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Hi all, found this a while back and if you're anything like me who is someone who got into video games way back when Taito and or Midway released Space invaders then you might like this just thought I'd let you all know, if you don't already, of a pretty cool Outrun remake or enhanced version called CannonBall - The Enhanced OutRun Engine and for those of you who even fancy creating your own tracks there's also a program called Layout here are the links :- https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki/Cannonball-Manual https://github.com/djyt/layout/wiki http://reassembler.blogspot.co.uk/p/cannonball-open-source-outrun-engine.html now i can't provide the roms needed for obvious reasons but I'm sure you would be able to find them. I think it's the usual press 5 for credit, 1 for start etc your typical mame affair oh and a neat feature now incorporated is to change the view to a slightly higher vantage point by pressing left shift. Anyway it's all explained what you have to do on the websites above.

Yes I've deliberately left those out vectra (not that they don't deserve some coverage of their own in the future), but as you say they all started on £4.80 and didn't have a sample package either as they used earlier synth sounds. (Well technically 'Green' Monopoly was an inbetweener as it used synth and samples, and started off on £4.80, but I'm counting it in). I'm very narrowly targeting the '£6 Golden Era' of Maygay AWPs

So here's the list of Maygay £6 AWPs that haven't been covered on the channel and we have a layout for, this is from a trawl through my FME collection. Please note I'm specifically avoiding stuff from the £8 era onward (It's A Knockout and later), because I think their machines went to shit with the horrible blocks and the fact they were all well and truly doable and I have endless memories of taking dreadful beatings on them. Think I've got them all, I imagine this'll be a two-part video with maybe 5-10 minutes per machine, or more of course, if I get my twittering head on..... One horrible gap in here of course is the £6 James Bond machine they did, AFAIK there's never been a layout for that I do recall the machine was available at one time and I have memories of liaising with Retrofruit to try and secure the ROMs/resources but it never quite happened. Cluedo Gladiators Inferno Noel's House Party Pink Panther Return of the Pink Panther That's Life The Simpsons (£3 BWB joint venture, not the Great Escape version) Albert Square Monopoly Wild Zone

I'd go along with this to a point wearecity, yes we've all (hopefully!) moved on but some of the shit I got up to 'under the influence' of gambling addiction still makes my skin crawl TBH. What I can do now is separate the machines from the addict, so I can review machines like Eastenders and Coronation Street, and appreciate them as really well designed AWPs, because addiction was my fault, not Maygay's. (Where I do still get angry with the manufacturers though, is all the 'doable' machines they produced which unless you were in the minority of clued up 'pros', would absolutely take you to the cleaners. Thinking back, a lot of my worst reactions to fruit machines were when I got absolutely smacked in the face by a fruit machine that, with the benefit of hindsight, had clearly been 'done'.) TBH I'm just grateful I survived, many times in my twenties I honestly didn't think I'd live to see my 30th birthday, and I didn't particularly want to either. (Without the family and friends I was so lucky to have, those who stuck with me through the absolute worst of it, and of course Mrs Degsy, I'd have been pushing up daisies a long time ago.) I'll get to this stuff in the Gambling Low Ebbs videos. SPOILER ALERT - They will not be feelgood stories.

The memory is still incredibly vivid even today. I was so addicted that it was a genuine internal struggle to not lose every penny I had, and force myself to walk out of the arcade with at least enough money to get us both to the cinema on our planned date. It's scary to remember how utterly consuming my addiction was. I have nothing but sympathy for folks who've been snared by the FOBTS and suchlike, and their ability to take money far outstrips anything the old AWPs were capable of. The response to the Eastenders video has been really positive (loads of nice comments on the video, including about the Jackanory section), so I've decided to go ahead with a few videos I've been thinking about making for a while now. They'll probably be called Gambling Low Ebbs - Part 1, Gambling Low Ebbs - Part 2 and so on, and they'll be exactly what it says on the tin. Folks from back in the day at Fruit Forums will have probably read a couple of them before. Smashing my own car up with a rock, anyone?.......