One of the dominant images of great apes, particularly fans of Tarzan, is the huge beast pounding its chest with its fists to challenge an adversary. Throughout the history of online slots there have been many games with the theme of the great ape. Some are realistic, some are fictional and some are irreverently comical. This article looks at three of the best.

Though King Kong was created about 80 years ago, every generation is familiar with the fictional monstrous ape, through movies that keep recreating him every decade. Playtech released a branded slot game based on the movie Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World. The characters in the movie are the high paying symbols. Kong video slot has two sets of reels. The first one is the Jungle Mode and is set in the forests of Skull Island, which is ably created by the graphics. After the bonus game is triggered and played, the online video slot moves to the Big City Mode. The reels are set in New York with suitably different artwork. Kong is live at Playtech online casinos like Omni Casino and Mansion Casino.

Playtech has another video slot titled Epic Ape, which has more realistic representation. The slot game has a 6x4 structure with an all ways format that gives 4,096 ways to win. The reels are set in a dense African jungle. The surly imposing ape is the highest paying symbol and it can appear stacked on all reels. Some of the other jungle creatures like leopard, panther, chameleon and frog also appear as high symbols. You can be awarded up to 100 free spins, depending on the number of Free Games logo symbols in the triggering spin. During the feature the wild symbol multiplies payouts up to 5x. More free spins can be awarded.

Gorilla Go Wild from NextGen Gaming is a comically crafted slot machine that features the antics of the indolent King Gary Gorilla. The high symbols also include palace, gold coin and jungle subjects like monkey, toucan and opossum. Gary Gorilla is also the wild symbol. In Gary’s Feature Kingdom there are four exciting features that are triggered in sequence. Gorillionaire Win Spins awards 10 winning spins with doubled payouts. The Stay Wild feature awards 10 free spins with sticky wilds. Megarilla Multiplier awards 10 free spins with increasing multipliers. In the More Wilds free spins normal symbols turn into additional wilds.