Slot Machine

The **Slot Machine** is a hidden "minigame" in *Micro Tanks*. It is accessed by clicking on the 5x2 cluster of Metal Crates on the right hand side of the Main Menu.

It is operated using Medals and works like a typical slot machine in a casino. It is a way to attempt to get medals faster, but like all forms of gambling, it is more likely you will lose medals. It can also be used to get Gems without beating the Main Campaign.

## Gameplay

The slot machine features three slots with rapidly rotating icons. The "room" simply features a red ribbon background, the 3 cycling slots, a "SPIN" button, and at the bottom, + and - buttons to select how many medals to bet. By default, the bet is 10 medals but this can be increased to 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, and 1000 medals by pressing the + key. Likewise, the - key can be used to lower the value of the bet.

Once the player has selected their desired number of medals to bet, they press the "SPIN" button, which disappears and is replaced with a "STOP" button. A few seconds later, the slots stop rapidly cycling their icons, and display the icon the slot "stopped" at. The final configuration of the three slots determines what prize, if any, the player wins. The vast likelihood is a configuration will be selected that results in winning nothing. However, it is not so unlikely that the player could end up winning back multiple times their bet.

After the game displays how many medals you bet and how many medals you won, or lost, you can once again select your number of medals to bet and spin again.

There are 10 icons featured in the Slot game. They are as follows:

* Shield (+)
* One-Up (+)
* Silver Medallion (+)
* Golden Medallion (+)
* Royal Medallion (+)
* Gem (+)
* Sandbag (-)
* Cracked Crate (-)
* Royal Tank (-)
* Dead Player X (-)

The first 6 icons in the above list give paybacks and positive effects, whereas the bottom 4 give nothing or negative effects.

If any two of the three slots, once stopped, display the same positive icon, the player will win some medals back. They will at the very least break even (2 shields). If all three of the slots display the same positive icon, the prizes are larger, and the player could win up to 20 times their bet (3 royal medallions). However, if 2 or even all 3 of the slots display a negative icon, such as a Sandbag or Cracked Crate, no prize will be won. In addition, the Royal Tank has the power to void any win - for example, if two slots were a silver medallion and the third was a royal tank, where the 2 silver medallions would normally result in winning back 1.5 times the bet, they would instead get nothing. Getting multiple Dead Player X icons results in the player losing medals.

In a special case, if the slots display one of each medallion type - 1 silver, 1 gold, 1 royal - in any order, the player will win back 10 times their bet.

## Trivia

* As soon as you press "Spin", the game has already chosen what the "stopped" icons will be. This means it does not matter when you press "Stop", and you cannot time it or predict for it to land on any particular icon from the time you press "Stop".
* Originally, there were going to be TNT Crate, Rainbow Bullet, and BOOM icons too.
* Cinnabar originally created the slot machine as a joke.
* If you lose medals through the Dead Player X, you can go into the negative medals.