A pub and arcade favourite from Blueprint Gaming
King Kong Cash is a fruit machine built by Blueprint Gaming for British arcades, seaside amusements and pub gaming corners. It's a physical cabinet, not a video slot designed for a casino lobby from day one, and the version you've fed coins into sits next to the change machine rather than inside a browser tab.
The theme is simple: a cartoon gorilla sits above the reels, and landing the right combination sends you into a separate feature board instead of paying out on the reels alone. A base game plus a distinct bonus board is the standard shape for UK compliant fruit machines, and it's part of why cabinets like this one stay in venues for years rather than getting swapped out each season.
What the six bonus features actually do
The feature board is triggered by the gorilla symbol, and it runs through six separate rounds rather than one. Respins sit inside that set, so a single trigger can keep paying across several spins without you staking again.
Blueprint hasn't published a breakdown of how each of the six rounds is weighted or what separates a small respin round from a bigger one. That's normal for a cabinet built to a specific stake and prize category rather than a slot with a public paytable PDF. Whatever numbers exist live on the machine's own info screen, and they can differ from one operator's cabinet to the next.
Stake limits and why the pay rhythm shifts by venue
Land-based cabinets like King Kong Cash run within a licensed stake and prize category, and it's the operator running the venue who sets the machine within that range, not Blueprint Gaming centrally. That's why two King Kong Cash units in two different arcades can feel different to play even though the theme, symbols and six-feature format are identical.
The practical effect: the pay rhythm you notice in one location, frequent small hits with occasional bigger swings through the feature board, isn't guaranteed to repeat exactly on a different machine. Treat what you see on one cabinet as a description of that cabinet, not the title as a whole.
King Kong Cash RTP: why one number doesn't exist
There is no single published RTP for King Kong Cash. Land-based operators set the return within the limits of the machine's stake and prize category, so the figure on one cabinet can differ from the one down the road, and Blueprint Gaming doesn't publish a title-wide average the way an online studio would.
If you come across a digitised version with its own info screen, the RTP shown there applies only to that build. It's the only number worth trusting, and it isn't the same as whatever's printed on the glass of the arcade unit.
Is King Kong Cash available as an online slot?
Yes, a digitised version exists, and it turns up in the lobby of some operators holding a UK Gambling Commission licence. None of the sites we currently review carry it, so you won't find it through our shortlist today.
If you're searching for it on a licensed site outside our coverage, here's what actually works:
How to check if a lobby carries it
- Search the game name directly rather than browsing by theme; it won't sit under a category like Megaways or Hold and Win.
- Filter by provider and look for Blueprint Gaming. If the studio isn't in the lobby, the individual title won't be either.
- Open the demo first, if one's offered, and check the game's own paytable before you check anything written about it elsewhere, including this page.
Free play, demos and the King Kong Cash app
The arcade cabinet itself has no free mode; coin-op machines don't work that way. Whether a digitised version offers a demo depends entirely on the operator carrying it, and we haven't tested that ourselves, so we won't claim a demo exists somewhere specific.
No standalone King Kong Cash app exists that we're aware of either. Where the digitised version is available, it sits inside the casino operator's own app or mobile site, the same way any other slot in that lobby would, rather than as a separate download.
Land-based cabinet versus the digitised version
The two versions share a theme and a name, but not much else.
| Land-based cabinet | Digitised version | |
|---|---|---|
| RTP | Set by the venue, no published figure | Fixed and shown on the game's own info screen, where available |
| Bonus trigger | Gorilla symbol combination on the reels | Usually a scatter or feature symbol |
| Stake control | Fixed by the venue within its licence category | Adjustable per spin by the player |
| Where you'll find it | UK arcades, seaside amusements, pubs | Some UK Gambling Commission licensed lobbies; not on any site we currently review |
If you've only ever played the arcade unit, expect the digitised build, where it exists, to behave more like a standard online slot: fixed stakes per spin, an RTP you can actually look up, and no coin tray underneath.
How to approach a feature-heavy machine like this
Whether you're stood at the cabinet or trying a digitised build, the six-round feature board is the reason people remember King Kong Cash, and it's also the reason a short session can feel like nothing happens for a while. Nothing you do at the controls changes when the bonus lands; each spin runs independently of the last one.
Budget for the base game to be most of what you play. Set a stake and a session limit before you start rather than adjusting either mid-session, and if a demo is available on a digitised version, run it first so you've seen the feature board pay out before it costs you anything.
Games with a similar bonus structure in our lineup
If you liked the idea of one symbol unlocking a run of separate bonus rounds rather than a single free spins trigger, that's the format to search for rather than the gorilla theme itself. The similar games listed below are matched on studio and feature structure, not on artwork, so they're the closest thing in our lineup to what King Kong Cash does on the cabinet.
We haven't found a King Kong Cash listing at any operator we cover, and we'd rather point you to a real match than invent one that isn't there.