GeorgeJG

Nice. Never played this one irl, as Ponytail Pete was always on it. I saw the Harry Chopsywound Maroney video about this and would like to retrospectively play it, sounds like the game gets a lot of love from the old schoolers, so why not? Thankyou for the release Woodsy.

Lovely attention to detail, from the shadows below the column buttons to the immaculate scrolling lamps on the invincible, beautiful work. I've got a couple of audio gremlins though. Left channel only plays sound, right is mute (both my speakers are working and on/balanced) and very occasionally the collect music plays at around 0.5% speed. I downloaded the £15 version as that's what used to be in Leicester Forest East services, a million years ago. Admittedly back then I was cautious of the evil services 70% so this was a try one or two boards and get what you can type machine for me. I thought it was one of those Bell Fruit Games where collecting a quid on £10 boards would eventually buy the streak but it's not that! I drifted by nearly £200 and it wouldn't roll from the invincible. So I switched strategy to pinching and it has thrown in a few jackpots and TB streaks between £3-£5 collects but every one a £15 flat no repeat. Still on around 50% pay out, so one to return to and see if I can get my % Pretty harsh machine gameplay wise, to think I used to play it on 70% and this is 84% Great job on the layout though!

Looks great Vectra, first time I've seen the button reflection in the chrome above the reel glass. After about £200 cycled through I got three running mega cash's 15,25,15 straight after a £13 from triple win.

Cheers Jamie, I just downloaded as Mr. Snaith said that he did £100 in one of these beasts (may have been a different version of Bodymatch, I'm not sure) for a £2 jackpot. This seems to gamble out quite fairly to the top. I've never played it in the wild. I'm struggling to see how you could do a 1er in one of these! Probably a corrupt chip.

Thank you Hitthesix, I've only seen this on YouTube videos from Mr Ps, I never played it or even heard of it back in the day. However I like the look of it, so will give it a go on the emulator.

That monkey on the artwork looks like it has been on the wine It looks like a 'Grandslam' variant very popular in some European countries. It's the old get a win on the lower reels and take the money or risk it on the upper set of reels.

Absolute games. I'd love to say I'm too young to remember this one, but then I'd be fibbing. On a family holiday at a regular haunt, it was located in a nearby chip shop. Fair to say, I spent more than I intended on this thing during the holiday. I have clear recollections of one such session. I inserted the coins slowly and carefully. One big round two pence at a time. I was a cautious and prudent gambler and putting in silver or gold was a fool's errand. This was in the very early 90s. After inserting 16p, eight losing spins, a yellow box appeared. "You have inserted 1p above your set limit of 15p, do you wish to continue?" I pressed the yes button and bravely continued. A nudge for 10p grapes bought me some time but before I knew it another box had popped up. "You have been playing for 20 minutes and have inserted 54p, this is significantly higher than average, are you sure you wish to continue?" Slightly vexed at this unwanted intrusion, I selected yes. At this juncture I had to wait for 30 seconds for the message to clear. To pass the time I started feeding two pence pieces into the machine next to Super Jester, that was the currently unemulated 'Copper Pot' with the strange 'Aaron' jackpot symbol. It was at this juncture that the chip shop owner appeared with an iPad, sorry, I mean a note pad. "Hello there Sonny Jim, I'm very sorry for this intrusion young Sir, but a few yellow boxes and alarms and alerts and national emergency warnings have flashed up in the back office. I happened to notice this whilst I was almost finished with constructing a chip butty. We are duty bound and obliged by our code of conduct to ask you a few questions." "errr ok ummm errr" "Now I notice you're playing two machines at once, which is a red flag uber warning. Where on earth did you get all that income? Brackets subtly ask them at this point of the interaction as to what line of work they're in. What line of work are you in Sonny Jim? Merchant banking? Encyclopedia salesman? Chimney Sweep?" "Errr no. I'm just a small boy, this is my pocket money." "Misdemeanour no! I will not let this go oh oh oh oh, scaramoosh scaramoosh, you're clearly a drug baron or some kind of criminal mastermind. I need to ask you to collect your money and leave immediately. You are banned nationwide from all fish and chip shops with machines until you can provide proof of earnings, such as a declaration of pocket money rations signed by a parent or guardian" And that was that. To this day, I thank that chip shop owner for fulfilling his responsibilities and not allowing me to spiral into a degenerate branch of potential future life. I finished my cone of chips and attached some string to the end which was connected to another empty cone. I threw this in the general direction of Wizard. It was a very long string, about one hundred miles long and I'm not sure my aim was spot on, but I tried my best and when I felt the slack take up in the string, I uttered the words "Get that emulator coded quick smart". Five years later, when I was minding my own business, an empty cone landed near my feet. I picked it up. "Only if you say please" So back the cone went. This time I used some manners and sure enough my words had not fallen on deaf ears, as soon after that, the first emulator was born. I would also like to thank Ginge for this layout which will enable me to re enact the total multiple red bags on an Equinox levels of carnage (well it was in my young brain at the time!)

Great to see this old lo tech DX'd and also I had no idea there were different available programs based on location setting. I used to play this in an arcade, about 20+ years ago so I'm not 100% but I think it did offer a gamble. It never took the absolute piss as far as I remember, always seemed fair but I think these could occasionally just lock up for a few hundred and not give the streak from what I heard. I remember I did go £250ish into a Step it UP (similar ilk and also an Astra) and it refused to give much more than back to back jackpots. I walked off it, not sure if being more stubborn would have eventually paid off. Anyway many thanks to Ze Frog and I'll give this a quick blast before bed time.

"ME Charlie? In the back of the van? With my asthma?" "One more word Arthur..."

Thanks for the layout. Just got shafted on this down in Barry Island. Could not get a decent win off the deal or bust, so going to try and get some revenge in the emulator!

Thank you for the release. I played this in the wild many moons ago and have completely forgotten how it plays, looking forward to rediscovering it!

Quite a fun game, looking forward to playing again. Thank you Woodsy

This used to be in The Red Lion pub in Hunningham back in 1995. Great release, cheers. There was an old boy who always sat next to it who told me to let it spin on bars after a nudge, pro tips that back at that young age I had no idea!

German words aside, this looks very British in that it's a lapper board and in a similar vein to Arabian Nights, Neptune's Treasure etc These sort of games hit the UK market very late 90s. I'm trying to make sense of the cash stack. I'm guessing it is linked to Deutschemarks and not Euro.