Golden Era, Cricket Star and Loaded, the three slots Golden Riviera launched in February 2015
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Golden Riviera, a casino that no longer exists under that name and that belonged then to Vegas Partner Lounge, announced in February 2015 three video slots of Microgaming for the same day, 4 February (Golden Era, Cricket Star and Loaded). We keep it in the past tense, with an older release on the casino's mobile version merged below, to show how a house of 2015 sold three games together.
Three slots for "the month of romance"
February being "the month of romance", the release said, there was "something for the romantics", a new game for those who followed sport and the return of a popular classic in HD, which is how a casino of 2015 tied three unrelated slots into one story. The story was the casino's. The figures below are the only part you need to keep today.
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Golden Era carried the players to the golden age of Hollywood on five reels and fifteen paylines (the lines along which a combination had to fall), with wilds and scatters that opened a choice between free spins with "Merging Wild Reels", a feature named and not explained, and a "Double Feature Bonus" in which the player picked. The release called the base game a classic, a word that, in the texts we keep, meant that nothing in it was new.
Cricket Star came just ahead of the biggest events in international cricket (the World Cup of 2015, hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February), on a grid of five reels by three rows with 243 "ways to win", the format of like symbols paying on neighbouring reels in any row. Its "Rolling Reels" ran in the base game and in the free spins, where the multiplier climbed to ten times, if you got that far.
Loaded, the hip-hop slot (five reels and twenty-five paylines) "from bling to pimped-out cars", came back "faithfully recreated in HD" with its functionality modernised to match the games of the new generation; a remake sells the old paytable in new clothes, and the release did not say whether the return had changed it. Three games, one date, not one figure.
Thirty free spins and $1,400 in three ceilings
New players were promised up to $1,400 across the first three deposits (the same numbers were printed in euro), the first deposit at 100 per cent, the second at 25 and the third at 50, with the ceilings of $150, $500 and $750 that the casino had already used in November 2014. Thirty "free spins" on "a leading game" that the release did not name came on top.
The 25 per cent of the second step reached its $500 cap only with a deposit of $2,000, so that the middle tier was written for the high rollers, and a player who put $200 on it received $50 of credits, which is the arithmetic behind a headline of $1,400! The "wagering" (the total that had to be wagered before the winnings could be withdrawn) sat in the terms, which the release did not quote.
The cashier listed credit cards and web wallets, the data travelled under the "128-bit SSL" encryption that the release called a standard "also employed by banks", and a multilingual support team stood by at any hour; we pass on the claims in the casino's words, since Golden Riviera, a Vegas Partner Lounge (VPL) house like Casino-Mate, Crazy Vegas and Maple Casino, was never tested.
The older text: a casino for the iPhone
An earlier release, undated in our archive, announced the mobile casino of Golden Riviera: software in HTML5 (nothing to download), an automatic detection of the telephone, availability "currently only on Apple/iOS devices", and a "3-tier match bonus" of up to $500 on the first three deposits for those who registered from a handset. Mobile meant the iPhone in those years, which the release said without the least embarrassment.
The banking methods were Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Neteller, Ukash and Click2Pay (the last two have since left the market, which dates the text), and a Contact Centre answered day and night, seven days a week, as on the desktop. The mobile casino, the release said, brought "the same elegance and sophistication" of the brand to fit in the palms of the players' hands.
What is left of the three games and of the casino
Golden Riviera and the sister houses named above no longer trade under those names, and none of them is on our lists, so the $1,400, the thirty spins and the bonus by handset are figures of 2015 that nobody can claim. The three slots went over to Games Global when the Microgaming games business was separated (2021-2022), and a casino only on iOS is unthinkable now that every lobby opens in any browser.
Where the four screenshots lead is Platinum Play, by way of an affiliate link (see the disclosure above), a Microgaming house that was not part of VPL and that we continue to list; it never offered the $1,400 or the thirty spins. Our review of Platinum Play, the product of a session without deposit in "demo", holds the terms it applies at present, which take precedence over this page.
Today's bonuses without deposit are on our world list, and the free spins page tells you how to read the figures before the adjectives. The Max Damage release (November 2014) and the two games that Crazy Vegas brought out in January 2015 are in the news archive with the rest of that winter's launches.
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