Lucky 88 is an Aristocrat cabinet still placed on real casino floors, not just an online port. The base game tends to produce small, steady wins, and the real payoff comes from two separate bonus paths: a free-spins round where you pick a spin-count/multiplier tradeoff package, and a separate Dice Feature where you roll for the number 8.
Lucky 88
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Manufacturer: Aristocrat (branded Aristocrat Gaming), confirmed as manufacturer on URComped's physical-cabinet locator listing. aussiepokie.com separately credits the developer as 'Aristocrat Gaming Technologies Inc.'
Release: unknown exact year for the original physical cabinet. The MAME arcade-preservation database lists Lucky 88 as Aristocrat MK-7 hardware, but its Year field shows only the placeholder '200?', narrowing the release to the 2000s decade without confirming a specific year. aussiepokie.com states the physical version released in 2008 and an online RNG port followed in 2011, but this is a single secondary source rather than a confirmed date, so no single release year is treated as settled here.
Cabinet: Originally released on Aristocrat's MK6/MK-7 generation hardware circa the mid-to-late 2000s (per MAME arcade-preservation database, source file aristocrat/aristmk7.cpp; MAME's Year field shows only the placeholder '200?', not a confirmed year); currently sold/serviced as a refurbished unit on Aristocrat's later Helix cabinet (per slotmachinesltd.com listing, 'a popular Helix title') and on the Viridian cabinet with dual LCD screens (per ohioriverslots.com listing). Multi-denomination, coinless, with a bill acceptor for $1-$100 notes; configurable as handpay-with-reset-key or TITO ticket printer per refurbisher listings.
RTP: unknown for the physical land-based cabinet -- Aristocrat does not publish a single land-based RTP for this class of configurable cabinet. Online-adaptation review sites report a wide, non-converging range: penny-slot-machines.com states 96.6% with the game's 'Extra Choice' side-bet feature enabled versus 87.9% with it disabled; casinos.com reports 96.6% without specifying Extra Choice status; freeslotshub.com reports 97%. Because these figures diverge, no single authoritative physical-cabinet RTP is reported here.
Mechanic: standard
Known quirks
penny-slot-machines.com warns that Lucky 88's return rate depends on an optional side-bet toggle: 'Always play with Extra Choice enabled to get the best return from Lucky 88,' since leaving the Extra Choice feature off drops the published RTP from 96.6% to 87.9%.
Lucky 88 is a confirmed, currently-tracked physical land-based cabinet: URComped's slot-machine locator page shows it tagged 64 times by community members, with a recent sighting logged at Mohegan Sun.
A related URComped tag-archive page for the same machine shows player-submitted sightings and jackpot/line-hit posts at Valley Forge Casino Resort and Golden Nugget Biloxi, including a documented $1,673.00 hand-pay win on a $1.00-denomination machine.
Recognition clues
Wild symbol is a Chinese Emperor figure that substitutes for all symbols except the scatter and can award a random multiplier of 2x to 88x
Scatter symbol is described as a red lantern; three or more trigger the free-spins bonus
Currently found on Aristocrat's Helix cabinet or the Viridian cabinet, which has dual LCD screens
Multi-denomination, coinless cabinet with a bill acceptor for $1-$100 notes
Photo checklist
Full cabinet shot showing whether it's on the Helix or Viridian cabinet frame and screen layout
Close-up of the paytable showing the Chinese Emperor wild symbol and the red lantern scatter symbol
The bill acceptor slot and the Extra Choice side-bet control, since Extra Choice status changes the return
A screen capture of the free-spins package-selection screen or the Dice Feature bonus, if triggered