Pop Culture and the Online Scratchcard
Wednesday, 25.01.2012
Online scratchcards are a massive phenomenon, with gaming software providers pulling inspiration from all walks of life. There farmyard scratchies like Cash Farm, spiritual sensations like Zodiac, adventure capers like Treasure Island and Jungle Joy, fantasy-filled Legends of Terra and even some historical numbers like Egyptian Magic and The Lost Maya. There are Christmas scratchies, Halloween scratchies and even a cute Lucky Eggs for Easter – and these are just the online scratchcards offered by NeoGames powered sites like Karamba and Hopa! Scratchies are so popular and appeal to so many different people that even popular culture has started to seep into your fave online scratchie sites!
Take the fantastic online scratchie ELVIS Forever for example. This fantastic scratchie is of course influenced by The King of rock’n’roll himself and will see you scratching off 4 pairs of panels. If you reveal matching Elvis Presley album covers, you could win up to a huge £100,000! After the all the panels have revealed themselves, you will hear The King uttering his most infamous words: “Thank you very much!”
This isn’t the only online scratchie that was born from our love of pop-culture. The brand new Microgaming scratchie site WinTingo has a pretty sweet scratchie themed on one of the biggest movie classics of the early 1990’s: Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey! Especially sentimental to those of us who were kids or teens in the early 90’s and so lucky enough to remember when this was first released, this scratchie features a panel of blocks under which classic screenshots like the Grim Reaper, Station the alien and even Ted’s Easter Bunny from Hell – they’re all there, and if you uncover a matching pair you could find yourself wining up to a massive 2,500 times your bet!
While most online scratchcards are created simply from the imagination of software providers, more and more are being influenced by our favourite music or movies. If we can win tonnes of cash whilst enjoy being entertained by the things we already know and love, I predict that a LOT more pop-culture scratchies are set to hit our computer screens!
