Gung Pow and Castle Builder, the two slots Crazy Vegas launched in January 2015

This article was first published in January 2015, when Crazy Vegas, a casino of the Vegas Partner Lounge group that no longer operates under that name, announced two new video slots distributed by Microgaming (Gung Pow and Castle Builder), with a reshaped welcome offer and a new lobby without download, and we keep it as a record of how novelties were presented. Two releases are merged here.

The two games, as the release described them

Gung Pow, a slot of the Chinese New Year with five reels and 243 "ways to win" (a combination pays when symbols fall on adjacent reels, whatever the row), was promised for 7 January 2015 on both the download software and the browser. The release recommended it to players "fond of games with plenty of action" and to those curious about a new culture, the words of every release.

Castle Builder was a fantasy game in which the player built and explored various kingdoms, with five reels and "a certain degree of nobleness", and the release suggested it to anyone whose "cup of tea" were monarchs, princes and princesses; it too ran on the download software and in the browser. The screenshot of its wedding scene shows the bonus in which, once a castle was complete, a suitor was chosen for the princess.

Both games, said the release, had much to offer in bonuses, free games and spins, and Harry von Schlussel (the casino's representative, quoted in every release) declared himself excited about a launch across the casino's "various platforms" and hoped that the players would "enjoy the benefits". The benefits of a slot are in its paytable, which neither release quoted, and the first thing we open in demo.

The new welcome offer and the lobby without download

The second release, undated but of the same months, presented a welcome offer built on "flexibility": up to 500 credits of bonus (dollars or euro at par) as a 100 per cent match that the player could take on one deposit or split over up to five "without forfeiting any of their bonus credits". Thirty free spins on a game that the release did not name completed the package.

The quote this time was personal, since Mr von Schlussel was "a fan of anything that makes life simpler and easier" for the players and of anything giving them "more freedom to do it their way", the freedom in question being the freedom to deposit five times instead of once. Freedom is a word that casinos use freely.

A player who split 500 into five deposits of 100 had five "wagering" clocks (one per bonus) to run instead of one, since each bonus usually carried its own multiple, so that the freedom to split was also the freedom to multiply the terms! The wagering (the bets required before a withdrawal) was in the terms, which nobody can read today, and decided whether the 500 were worth five deposits.

The same release unveiled a new "Instant Play" platform, called 1-Click, which let the players reach the casino's catalogue from the home page with no download, with game logos and a search box to find a title at once (novelties that you find in every lobby today). The catalogue counted more than 650 games, from baccarat and roulette to video slots, all by Microgaming.

The FreePlay stayed as the alternative (3,000 credits for sixty minutes, with "a portion of the winnings" to keep). The rest was the group's boilerplate: the "128-bit SSL" encryption, the support around the clock and the list of sister brands, Golden Riviera, Maple Casino and Casino-Mate, under the name of Vegas Partner Lounge (VPL), none of which we tested.

Seen from 2026

Crazy Vegas, Golden Riviera, Casino-Mate and Maple Casino were Microgaming casinos which no longer operate under those names, and none of them is among the operators we work with today; the five-deposit offer, the thirty spins and the FreePlay hour no longer exist. Microgaming's games passed to Games Global (in 2021-2022), and whether the two slots are still in every lobby is for the lobby to say.

Platinum Play, a casino of the same software, is where the images on this page lead (the link is an affiliate link, as the box above says). It is still among the operators we present, with a review that tells how we tried it in demo mode and what it offers today, since the terms on its own page prevail over anything printed here.

A player who wants the offers of today finds the no deposit bonuses on our world list and the current "free spins" on the free spins page, where you will read the figures before the adjectives. The other launches of those months, among them the three slots of Golden Riviera (February 2015) and the Gold Factory freeroll of the same January, are kept in our news archive.

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