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  1. Sinbad £6T/£10

    in BWB

       191    19

    Posted

    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. 

     

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  2. Posted

    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!

     

     

     

  3. Trick or Treat £15 Dx

    in Project

       180    19

    Posted

    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. 

  4. Body Match DX by Jamie28J

    in BWB

       149    9

    Posted

    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.

     

  6. Posted

    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.

     

  7. Posted

    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!)

     

     

     

     

      

     

       

     

      

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  8. Posted

    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.

     

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  13. Posted

    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!

     

     

     

     

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  14. Posted

    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.

     

     

  15. Easy Money £10 Dx

    in Bell-Fruit

       130    17

    Posted · Edited by GeorgeJG

    I think I played this on £8 token jackpot, not that I'd put my life on it. It was in a somewhat dodgy arcade on some peculiar setting that loved to roll in the token jp on the reels. 

    Mr P has or did have an £8 Jumping Jack Flash sited in Maidstone. 

  17. Battleships

    in Maygay

       49    3

    Posted

    This is a decent game, I say that from experience as this used to be in a local arcade and it is genuinely entertaining, a rare quality in machines, even back then, although rose tinted spectacles disagrees strongly here. 

    Released in 2001 at a guess, it's not a clone of anything and was a different pathway to the many clones of Great Escape/Cluedo Super Sleuth in terms of profile and game play. It does streak and can do running invincible boards. 

     

    Many thanks wearcity, it's a shame there's no sound.

     

    Let me try and remember some of them...

     

    Invincible was a sonar type sound on board entry but the LED will let you know it's invincible anyhow (full steam ahead?)

    Fruit wins + gamble played a version of In the Navy by Village People(?)

    That's all I know, my memory lets me down. 

     

    I woke up, I found this layout, that's all I know

     

    Say it again.

     

    Uncontrolled blubbing

     

    <Slaps face>

     

    Say it

     

    (through the tears) I woke up, I found this layout, that's all I know

     

    Right. Do I need to state the obvious? I .... was not here. Count down from 20 and press dial. Good luck kid, you're on the home run now.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  18. JPM Red Alert German

    in JPM

       70    5

    Posted

    Where has the Fireman's Lift gone?

    Oranges and lemons? Who put them there? That's definitely not allowed, not on Red Alert anyhow. 

    I'm going to have to download this as I want 20 steps. Surely 20 steps is jackpot.

     

    Irrational fruiting grumbles aside, this looks more British than most of the other Dutch or German layouts I have seen over the past year. 

    If ever there was a breakthrough layout to ease the euro sceptic emu player into pastures new, I'd wager this would be the one to play. 

     

     

  19. Lady Luck Band of Gold

    in Reflex

       127    8

    Posted · Edited by GeorgeJG

    Downloading this one as £350 put through one last night on 50p/£100 without a three hand feature then last credits miles away from home! I didn't return, so time to investigate and see if it actually streaks. I mean it's not guaranteed, it is a Reflex! The £5 one streaks so let's see if it can be switched onto different stakes/prizes and how it plays.

      

    Of course thanks to Reg and to Wizard for this release.

  20. Orlando Magic

    in BWB

       53    2

    Posted

    A friend of mine used to play this in an arcade that has long since shut down. It was never my cup of tea as I wasn't into lo tech/mid tech style games back then but I do remember those blue 7s could repeat many times. This particular one was on £3 cash £6 tokens and I remember it would repeat up to the £30s if you caught it right. 

    Out of curiosity and for old time's sake I feel that makes this one worth a download, so thanks to andy-1 and of course Wizard.

     

     

  22. Cash Ahoy £5 & £15

    in Impulse Gaming

       213    13

    Posted

    I have played this, but over 20 years ago!!! Eeek! 

    Special number 10.....hmmm just a guess but makes features super?

    I'll download soon and have a play about.

    I remember this being a bit more annoying than most Impulses, so will be interesting to re play it after twenty years of battle hardening sessions. You know once you've had a Black Knight take over a grand for one pick no win for the umpteenth time when purple is there then this will probably seem very tame, but at the time I can remember it being very agitating.

    Thanks in advance woodsy

     

     

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