Push Gaming · 2022
Retro Tapes is a high volatility video slot by Push Gaming, played on a 6x9 grid with cluster wins and free spins. Check the figures first.
Choose Retro Tapes if you want a music and neon theme with cluster wins instead of paylines. Push Gaming built this video slot on a 6x9 Cluster Link grid. A win needs five or more adjacent symbols of the same cassette. When a win forms, those symbols disappear, the grid collapses and new symbols can form the next win in the same spin.
Look at the Top Charts Feature because it sets Retro Tapes apart from a plain cluster game. Three or more Wild Tape Symbols that land anywhere start it, and more symbols give more free spins. Carried-over Wild Tape and Instant Prize symbols stick while empty positions fill, then the round completes on its own. How often the feature lands is not known in advance.
Seven rows, plain terms
After this table you can read every Retro Tapes figure before you set a bet.
| Game detail | Reads as |
|---|---|
| Provider | Push Gaming |
| RTP | 96.47% / 96.71% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid size | 6x9 |
| Max win, times bet | x10,000 |
| Max win at highest bet | A$1,000,000 |
| Release date | 23/11/2022 |
Retro Tapes payouts
Payouts below are cash amounts at A$0.40 per spin, and each extra symbol in the cluster lifts the total.
| Symbol | 12+ | 14+ | 17+ | 20+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Red cassette | A$10 | A$40 | A$80 | A$400 |
 Orange cassette | A$5 | A$20 | A$40 | A$200 |
 Pink cassette | A$2 | A$3 | A$6 | A$10 |
 Green cassette | A$2 | A$3 | A$6 | A$10 |
 Light-blue cassette | A$0.40 | A$0.80 | A$1.20 | A$2 |
 Grey cassette | A$0.40 | A$0.80 | A$1.20 | A$2 |
Round guide
Settle one worry here: how the wild tape round begins and where the paid rounds stop.
Land 3 or more Wild Tape Symbols anywhere and Top Charts starts with 6, 8, 10 or 12 Free Spins for 3, 4, 5 or 6 symbols. Wild Tape and Instant Prize symbols you already have stick, and empty positions keep filling until none remain.
Base gameWild tapes
The Singles Feature opens for 100x your base bet, which reads A$100 at a A$0.40 stake, and can bring up to 6 Wild Tape Symbols converted during the round. Its RTP of 96.71% is the higher of the two versions attached to this game.
Session startSingles round
The Hits Feature costs 400x your base bet, so A$400 at a A$0.40 stake, and can convert up to 6 Wild Tape Symbols with one guaranteed Wild Multiplier Symbol carrying a random value. Its RTP sits at 96.71%, matching the Singles round.
Session startHits round
Play opens on a 6 column by 9 row Cluster Link grid, where 5 or more adjacent copies of a symbol pay and then collapse away for new ones to fall in. This path runs at 96.47% RTP, with wins capped at 10,000x your current bet.
Opening spinCascades
Screen Set
You will have watched a full round play out before staking anything yourself.
Know Each Stage
Spirit Casino lays out each stage in plain terms, so nothing about a round surprises you.
Pick a stake anywhere from A$0.10 to A$100 before anything else. Our examples use A$0.40 to A$1, but the glass grid plays the same at every level.
Settle in and watch the 6x9 Cluster Link grid. Five or more identical cassettes touching in a cluster pay out, then vanish and collapse, and fresh reels drop into the gaps.
Play on and Wild Tape symbols can drop, standing in for any cassette and carrying a multiplier. Sticky Wilds stay put through tumbles, lifting the chance of a longer chain.
Watch for three or more Wild Tape symbols landing anywhere. That opens the Top Charts Feature with free spins, and every empty spot refills until the board runs dry.
Decide on a spending limit and a stopping point before the first spin. Reaching either one ends the session cleanly, whatever the reels are doing.
Each bonus buy costs a fixed multiple of your bet, so its price in money rises and falls with your stake, shown below at A$1.
| Feature | Total stake | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Free Spins (Singles Feature) | x100 · A$100 | – |
| Super Free Spins (Hits Feature) | x400 · A$400 | – |
Think of the RTP as a long-run average: per A$100 staked, it is the share returned to players, not what one session pays out. The version Spirit Casino runs is shown in the game rules.
| Payout level | RTP | Yes or no |
|---|---|---|
| Edition 1 | 96.71% | No |
| Edition 2 | 96.47% | Yes |
Count the Wild Tape Symbols, not the minutes: no one can say how often three or more of them land, and each session stands alone. The 96.47 per cent return describes a long run of spins, not the next twenty you take. Treat every round as a fresh random draw, whatever the last one did.
Scroll to the game rules before you stake anything, because the return figure depends on which version our lobby loads and that number is stated there. Two configurations exist for this slot, and the difference between them is small but real, so the rules screen is the only honest place to check which one you are playing.
Read 10,000 times your stake as a ceiling, not a plan. The grid can fill to the last position in the Top Charts Feature and still finish well short of it, and most rounds end nowhere near the number. Budget for the ordinary spins and let the improbable one look after itself.
Zero cost to look
Settles the difference between the free preview and the paid round before you commit.
Spinning the preview costs nothing and returns nothing. Playing for real needs an account with Spirit Casino and puts you at 18 or over.
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Set a budget for the session before the first spin, and stop when it is gone.
Pick your stop point before the session, and keep it after a win as well as after a loss.
Set deposit and loss limits in your account before you play, so you decide while calm rather than mid-session.
When the game stops being fun, take a pause, and step away for a while before you return.
Before the reels turn
Most worries here are about how big a win can get and what each bet costs.
The maximum win is 10,000 times the bet. At the top example bet of A$1 that is A$10,000, and at the highest bet of A$100 it is A$1,000,000.
High volatility means results swing widely from spin to spin and from session to session. Nobody can know in advance how often a big win or the bonus will land.
The lowest bet is A$0.10 and the highest is A$100. Bets of A$0.40, A$0.50 and A$1 are used as examples in the tables below, not as limits.
Buying Free Spins costs 100 times the bet, and Super Free Spins cost 400 times the bet. At a bet of A$1 that is A$100 and A$400, so check the total before you confirm.
All three titles share the same maximum win of 10,000 times the bet. The RTP is what separates them, and RetroVerse sits lowest in the series. Retro Tapes has two RTP versions, one for the base game and one for the features.
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