DiLiGO Slots: Going where no gamer has gone before

Virgin Galactic Space Ship 2

“Beam me up, Scottie,” says the man in the tight-fitting officer’s uniform. In the blink of an eye, he is transported back to the Starship Enterprise orbiting the alien planet. Then, with a flash of shooting stars, the massive spaceship enters warp-speed and vanishes to the far outer reaches of space, carrying a cargo of ordinary people, the populace of an intergalactic city.

This is such a common image on television that it is hard to believe there have been no civilian or commercial space flights in the history of real life space travel. 

No matter how many times we have seen the Battlestar Gallactica drift through the endless dark void between the stars, outer space remains humankind’s final frontier, the last unexplored mystery.

Our ideas about space travel far exceed what science has accomplished. Manned space flights are still in a sense “earthbound”. Even though the astronauts are out there in zero gravity, they are in fact orbiting and observing the planet, rather than going on expeditions into deep space.

It’s not every day someone visits the moon. In fact, it may surprise you – only 12 people have ever set foot on the moon!

So how far away is large-scale space travel for civilians – you know, the people on Starship Enterprise who are not astronauts, those guys who work in the bar or give the crew massages? How long will it take for you and me to experience a ride through space?

Well, the ever-inventive Richard Branson seems to be our first hope. Some time this year, the new Virgin Galactic space travel programme will allow ordinary people to buy a ticket on the first ever commercial space flights.

For $200 000 you’ll be able to fly up to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere, float around the cabin for seven minutes in zero gravity and glide back down again.

Sorry, no warp-speed available on this two-hour journey, and no interesting alien encounters either.

If this is slightly out of your price range, perhaps for the moment you might continue to indulge some more exciting fictional space explorations here on the ground, while science catches up.

We suggest you have some fun with DiLiGO’s slot game Token Rockets. This is the real deal – with aliens and everything!

Get three or more rockets on level 1 and you will activate the bonus game. Beat an alien to the tokens hidden in the asteroid belt and fill up the hull of your rocket ship with loot. If the hull overloads with more than 200 tokens you will enter the mysterious “Black Hole Bonus”.

This is DiLiGO’s very own “final frontier” which you have a chance to go to and come back a winner!

Happy exploring!