Boulderdash

May the fourth be with you

Are you trying to force a jackpot? The Scorpion 4 version won't pay jackpot except in very exceptional circumstances. Just start collecting £100s and £50s and it'll keep paying until you're back close to percentage.

If it's the 1990s club temptation with the snake trail then yes, I think it has a stop button so three of the same separated by one random fruit will spin in a win of those fruits when you press stop as described. If it's temptation club from about fifteen years ago I don't think it does anything at all!

Mfme is fabulous for doing this kind of research. RIP wizard.

...and then emptying it by only getting back on the feature with a fruit win so it stayed blue.

I'd probably want a classic like The Addams Family...

Does anyone here own a pinball table? I'm tempted to buy one for my games room but am concerned at the cost both of initial outlay and ongoing maintenance.

Looks awesome. The crystal maze doorknob cracks me up

Most definitely. Similarly I assume the sponsors of the European Golf tour don't watch porn. I crack up every time they say 'sponsored by DP World'

How about Funny Santa? Looks American...

I thought that was 'Why is Mrs Claus always so miserable?'

I would say that ticket-based machines are way more addictive than regular fruits because there are multiple levels of engagement. Obviously there's the initial gambling on the machine, you pay real money and get excited 'winning'. But on top of that you have the excitement of the ticket eating machine that pays out a more valuable ticket. Then the thrill of the chase, trying to gain though tickets to exchange for a prize. And although the prize will generally be a piece of tat, I can still remember my son's joy at winning a leaping porcelain dolphin from the croyde holiday camp arcade.

£25 a play seems a bit steep for a £5 jackpot

I don't understand why you would add mechanics like a moving hopper to a machine that gives something else to fail. I would imagine the second hopper would always be screwed firmly into the cabinet and the sound you hear is a safety door that was being removed when it was about to pay out. Said door could prevent theft by people sticking things up into the hopper, or some disastrous failure causing all the coins to fall out. Your logic for cashpots is sound, however. On 80s and 90s BFM and Barcrest machines the pot could be taken at any value (unless seeded) as it was a paid for win. On most BFMs until Clubwise you could take both the pot and the reserve, but after that they wouldn't pay both. I guess they worked out the machine gets less play when there isn't the illusion of a jackpot available from the cashpot. Barcrests wouldn't generally pay the pot until the reserve was about three quarters of the jackpot, so the pot itself was almost always jackpot. Earlier machines like Blackjack club would climb out - you'll see the block at 'Notation' where you'll always have a 7 or 8 to gamble from so there's the illusion of fair odds but when it's taken enough you can gamble up to the top. The pot on later Blackjack programs and almost all subsequent Barcrests could only be won when the machine span the win in on the reels once it has taken enough money.

I think that's short sighted by the operator. A pro only falls for that once and doesn't come again. So you lose all the money he'd put through a machine on the times he didn't profit.

This could well have been a reaction to players on ferries. In the late 80s I caught a ferry to France and collected £75 from a club attraction on the cash trail exchange because the pots were low. Other machines were clearly being covered by players would pay something stupid like £1 for a return trip on foot and empty them. Didn't catch a ferry for a few years by which time the boats were full of Cops n Robbers all with maxxed pots at £200. Did my buttons on the way there and back believing they were winnable.

Yeah, what Tommy said. I tried it a while ago with BFM Club Explosion and even though the pot is a paid for win it simply refused to go to the top, reversed or otherwise, until it had taken the same amount of money that would have built up that win.

sorry. winner bakes all is the megastreak on LALP

Why don't we have the rooms for MYMY? I quite like that. And WinnerBakesAll

True. But it still never goes past £100

I went in the Chinatown one because I used to like the 5p games downstairs, but they've all gone. Basically Bar X and poker machines down there now. Mostly 500s upstairs.

Yes. It's the Streak Walker feature art the bottom left of the top glass, earned by filling all the paws. It's capped at £100 though, which is rather dull as it usually costs at least that.