You may be surprised to discover that the origins of fruit symbols on modern slot games was actually influenced by the total ban of gambling in the early 1900s. Slot games took on a more family friendly theme and were used to give out sweets as prizes. Any symbols that were related to gambling such as card faces were swapped with fruits and this gave birth to vending and fruit machines. When the gambling ban was ended, the fruit symbols didn’t disappear instead they became established within modern video slots and continue to be used to this very day. This is despite the trend for more extravagant symbols that dominate most modern slot games. Fruit themed slots are still being released and with this in mind here are a small selection that are well worth spinning – click to play.

Fruit Warp Slot 

Swedish design house Thunderkick is the slot developer behind the fruit themed and aptly named slot, Fruit Warp. This small outfit of 50 creative minds remains independent and because of this, they retain their creative freedom too. They have definitely taken a creative risk with Fruit Warp. It is different than most slots, as the fruits seem to be floating in mid-air. The fruit symbols have a nice 3 dimensional look about them as well. Another original move here is that there are no visible reels as such, instead, every time you press spin, the fruits float away and other fruit symbols replace them. It’s a colourful slot game with some interesting features incorporated into the base game. If you match four of the same fruit symbols on the screen then you activate a Portal Re-spin. This holds the 4 symbols in place and re-spins the others giving you a chance to match even more symbols. If you land 5 or more matching fruit symbols then you activate the Fruit Mode feature.  Each symbol matching the Fruit Mode activates a single step in the Warp Meter. Some of these steps are loaded with multipliers. 

Fruit Party 

From Fruit Warps to a Fruit Party that comes courtesy of Pragmatic Play. The game plays out on a 7×7 grid that is bursting with fruit symbols.  The Random Multiplier feature is triggered during any base game and bonus game spins. The scatter symbol here is the golden fruit and 3 or more award you 10 free spins.  The free spins round can be retriggered if you continue to land 3 scatter symbols during the free spins and there is no limit to how many times the retrigger can take place. 

Fruit Xtreme Slot 

Playson are the design house behind Fruit Xtreme and this slot plays out on 5-reels with 5 active paylines. This really is a slot for those of you who enjoy old-fashioned simple gaming that isn’t loaded with bonus features and special base game features. It keeps things very simple and harks back to a more innocent slot-playing era. It does contain multipliers though and scatter symbols.