£10 Challenge - DX V.4

Very unusually never seen one like this before. Thanks for this.

Many thanks for this one. I've never seen it before and it was nice to be able to play it

Ah I used to play this in Jersey airport.  It was (as far as I could tell) true skill.  There were barely any machines on Jersey and no fruit machines at all.  However this was £40 jackpot (or maybe 50 jackpot?) rather than £10.  There were squares on the trail that gave bonuses (extra life, boost, stuff like that I think).  I'm not sure how terrible people were at it, but the first one I could take out fairly reliably despite it being strategically placed under a dozen glaring strip lights.  The second jackpot was a lot harder, getting notably faster before it got to any cash squares which made getting dozens right in a row much harder. 

Great job here, with very few resources. I just got a massive trip down memory lane with this. Thank you very much.

On 15/01/2024 at 09:44, Graham the goldfish said:

Ah I used to play this in Jersey airport.  It was (as far as I could tell) true skill.  There were barely any machines on Jersey and no fruit machines at all.  However this was £40 jackpot (or maybe 50 jackpot?) rather than £10.  There were squares on the trail that gave bonuses (extra life, boost, stuff like that I think).  I'm not sure how terrible people were at it, but the first one I could take out fairly reliably despite it being strategically placed under a dozen glaring strip lights.  The second jackpot was a lot harder, getting notably faster before it got to any cash squares which made getting dozens right in a row much harder. 

This might have been Who Wants To Be A Millionaire themed. I don't remember the name of it though!

21 hours ago, Jolt-Z said:

This might have been Who Wants To Be A Millionaire themed. I don't remember the name of it though!

I think you're right.  It might have been called who wants to be a zillionare?  Although I would guess the same manufacturer.  The layout with the cards at the bottom and the 3d pyramid trail on the top glass were exactly like this.

Edited January 17 by Graham the goldfish

I am sure it was called   zillionaire's challenge by pure leisure, and the jackpot was £25.

there should be a classic of it somewhere.(maybe in the legacy section?)

On 17/01/2024 at 12:26, hitthesix said:

I am sure it was called   zillionaire's challenge by pure leisure, and the jackpot was £25.

there should be a classic of it somewhere.(maybe in the legacy section?)

Holy smokes, it's another queen game!   Was indeed in legacy section:

Yep that's the one! It might have been a £25er, but I remember if being more. Is there any chance Jersey had a different Jackpot, like the Isle of Man has its own all cash rom chips?

Cheers Jamie

Hey @Jamie28J  

We don't have roms, but I've found yet another queen game!  A guy Riche is selling it on the Mecca, here's a couple of photos:

 

Never saw that one! Looks to be of the frog it / roadrunner era. 

There is a couple of youtube vids for this on the Mecca too and a nice flyer: beat the dealer ? ctl ? - THE COPPER MINE - The MPU Mecca (fruitemu.co.uk)

 

Seems to be mention of a possible Rom for this too.

Queen image from the video - so at least I won't need to be doing 3d modelling for this one!    Couldn't see any roms unfortunately, I did have a poke around...

I couldn't find anything either but the following comment from riche100 over at the mecca got me thinking there may be one floating around: 'alan road runner has dumped my rom and will stick in downloads, soon as he can for anyone interested'.

Edited January 26 by Jamie28J

1 hour ago, Jamie28J said:

I couldn't find anything either but the following comment from riche100 over at the mecca got me thinking there may be one floating around: 'alan road runner has dumped my rom and will stick in downloads, soon as he can for anyone interested'.

I looked at all RoadRunner's uploads, none of them were the rom unfortunately - I see you added a comment over there, maybe they'll turn up.

In the meantime, there's always even more queen games lol  
 

 

LOL - that is hilarious - I don't know who is more 'queen game' obsessed me or you!  I think you take the Crown for nearly breaking into an old warehouse to get a few snaps.

30 minutes ago, Jamie28J said:

I think you take the Crown 

I see you lol 

I have just added some new buttons (Thanks Spa), and cleared up a bit of the wording in the top right - V.4 now in downloads. 

2 hours ago, Jamie28J said:

I have just added some new buttons (Thanks Spa), and cleared up a bit of the wording in the top right - V.4 now in downloads. 

Woohoo nice one @Jamie28J and @spa!  

On the subject of queen machines I have been trying to hunt down the roms for beat the dealer on the Mecca but sadly no luck yet. I am still waiting for a couple of messages back. Shame as there are some good images to work with.

Edited February 7 by Jamie28J

Would Joker Poker and clones run on mfme?

12 minutes ago, spa said:

Would Joker Poker and clones run on mfme?

Do you mean one of these three similar video poker games?

None of them have the standard 'fruit machine prefixes' to the ROM names, someone could have a bash though, rom names are in the MAME window titles in the screenshots above.

Edited February 7 by johnparker007

2 hours ago, spa said:

Would Joker Poker and clones run on mfme?

Do you mean this one ?