Toshi Video Club Slot Review & Free Play

Toshi Video Club: Rent a Manga Classic For 10,000x Wins

Hacksaw Gaming invites us to the back streets of a Japanese city to enjoy the black and white design of Toshi Video Club and spin on its 5x5 grid that runs on cascades. These vintage, anime-like streets hold a lot of different multiplier variations up to 100x, 10 free spins in the bonus game, and wins up to 10,000x the bet.

Wins in my base game appeared every seven to 15 spins, and while it seemed the multipliers would compensate, that didn’t really happen. The wins they were part of were stronger, but they peaked at around 5x the bet, with one standout that made the highlight of my session at 30.2x the bet.

The multipliers come from Daruma dolls, the round Japanese good-luck charms that pop back up every time they’re knocked over, and here they look angrier the bigger they get. Small, medium and big dolls add their value to the multiplier in the logo above the reels, from 1x on the smallest to 100x on the biggest. 

A green one multiplies whatever the logo has collected by 2x to 5x. Once the cascades stop, your whole spin’s win gets multiplied by the logo’s number, and in the base game, it goes back to 1 before every spin.

Right around my 30th spin, three scatters surprised me and triggered 10 free spins. Inside, nothing gets rewound, as the multiplier no longer resets and every doll that lands keeps building the logo’s total for the rest of the round. 

Each spin’s win then gets multiplied by the current total. But the dolls lined up only once, pushing the multiplier to 23x, and the wins it met were tiny, so the round returned only 4.2x my bet. You can also buy the free spins for 120x the bet, but after my round, I’d think twice about it.

Overall, the design of this slot is distinctive compared to the market, the mechanics are clear and simple, and the bonus triggered early in my session. But the payouts throughout were weak.