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Bonus Times is a real Bally S9000 cabinet, not a video slot: three physical reels under a top-mounted screen, chrome trim, and 2x/5x/10x multiplier symbols that scale up whatever lines up on the single payline. There's no bonus round or feature screen here -- every payout comes straight off the line hits, which is part of why Know Your Slots calls it 'sufficiently volatile.' Some floors also run it with a standalone progressive jackpot bolted on, and identical machines a few feet apart can show wildly different progressive amounts -- so check the meter before you assume it matches the cabinet next to it.
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Bonus Times is a real electromechanical slot machine, not a video game dressed up to look like one. Built by Bally (Bally Technologies) on the Alpha 1 S9000 upright cabinet, it pairs three physical spinning reels with a top-mounted LCD monitor, chrome trim, and a mostly black cabinet body. There's no bonus round, feature screen, or free-spins mode here -- every payout comes straight from matching symbols across a single payline, with 2x, 5x, and 10x multiplier icons doing the scaling. It's a throwback design that still turns up on casino floors today.
The Bally Alpha 1 S9000 upright cabinet is roughly 52 inches tall with chrome trim over a mostly black body, and a top-mounted LCD monitor sits above three real, physically spinning reels -- not a video screen simulating them. The base configuration is a single payline (five-line versions also exist), and current secondary-market units accept only bill validator notes from $1 to $100, with no coin tray. It runs on standard household current, which is part of why it's remained easy to place on smaller floors and in private collections.
There's no bonus round, pick screen, or feature trigger anywhere in Bonus Times -- every win comes from symbols lining up across the payline itself. The 2x, 5x, and 10x symbols are the entire game: when one lands as part of a winning combination, it multiplies that combination's payout. One gaming review site, Know Your Slots, has described the base non-progressive version as 'sufficiently volatile' and a 'somewhat tough but exciting three-reel game' -- a fair description of a machine with nothing to smooth out the swings between hits.
Some casino floors bolt a standalone progressive jackpot meter onto Bonus Times cabinets. Because it's standalone rather than linked across a bank of machines, two identical Bonus Times cabinets sitting side by side can show completely different jackpot totals -- one might have just reset while its neighbor has been climbing for weeks. It's worth checking the meter on the specific machine in front of you rather than assuming it matches the one next to it.
Bonus Times still carries the Bally name on the cabinet, even though the corporate lineage has since passed through Scientific Games to Light & Wonder -- a change in parent company, not a rebrand of the physical machine. It typically shows up at multiple denominations, quarters on lower-limit floors and dollar units in high-limit rooms, and it remains available on the secondary slot-machine market for collectors and smaller operators.
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