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The Crystal Rooms is now all boarded up and part of the Hippodrome casino. Sad times.

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Never ever saw a Mr. Do fruity. Played the video game for hours and hours though

An emptier is simply a method of play that will allow you to take every last coin from a machine. This will be because there is an issue with the code and it doesn't realise it's paid too much. A rip is an exploit that means you can get more than the machine would like to pay, but generally once you've had it the machine will clam up, stop phoning for example, preventing you doing it again. An example would be banking £140 on Banker's Bonus.

I was going to say 'Dave'.

Is Andy from G² part of this forum? Or does @slasherhave a contact that could get them?

Did anyone do anything with plumber's payday? There's one in my local and I've never seen it pay £150.

I always disagree, politely of course, with @Chopaholicon this one, but I really don't think emptiers had anything at all to do with the death of the AWP. The reason in my mind is simple - they became gambling machines rather than amusement machines. As soon as this happened, the jackpot had to keep up with that available first in clubs, then bookies and casinos and now the almost unlimited jackpots online. People simply aren't interested in putting beer money into a pub fruit as they know there is no amusement and £20 could last less than five minutes. So the only people putting any money in them are addicts and a dwindling band of players. It will be interesting to see what happens with the random digitals. Most pubs are simply getting rid, but they infest every spoons.

You're simply describing an online casino, but one where you have an actual machine rather than your computer. It will happen whether you like it or not, because actual cash will disappear altogether.

I've played tornado, but the weather vanes are wrong and that bothers me! They go NWSE, whereas every schoolboy knows it's 'Never Eat Shredded Wheat'

Casino section?

Do you know how much of a cock I am? The thing that stopped me playing was the £1.99 charge on the nearest cashpoint to the pub! I'd still like to know what other randoms are emulated apart from the cops and robbers safe cracker AWP and FOBTy

Is there a way to filter for digitals? I'm back in London today and there are dozens of digitals blinking at me all around the office. I need to scratch my itch, so wondered what digitals are emulated...

Yeah that was me, sorry. I was a student at Keele from 89-93 and made a small fortune at the services. They used to have pinball games in there too, and some like Super Mario Bros didn't seem to be clever enough to raise the replay score, so once we got good at it we could spend all day on it for £1, constantly getting free games.

If it's Indiana Jones font you remember them that's your machine. This one was also amazing...

Google deletes nothing, no matter what they pretend

Hi Alex I understand your reasons and hope the new job is a success. Would it be possible just to leave the low ebbs as private rather than delete everything? They are a real help to me when I have the occasional relapse. Cheers Ed

Just like Star Wars and Star Trek, the scripts that rely on politics rather than stories have ruined Doctor Who for me.

but who was the best 'assistant'?

I still prefer roller coaster.

Replay existed in Barcrest club machines too, like Celebration. You got about 10% extra credits for using it.

Yep. Any variance in how they play is purely down to how you play it as opposed to how they got played in the wild. Club machines in golf clubs, for example, got quite a lot of play from old boys spending their pension so were ripe for a player to extract serious value, but stick the same machine in a snooker hall and far more people would take it on and it wouldn't build up that value.

Like you say, it's far too easy to lose £350+ on these things in no time at all. They shouldn't exist anywhere unregulated, especially where people will be drunk.

The reason people will play randoms is the fact you can win decent money in minutes and don't need to care about a player destroying the machine. For example, I popped in the pub at lunchtime and stuck a tenner in Robin Hood. First few quid at 50p yielded a few small wins but seemed fairly pointless, so I upped to £1 spins. Second game got a whole load of kings for £44, so I collected a £48 bank and walked with a nice little profit. That doesn't happen on a reflex. And if you forced a betcom you're lucky these days to make more than £20 profit, even if it goes for £150. These machines are deliberately shit as there was always a clear strategy to get compensated games out of pubs and turn them into mini casinos. They were supposed to have increased the category C jackpot in 2017 but because of the ongoing arguments about FOBTs the triennial review was punted into the long grass. Both bacta and the pub industry have called for a maximum stake of £2 and a maximum prize of £150. Imagine how much people will stuff into a pub random when they can spin in £150 in seconds no matter what previous play it's had! But really they're just slowly positioning the business to get FOBTs into pubs. AWPs stopped being such around the £15/£25 jackpot era.

I notice by the way @Chopaholicthat when it takes a credit to tell you 'that's your lot' it doesn't actually take a credit for the next game.