I had some fortunate luck on the game, with 6 Quick Hit symbols coming out a couple of times during my bonus, once at 2x (yielding a 100x hit on a single bonus spin) and once at 1x. The wild can therefore add either 5 free games, or up the multiplier. However, all of the free games options are at 1x. For one, you can get up to 25 free games without the wild. The game features the “match 3” pick screen for the bonus, but has a couple of key differences. The game features stacked wild symbols, something different for the series, and probably one of its clearest key differentiators. The progressives follow the standard (for that era) Quick Hit starting seed jackpots of 10x for 5 Quick Hit symbols, 50x for 6 Quick hit symbols, and so on (unlike newer versions today which tend to pay less).
The game comes with 30 lines and a $1.50 max bet on pennies the times I’ve encountered it, including on the cruise. This version of the game (which has a clone in the Dragon theme) features the standard 5×3 format and five progressives (for 5 through 9 Quick hit symbols, respectively) of most other versions introduced in that era. One version that I tended to not gravitate towards, but did recently on my latest cruise, is the Las Vegas version.
My enjoyment of the Quick Hit series has been something well documented here over the past couple of years.
