Blue Guru Games Launches St.Louis 1904 – A Slot Inspired by True Events

In a recent turn of events, Relax Gaming partner, Blue Guru Games, has launched an incredible online slot inspired by one of the craziest marathons to ever take place in US history.

The St. Louis 1904 is a slot with quite a tale to tell – that of the St. Louis Olympic marathon. The marathon became notorious for the horrific conditions and the peculiar occurrences that ensued.

The back story is that the marathon took place on a hot, humid day, over a dusty path with some of the runners never having run a marathon before. If this wasn’t enough, only 14 of the participants actually managed to finish the race.

Some backed out due to exhaustion, one of them stopped to eat some apples and ended up feeling sick, one was chased off by stray dogs and the first to come to the finish line was disqualified as it turned out he hitched a ride in a car for most of the race. The race is even crazier than it sounds, with just one water stop at the 12-mile mark.

The team at Blue Guru Games is paying homage to this curious marathon and incorporates some of the most peculiar details in the St. Louis 1904 slot. In addition to the incredible story behind it, the slot promises great fun with engaging gameplay mechanics and quirky references to the race.

Great Story but is the Slot Worth Our Time?

If you’re a history buff and an avid online slot player, the St. Louis 1904 is the perfect slot for you. It’s got it all, bizarre historical references, free spins, wild collectors and bonus features, all just as unpredictable as the events that unfolded at the Olympic marathon.

The layout is a classic 5×3 one with 10 paylines and a high volatility setting. The RTP is a mediocre 95.92% and bets start at $0,10 to $50 per bet. The slot includes symbols that can be associated with the notorious race like buckets of water, a thermometer, shoes, apples, bottles, money medals and runners. You’ve also got your wilds and your scatters.

All of this is set against a dusty road background, with heat and humidity levels that can be felt through the screen. We can only imagine the conditions those poor fellas had to run under.

The slot delivers in terms of story, but is the gameplay really as innovative as Blue Guru would like us to think? The main feature in the slot is the wild symbol collector, which sounds a bit too familiar.

We’ve seen it in Big Bass Bonanza and all the other wannabes that have flooded the market since. So what really makes this slot special is probably the backstory that would pique anyone’s interest.

Special Features

Despite the gameplay being awfully familiar to Big Bass Bonanza, let’s review some of the feature the slot has to offer:

• Money Medal Respins – if you land 3 Money Medal symbols on the leftmost reel you can trigger the money medal respin feature. In this round, reels 2-5 will respin to give you extra money medal symbols which can land you instant prizes.
• Free Spins – Before you start the free spins you get to choose up to 5 reel modifiers that can greatly enhance your gameplay. There are various you can choose from with different features.

Then you’ve got your wild collector which collects all the values from the money medal symbols and then all the wild collector symbols are collected as well and added to the progressive free spins meter. With each four wild collectors you collect the feature is retriggered and you get extra free spins and multipliers.

What Does the Studio Have to Say?

The Commercial Manager at Blue Guru Games, Kristian Hassall, said about the slot “St. Louis 1904 puts players in the middle of the most peculiar marathon to have ever been run. As the reels spin and the dust flies into the hot Missouri air, they must avoid the pitfalls the runners experienced back in the day to cross the line first.

To give them a taste of just how unpredictable the race was, we have packed in plenty of bonus features that caused chaos but still deliver plenty of big win potential. So, lace up and see if you have what it takes to claim victor in St. Louis 1904.”