Recently the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot was hit for over 5.5 million credits. This brought the progressive network in the radar of particularly the new players at online casinos. This article reviews the Mega moolah network in order to help new players get acquainted with it while the jackpot amount starts rising again.
Mega Moolah did not begin as a progressive jackpot network. It was launched by Microgaming as an isolated online slot game in November 2006 with a four tier progressive jackpot. The largest of these jackpots is called Mega Progressive or Mega Moolah and it resets at 1 million credits. This is one of the biggest attractions. The other three jackpots are Major, Minor and Mini and reset at decreasingly lower levels. The jackpots are hit through a unique bonus game that can be randomly triggered after any spin. This game displays a wheel that contains different colored bands representing the different progressive jackpots. The color of the band next to pointer when the wheel stops indicates which of the four jackpots is hit. Based on recent performances, the Mega Moolah jackpot pays out 2.8 million credits on an average every two months. The Major jackpot pays about 30,000 credits every two days, and the other jackpots pay smaller amounts more often. The Mega Moolah slot game has an African safari theme with bold icons of wild animals.
In 2009 Microgaming decided to convert Mega Moolah into a progressive jackpot network. A number of other online slot games were connected to the same progressive network and the jackpot could be hit from any of them. Rather than create new slots machines, Microgaming adapted some of its popular titles for the Mega Moolah network. The first new addition was Five Reel Drive, which was added to the network in January 2009 and had a driving theme. In May 2009 Summertime with a summer theme was added and in August 2009 Isis with an ancient Egypt theme was added. Then for almost two years only these four slot games comprised the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot network.
In the summer of 2010 Microgaming launched a branded online slot game titled The Fellowship of the Rings with great fanfare. This was based on the first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. For a year this slot game was offered at Microgaming online casinos as a stand alone game. Then suddenly in the summer of 2011 the slot game was adapted and linked to the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot network. Equally suddenly The Fellowship of the Rings was removed from the network without any warning in the summer of 2012. This removal coincided with the release of another branded slot. This was The Dark Knight based on the Warner Brothers movie featuring the super hero Batman. The Dark Knight was added to the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot network immediately and has carried on from where The Fellowship of the Rings left.
With these five fantastic games the Microgaming Mega Moolah progressive jackpot network is one of the most popular in the online casino industry. Fortunately for Canadian players there are many Microgaming online casinos that cater to them. The best of these include Jackpot City, All Slots, Royal Vegas and Gaming Club.
