game ReviewThe games game can be found at Microgaming casinos. Microgaming as a standard now publish the slots house edge information of all their games at any online casino that holds a UKGC license (this is a requirement for all UKGC licensed casinos. As such we can say that the House Edge of Alley Cats is 4.98%. When playing at any venue that does not hold a UKGC license and does not specifically publish the Return to Player information for their game, this information should be used as a guideline only as we cannot confirm whether or not this game is configurable.Who knew that felines could get their grip on the ball to bowl?This game is a 5 reel game with 9 payline and you can bet up to 20 coins on each payline.There are no Wild symbols when playing Alley Cats, though the ‘Alley Cat Logo’ symbol and the ‘Ginger Cat’ symbol can combine to make winning combinations. The bonus features when playing Alley Cats are both activated when you receive 3 or more of the ‘Strike’ symbol on adjacent reels starting from the left side of the reels. When this happens you will either be awarded 20 complimentary spins or you will be taken to a new screen showing a group of cats bowling in a back alley. Select 3 of the 6 skittle like objects to be awarded random prizes.→ Read MoreConclusionAlley Cats offers the most basic of basic ...

And some of these mother cats simply cannot refuse tender loving strokes from my hand! Hahaha. They would run to me whenever they see me, for their 'Whiskas' of course, or they would wait patiently at my car porch for me to return home whenever I have to go out and buy things. Not even house-trained, just alley cats, but smart cats, hehehe.

This Alley Cats is yet another old 9-paylines game, and I was attracted to try it out just because it was all about cats. Hmm, looks like I'm a real sucker for females and felines! Stroke them enough and they would go all over me! Hahaha. That Alley Cats logo is the Wild symbol, 5 of which pays 10,000x the line bet. That 'STRIKE' is the Scatter symbol, 5 of which pays 100x the total bet. 3 or more Scatter symbols in succession on any payline randomly awards either a Bonus Feature game or a Free Spins game. The paytable also shows some variable winning combinations of cats, awarding varying win values, but the Trophy itself pays 2000x the line bet for 5 of them. All other cats and things pay from 1000x down to 125x the line bet. Generally, a pretty good paytable.

The Free Spins game offers 20 free spins with a 2x multiplier, which I only managed to get once, all the rest being awarded with the Bonus Feature games instead. In this game, the alley cat goes bowling! Can you believe that? Hmm, in cartoons, anything is possible, hehehe. You pick 3 items to throw the bowling ball at and win cash prizes for each of them. Not a lot of wins, but acceptable, usually around the 20x total bet amount. Maybe can be more, I don't know for sure, but less, I am very sure.

What I dislike the most is getting the bonus round. It doesn't pay well to bowl over objects and it's not worth getting. The 3 Strikes appearing left to right become very complex to land altogether and I really would appreciate it if most of Alley Cats mystery feature are mostly Free spins than the bonus round. 20 Free spins at 2x are more enjoyable than the Bowling round!

The other thing is the Strike symbols. There are times when it is impossible to get three of them from left to right. I can do 100 or 200 spins without the feature and think that the game would have been much, much better if you could get them scattered on all reels.

The feature itself is not always good and I myself prefer free spins better. They pay more and are more enjoyable, they also last longer and are completely random. Where the bonus game is a bit boring and has limited wins.

Over all an alright game but could have been much better. My rating 6 out of 10.

The thing that I did not like in this game is the bonus round. It does not pay very well, and sometimes it is very difficult to get 3 scatters at the same time to activate the free spins or the bonus itself. Maybe it was not one of my good days when I played this game, but I will give it another try in the future because still there are certain things that I liked in this game.

Most of the spins in the base game paid for 2-of-a-kind wins only, and anything more than that would come occasionally or even rarely. Very strange indeed, unlike most other games I've played so far! Paying 2-of-a-kinds are actually losing spins, so almost every payout cannot even cover your bet amount, and this is how the game would eat up your credits slowly. The Bonus Feature games usually don't pay back enough to boost back your balance, much less in trying to get big wins, even though the paytable does provide for such big win possibilities. Well, like I've said earlier on, in one of my reviews on a Microgaming game paytable, what you see is not what you may get! This, I don't like at all. Not one bit!