MikeyMonster

i tend to use the legacy section for all my downloads..... new stuff is added there pretty regularly and most (but certainly not all) of the games do have roms and work just fine

Your channel will be sorely missed... the youtube notification that a Degsy vid was available was always a source for happiness. Thanks for all the hard work you have put in down the years - I have really appreciated it across the years. I totally agree with you if it needed to go - fair enough - I an still eternally grateful. Hope work continues to go well and that you continue to prosper.

Hahahaha I think that's why I can just play both of them for hours. So much going on. £15 JPM's were pretty damn good.

Now.... I thought JPM were pretty fair in their programming with no evil tricks. Having a mess about on Cracker on the emulator tonight - I love this game... and I trapped it - super notes and I could step to a 12 to collect Hi Lo Notes For those that don't know - on this feature, you get the note equivalent to the number you are on, and then a Hi Lo for another win. The 12 number on super is a JP.... so me thinks, £15 plus a guaranteed win when going lower than the 12 - cos JPMS don't mess about. When the £15 banked, before my hi lo gamble - the machine flipped the number to a 5! At least it wasn't a critical error i suppose!

As a poor 10 year old 36 years ago!, the highlight of my week was going to the Library to get some more Dr Who books, For a pre-teen kid, the books were AMAZING!!, and there were so many of them to boot. I watched it though to the end of the Capaldi era... but felt throughout the Matt Smith shows it was already being seriously dumbed down. This is reflected in the DVD ratings.... The Ecclestone and Tennant series are rated 15 or 12...... the Smith ones are all PG or even U. Best assistant - K9 of course!

Thanx That's just f***ed up...... imagine playing it as a poor kid on a day trip with his family straight after. Also - £60 bank limit on a 5p play machine. Designers were crazy.....

One of the Only Fools and Horses machines would roll in consecutive Jackpots. It was a 5p £6 all cash machine (just after the £10 JP's came into play). Was usually 4 or 5.

The features from 11th Heaven and up are all JP or equivalent features - so always collect these. Shockwave is the trickiest of them - you would take 11th Heaven on a guaranteed number rather than Shockwave You can either collect value and wait for an opportunity, or semi force for 11th Heaven, collecting value after. Look out for the red boxes for hidden features on nudges (and occasionally Super Hold) as a number of these will give a shot at JP as well. Important to not mess up either Steppa or Big shot off the bonuses. If forced, or played for through 11th Heaven JP can repeat up to £60.... but if collecting wins for value will be a flat £15. In theory, Big 50 can pay £50..... I have never seen more than £30. Have fun - the JPM's from this era are fantastic - check out Arcadia and Cracker!

@infection Its a direct clone of Chav It, which has been emulated if you're interested.

@logopolis on Big Top it can go JP, £2 £2 for a £19 total...... Same profile, just wins very slightly different as Big Top is £2, £5 £10 £15 on the feature. Same totals for most of the sequences though - especially the bigger ones. I also have had £75, £75 JP start IRL..... but it let me down as the last one was £19.....

They are the same... JP start is either £19 if followed by £2 or £75 if followed by a fiver..... (might have been a tenner on big top - honestly cannot remember)

My best in real life on a Big top was £75, £75 £52...... it had cost me a tenner...... It was on unit 3... funny as fuck though cos i had been waiting for unit one... and a cunt I knew sprinted the length of the arcade to get on it before me whilst i was collecting a bank out on rollercoaster. I was cursing him and giving him some serious shit - i mean he knew i was waiting for it.... and what he did was totally against the players code. He lost over £100 on his... and whilst he was stuck on it... I cleaned up!

Welcome to losing hours of your life. IMO this site is just amazing. Such a wealth of classics machines available, and like you, would just like to say a massive thanks as always to the site runners, and the layout designers. If any of you are ever in my neck of the woods - Southport - 1st rounds on me. Slainte!

I bought this when it came out - sold it 18 months ago when i was out of work and hard up. I got £350 for it at the time I was gutted to part - but had to do it. Such an awesome game - Saturn's had far more processing power than the PS rival which killed them off - but was a bugger to program for hence designers flocking to Sony. This game utilised all its power and was a beauty to behold and play. They don't make them like this anymore.....!

Shocked and stunned. How does anyone think that is an acceptable way to behave? Never mind on a forum of peeps interested in the same hobby, or memories of the past. Truly bizarre. Thumbs ups to the prompt removal!

@eagle64 Thats the one.... thank you

Funnily enough - i loved this cabinet. But maybe thats because so many of them were so playable....

I found that invariably, if you got a feature entry board which started with a bonus, a 2nd JP was available before it cost the same amount back. If machine was super happy and started on Add again - you could take three pots out. Don't think this was common knowledge - but it was definitely the case. These were decent earners for me.

Am I mistaken, or did this also work on the £1000 club version early roms?

Yeah..... I know what you mean. Being stuck on a game and having to wait for the guide to be printed in a magazine! None of that malarkey nowadays.........

Bizarrely... even way back then in the 80'S.. I had a fruit machine game for my Dragon!! Used to love that Dragon - separate tape deck to load. Used to buy my games from Tandy - remember them?

I had a Dragon 32 - which i believe was the first home computer to have a "button" keyboard as opposed to a rubber flat keypad. I'm sure there was a Dragon magazine as well - sadly missing from this list..... I remember copying pages of code from a mag, so there must have been at the very least a generic one.

@Reg A truly great and meaningful post and a joy to read. I never knew Chris, and whilst this means I should in no way presume his thoughts, i'm going to do so. One other person deserves massive respect and a huge thank you for their tireless work always, and specifically in the last few weeks. Without this person, none of the tributes or the remembrances would have been possible. @reg - plain and simple - Thank you. I believe you show the true spirit of what Chris desired,

Thank you Reg, A great story to restart this wonderful site. We know it will not ever be the same, however we can endeavour to make it a lasting legacy to Wizard.