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GeorgeJG

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  1. Fantastic release, a game I remember well from the good old not so good old days. Cheers!
  2. It'd be rude not to download, rare Party Time Clone. Jackpot Bros still has one somewhere on the South Wales coast.
  3. Neat looking layout, will blast out a streak soon on this....cheers.
  4. GeorgeJG

    JPM - Filthy Rich

    Always the ancestry there that barely anyone knows about, looks like an early Big 50, cheers for the layout.
  5. Worth a download then for a bit of nostalgia (sort of), nice one.
  6. Bedded in RAM (attached) for Slasher's Star Paws release. VTP: 29410 (£2941) Paid out: 23250 (£2325) Target % is 86% on all stakes Actual % is 79% Drift is about £205 in the machine's favour. Can anybody get the £205 drift though? Star Paws.ram
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    JPM - Reel Money

    Used to be in a Shipleys a long long long times ago, cheers for the memories. Precursor to Demon Reels in the Electra cab another top reels cat c JPM.
  8. Thanks for a great layout, looking forward to playing.
  9. GeorgeJG

    Bullion Bars - Arena

    Cheers Reg, never been a fan of these insanely popular games in the wild, time to see what the fuss is all about!
  10. I remember this, Crazy Fruits lo tech clone obviously, usually safe, did have a mean side as well.
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    Bikes !

    Reg's Grifter pic looks like it has been attacked by Colin Furze, crazy decade for sure, still a few kicking in the 80s before things went BMX crazy. Ages of the two girls when pictures taken? Chopper girl (I'm resisting the urge to say it) 23 and the Grifter girl, well, pretty hard to guess I think the hairstyle makes her look a bit older than she is, I'm guessing just about legal (in the UK).
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    Windsor 7's

    I'm sure IGL (previously Diamond Games) are currently eyeing this game and planning to make not one but two replica kits based around the artwork. One will go to Mr P's in Bognor and the other one to some random independent arcade up in Hull. They'll be getting very excited, ah tulllululula dullalala brand new concept red sevens jackpot with multiple coloured bar symbols of a different colouration to our Magic Big 7 game. Come on Dave get that artwork transferred onto the glass on that old cab we've had laying around for ages. Oh tulllululula dullalala, this will be a best seller once we sell these two cabs, Praesepe will be putting in orders in the order of a dozen for the Merkur Cashino. tulllululula dullalala!
  13. Excellent release, a very fair and popular game, still plenty kicking around, not even just at sea sides.
  14. Devastating and very surprising news. I have read through both this thread and the virtual wake thread and it is heart warming to see so many positive sentiments expressed by so many members in our community at such a sad time. RIP Wizard. I didn't know Chris personally and alas never got to meet him. Bar a few PMs over the years (where Chris always came across as very personable with incredible knowledge) I have no idea of his personal life, what he looked like, if he had sugar in his tea etc However if we had met, I'm sure we'd have had a great deal in common like no doubt, everyone else on this forum. We all share this very niche interest and have been united by our journey through life with this lunatic obsession that normal people (whoever they are!) find hard to process. Emulation is the salve to this obsession that creates a unique perspective that has brought us all excitement over the years. I can only really say a few(!) words about my own experiences with emulation to pay tribute to Chris and thank him again for his wonderfully clever creation, fruit machine emulation. So in the younger years of my life, I experienced the addiction many on this site and similar will have experienced and of course the negative consequences which that entails. Without going into too much detail about 'gambling low ebbs', I alienated close friends, squandered my super market minimum wages, got into debt and let my education and personal life suffer. Nothing controversial about that within the confines of AWP addict land, although of course, back in those days if you had asked me about fruit machine emulation, I'd have said it didn't exist (well it didn't back then) and that you could get simulators, but they definitely weren't the real deal, they were a poor man's stop gap. By this point I had signed up to a few AWP forums on line, as Internet access via PC was becoming more common as a household item. I can't remember exactly where, but this link to an emulator was touted on one of these forums. Being of a cynical nature, I was convinced this would be a disappointing load of nonsense. I did made it my business to check it out however as there were some excited noises being made about the emulator on various forums, but I was still sceptical. One name was coming through loud and clear as the mastermind behind this emulator. Chris J. Wren. Well I didn't believe it. I had made up my mind that I'd download this thing and being the expert player that I obviously was, I'd seek out the discrepancies between the real machine and the so called emulated version and put this nonsense to bed once and for all. Surely this was only another variant of some of the Mike Wood's games (simulators) that were available to buy at the time? This Chris Wren bloke had a mighty cheek claiming this was 'emulation'! Or so I thought. So the night came where I downloaded whatever it was you could download back then and I guess I wasn't the very first in the queue as I don't recall a 'demo' version of anything with limited credits but I do recall playing Pot Black by Barcrest as my very first layout on Wizard's MPU3 emu. There may have been other layouts available. I think Super Blackjack and Alphabet, maybe some other Barcrest clubber with beach balls were floating around at the time. However Pot Black was a game I knew well and something my addict self would have sessioned back in the day so given the choices, this was first play for sure. It quickly became apparent that this was the genuine thing. I'm not 100% sure when the penny dropped but it was a combination of the sounds, 'light patterns', timing and obviously genuine game play and profile. Pot Black in real life and of course the emulator, bizarrely never honoured three time holds, but would give let 'em spins. So when the penny did drop with me, that this was not a wind up and was a totally genuine product my scepticism quickly turned into joy. The name Chris J. Wren was synonymous with this magic software and was clearly a name worthy of very great respect. A respect that has lasted for twenty years and hasn't faded with subsequent revisions and sessions on the emulator. If anything the respect can only grow, even posthumously for Chris. Once again kudos to a true legend, the founder of FME.
  15. Was in a Canvey Island arcade in a Genesis cab, same game I believe. Probably doesn't narrow it down much for hardware/tech, sorry.
  16. Always save before exit unless you've done something crazy. I think you only have to look at a layout a bit funny and MFME asks if you want to save it before exit. Anyway congratulations Bungle on your first(?) layout I look forward to playing this, it looks like something a little bit fresh and different.
  17. Proper bingo fodder, downloading now to give the grannies a run for their money. Cheers!
  18. GeorgeJG

    Spell Bound

    Looks like a very leftfield idea, never played before, looking forward to trying, thanks!
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    Revolution Wdx

    Aha, a good reason to download the latest MFME. Looks like a great layout.
  20. Great work. No need to travel to Family Leisure Soho now to play this!
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    Fortune Pot

    I had never played these back in my youth nor set eyes on any 'Castle' games. So here is one emulated, I thought why not give it a try as I have seen a few Youtube videos of them and they look like fun. Cheers for the layout.
  22. Ah yes, I could never remember if this or The Blue Rinse or Grab a Granny was Mazooma's first UK market AWP release. All three games were quite 'streaky' if I remember correctly. £40+ for a board was not unheard of!
  23. Wow, I never realised this clone (or looks like) of 4 Reel Dond Classic and Take the Piece existed, I never saw one in the flesh so to speak. Great layout.
  24. Yet to play it but the thumbnail looks awesome, hopefully the slow (pause) chip with the big streak in there. Will have a bash later, many thanks.
  25. I never saw this back in the day, but I'm guessing it has better playability than most modern machines with 'Reflex' plastered on them these days
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