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Pompeii is an Aristocrat slot you'll find on casino floors in two different cabinet generations -- the original single-screen Mark 6 upright and the later dual-screen Viridian reissue. It runs 243 ways to win, with a Mount Vesuvius wild that only erupts on reels 2 and 4. Land the gold-coin scatter and you get free spins.
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Pompeii is one of Aristocrat's most recognizable classic slot titles, built around Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii's volcanic history. It has shipped in two distinct physical cabinet generations -- the original single-screen Aristocrat Mark 6 upright and a later dual-screen Viridian reissue -- so the exact machine you find on a casino floor can look quite different depending on when it was installed. The game runs on a 243-ways-to-win format rather than fixed paylines, with a Mount Vesuvius wild and a gold-coin scatter that opens the free-spins round.
Aristocrat originally released Pompeii on its Mark 6 (MK6) cabinet platform, a single 19-inch LCD upright still found on some casino floors today. The game was later reissued on Aristocrat's Viridian cabinet, which uses two stacked LCD screens, a slimmer footprint, and a coinless bill acceptor instead of older coin mechanisms. Both versions run the same core game -- the difference is entirely in the physical hardware, not the paytable math -- so recognizing which cabinet generation you're looking at is a hardware-identification exercise, not a gameplay one. Aristocrat also makes a separate, newer game called "Pompeii Rising" in its Rising Series with different mechanics; that's not the same title as classic Pompeii.
Pompeii uses a 243-ways-to-win structure across five reels, meaning matching symbols pay out based on adjacent-reel combinations rather than fixed lines. The Mount Vesuvius wild symbol appears only on reels 2 and 4, where it carries its own multiplier -- a smaller one on reel 2 and a larger one on reel 4 -- so a wild landing on one of those two reels isn't worth the same as a wild on the other. A gold-coin scatter symbol triggers the free-spins bonus, in keeping with the classic ancient-world slot format Aristocrat has used across many titles from this era.
Pompeii dates back to the early 2000s based on period catalog listings, though public records on the exact original release year aren't fully consistent, making it one of the longer-running titles still actively tagged by players on modern casino-floor locator sites -- including a recent sighting at Bally's Atlantic City. Its RTP is commonly cited online in the mid-90% range, but as with most physical Aristocrat cabinets, the exact payback percentage is casino- and jurisdiction-configurable rather than fixed by the manufacturer, so no single number applies to every machine.
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