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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Manufacturer: Aristocrat (branded Aristocrat on the physical cabinet glass, confirmed on both the original Mark 6 unit and the later Viridian reissue; sold today as Aristocrat Gaming, part of Aristocrat Leisure Limited). Note: Aristocrat also publishes a separate, newer 'Pompeii Rising' game (Rising Series) with different mechanics -- this record covers only the classic Mark 6/Viridian cabinet.
Release: 2001 per arcade-history.com's catalog entry (title: "Pompeii (2001) - Slot Machine (video) by Aristocrat Leisure Industries Pty, Ltd."), which also describes Aristocrat MKVI (Mark 6) hardware -- consistent with retailer listings confirming Pompeii's original release was on Aristocrat's Mark 6 cabinet generation. The arcade-history.com page (and its site root) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so its content could not be directly re-fetched; independent review corroborated the page is live and on-topic via two separate web searches surfacing the exact page title and matching paraphrased detail, but no source fully independent of arcade-history.com was found for the exact year 2001.
Cabinet: Originally released on the Aristocrat Mark 6 (MK6/MKVI) cabinet with a single 19-inch LCD screen (per slotmachinesltd.com), multi-denomination (primarily penny, some nickel), bet range 25-200 credits; later reissued on the Aristocrat Viridian (MK7) cabinet with dual LCD screens, a slimmer footprint, and a coinless bill acceptor for $1-$100 notes (per ohioriverslots.com). It is unconfirmed whether Pompeii specifically ships as a named 'Mr. Cashman' variant -- ohioriverslots.com only confirms that Aristocrat's Mr. Cashman series is available across many game themes on the Viridian cabinet generally, not that Pompeii is one of them.
RTP: ~95.45% is the figure repeated across numerous online-slot review/affiliate sites (e.g. AskGamblers), but no gaming-commission filing or Aristocrat technical datasheet was found confirming this for the physical land-based cabinet specifically -- RTP on this class of multi-denomination Aristocrat cabinet is typically casino/jurisdiction-configurable, so the 95.45% figure should be treated as the commonly-cited online/RNG-equivalent number rather than a confirmed single land-based setting.
Mechanic: standard
Known quirks
Pompeii is a confirmed, currently-tracked physical land-based cabinet: URComped's slot-machine locator page shows it tagged by community members 74 times, with the most recent sighting logged at Bally's Atlantic City Casino Resort.
Pompeii has shipped in at least two visually distinct real cabinet generations -- the original single-screen Aristocrat Mark 6 upright and a later dual-LCD Aristocrat Viridian reissue -- meaning the physical machine's on-floor appearance can differ depending on when and where the specific unit was installed.
Recognition clues
Aristocrat branding on the cabinet glass -- look for either the single-screen Mark 6 upright or the dual-screen Viridian reissue
On the Mark 6 version, a single 19-inch LCD screen; on the Viridian version, two stacked LCD screens and a slimmer cabinet footprint
A coinless bill acceptor taking $1 to $100 notes on the Viridian cabinet
Mount Vesuvius wild symbol that appears only on reels 2 and 4 -- a 3x multiplier on reel 2, 5x on reel 4
Gold-coin scatter symbols that trigger the free-spins bonus
Photo checklist
Full cabinet shot showing which generation you're looking at -- single-screen Mark 6 or dual-screen Viridian
Close-up of the title glass or top box confirming the Aristocrat branding
The reels if the Mount Vesuvius wild lands on reel 2 or reel 4
A screen capture of the gold-coin scatter trigger and the free-spins bonus screen, if you catch it
The paytable, if the machine lets you open it, to confirm the 243-ways structure