Neo Mystery Bonus FAQ by Seth0708
Last Updated 2013-11-21
Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Mechanics
    Copyrights

Introduction

Neo Mystery Bonus is one of seven gambling titles developed by Dyna Corporation and published by SNK for the NeoGeo Pocket Color. Together these titles might have formed a decent casino title, but unfortunately each title only covers a single casino game. This one offers a slot machine.
Mechanics

The game is set up as a three by three slot machine. Hitting a button will cause the reel to spin. Your hope is that the pictures on the slot machine will match in a line across the face. Depending on your mode and bet, this line can be horizontal or diagonal.

From the title screen you are offered two choices: Original and Simple. Simple mode will always place a bet on each spin of five credits, with one credit for each of the three horizontal lines and one for both of the diagonal lines. Original mode will let you place a bet of up to two credits on these five different positions, although you have to do so in a predetermined order just like real slot machines.

There is an option for Skill stops or Auto stops. Skill stop means you need to press a button to stop each reel of the face, while Auto stop will do it for you. Skill stop allows you some control over trying to get a matching line, but not much.

If you have a successful matching line in Original mode you can go double or nothing and play a card-based mini-game. This game will place five cards face down on the table. You can select either Higher or Lower. This is a guess on your part if the next card will be higher than seven or lower than seven. If you guess correctly you double your winnings, but if you guess wrong you lose it all. If you guess correctly five times, you will go back to the slot machine.

If you line up three coins on the slot face, you receive a Coin Bonus. These are tracked on the side of the screen as coins. When you get six of these it will start another mini-game. This one is a form of pachinko where you drop a ball from the top of the screen and it cascades downwards to one of three ending points that will give you a payout.

The last mini-game is the titular Mystery Bonus. This one is started by getting three 7's on the slot face in a line. Your reels will be replaced with numbers and you will spin the reel again. Whatever numbers appear are added together and you will receive a payout multiplier equal to the value to the previous spin.

That about covers it. There is only the one slot machine style. You can save your progress as well if you so desire. This was definately intended to be an on-the-go slot machine and is about as basic as commercial titles come.