We’ve recently seen lots of classic slot symbols appearing on the latest slots. You know what we mean, fruits, cherries, lucky number 7s, bars – all the symbols we used to find on old school fruit machines. Now they’re making a resurgence on modern day slots. But have they ever really gone away? We think not. As part of slot history, these symbols will always have a place and just as every form of entertainment revisits the past, we expect slots to do the same.

Classic Slots Symbols, Classy Slots Experience

Microgaming has shown us how revisiting the classic slots symbols works well, not least in the studio’s links with indie slots developers like JFTW. The duo’s Sidewinder slot gives us all the traditional symbols, including Bars, Four Leaf Clovers, Horseshoes, Golden Bells and Lucky Red Sevens. All presented in glorious 8-bit graphics across five reels and 243 Ways to Win, this unique slot has three Wilds and lets the Ways to Win expand to 1,125! Now that’s how to enjoy a classic.

Microgaming utilised a similarly classic feel on Deco Diamonds, another slot born of its collaboration with Just For The Win. This time round, the traditional symbols are given a major makeover with a cartoon type look. It definitely doesn’t look old nor feel old. And with the chance to win 1,000 times our stake for landing the lucky Deco Diamond symbol five times on a payline, it’s another classic-inspired slot that deserves classic status.

When Old Meets New

By teaming up with Just For The Win on Sidewinder and Deco Diamonds, Microgaming gifts us with two brilliant slots. They both play on the classic look and feel, use familiar symbols but for two similar slots, they’re presented and play very differently. And they’re both pretty awesome too.