Vacation Station (NTC33): the original 3x3 travel slot and its eight lines
The original, flat-cartoon Vacation Station: nine travel symbols, eight colour-tagged lines including three vertical ones, and a suitcase that shows your bet.
Cartridge label
- Grid
- 3 x 3
- Lines
- 8 (3 across, 3 down, 2 diagonal)
- Coin shown
- RM0.01
- Bet shown
- RM0.03 on one line
Controls
- - / + (coin)
- Changes the coin value
- Paytable
- Opens the prize list
- All Lines
- Switches on all eight lines
- Bet One / Bet Max
- Raises the bet a step, or goes straight to the maximum
- Spin
- Spins the reels
Vacation Station is a small travel-themed slot on a 3x3 grid. It is the older, flat-cartoon version; NTC33 also carries the 3D remake, Vacation Station Deluxe, which works the same way with a different look.
The screen
The grid sits on a green brick wall, like a railway platform. To the right is a big green arrow sign reading VACATION STATION and a grinning tourist in a flowered shirt, with a camera and an old leather suitcase. The suitcase is your scoreboard: WIN, BET and LINE BET are printed on its side.
The nine symbols are all ways to travel: a red sports car, a hot-air balloon, a yellow bus, a propeller plane, a pink train, a cruise ship, a yellow motorbike, a sailboat and a green submarine. A patched brown suitcase also turns up on the reels.
The eight line tags
Coloured number tags sit around the grid, and each one marks where a line starts:
- 1, 2 and 3 on the left edge are the middle, top and bottom rows.
- 4 in the top-left corner and 5 in the bottom-left corner are the two diagonals.
- 6, 7 and 8 across the top are the three columns, read straight down.
The vertical lines are the unusual part. On most three-reel games you only win across. Here a column of three identical symbols also counts, if that line is switched on.
While the reels turn, the symbols darken into silhouettes and a small hourglass appears next to GAMES in the top menu.
Setting the bet
The coin box on the bottom left has minus and plus buttons (RM0.01 in every screenshot). Then come Paytable, All Lines, Bet One, Bet Max and Spin.
In these screenshots BET and LINE BET both read RM0.03, which means only one line is live. Tapping All Lines turns on all eight, so the same line bet costs eight times as much per spin. The payline drawn in the hero image is line 1, the middle row.
Pacing a session
The whole game is nine symbols and eight lines, and nothing in the screenshots suggests a feature round beyond what the suitcase might trigger. It is a slow, simple game that suits a few cents a line and a short session. Decide whether you want one line or all eight first; that choice sets the cost more than the coin does.
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Troubleshooting and questions
What is the difference between Vacation Station and Vacation Station Deluxe?
Same 3x3 grid, same eight lines, same travel symbols. The Deluxe version has 3D artwork set in an airport, a Turbo Mode switch, Auto Play and an INFO button. This original is flat cartoon art in a brick station and has no Auto Play or Turbo button.
Why did plane, train, train on the middle line pay nothing?
A line needs three matching symbols. Two trains after a plane is not a combination.
Press start
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