball-themed video slot that captures the spirit of the old ball game. The ambient noise of the crowd really makes you feel like you're watching a baseball match. Traditional symbols like players, ketchup and fries, popcorn, and hot dogs cascade down the reels, hopefully scoring some big wins. This free game can be played for real money at any fine Microgaming casino.
Before playing Hot Shot, be sure to set your bet the way you like it. Use the plus and minus buttons under the coin to change your coin denomination. Available denominations range from 0.25 to 2.00. By default, the slot plays with all nine lines active, but you can press the Select Lines button to bet on fewer. To start, press Spin, or push Bet Max to instantly bet with all nine paylines active.
Unlike most other video slots, players don't need to hit a big feature or bonus round in order to win big. The scatters in this game do not result in anything other than a win added to the line wins. The Wild Ball will substitute for any line win, as well, increasing your odds of scoring some serious money. Hot Shot's sporty atmosphere and simple paytable make it a unique game that slot lovers ought to give a try.
Game Play
-/+: Change your coin denomination.
Select Lines: Choose how many lines to play on.
Spin: Spin with the selected number of active paylines.
Bet Max: Spin with all 9 paylines active.
Sometimes I wonder, why Microgaming even bother to release games for sports fans, but keeping most other players away from playing it. How so? Well, Take this Hot Shot game for example. It is just one of the several similar games in Microgaming's list of games. The game plays with 9 paylines, is a straightforward slot game without any additional frills added to it, meaning, there are no free spins, no bonus feature, no random feature, no anything. Yes, there are a small minority of players who prefer to play such straightforward games, but such games should be open for others to play too, right? Shouldn't Microgaming be aiming to get as many players to play all or any of their games? Then why oh why must the minimum starting bet per spin on this Hot Shot game be fixed at $2.25? It is way too high. It made me go "oh my god!" when I saw that, and I think it is totally ridiculous.
Okay, so sports fans are used to playing with big bets. Small bets are simply no fun. They cannot bring in big wins. Well, if this was the reasoning for fixing a high starting minimum bet, then this Hot Shot game, along with a few others more, are only meant for big time rollers, not for the small fishes in the open seas like me, who prefer to play with $0.30 bets or less. But for trying out sake, I sacrificed my $20 deposit just to be like a big time roller for a few minutes.
But first, a very quick run-through the paytable. The 'Wild Ball' is the Wild symbol. It doesn't pay, it doesn't double wins, it doesn't expand, it's a dumb Wild. The Trophy is the Scatter symbol and pays 100x the total bet for 5 of them, 50x for 4 Scatters, and 10x for 3 Scatters. Other symbols pay from 1000x to 50x the line bet for 5 of each kind. A very low paytable.
Well, I'm no big roller and I'm no hot shot either. My $20 deposit could only get me 8 spins on the game, but I managed to play 12 spins, if that's any achievement at all. The game is boring, the payout sucks and I don't like the high starting bet at all. Nosirree!