Graham the goldfish

Oh I remember playing this, albeit on 5p play. I remember it being a bit of a rip-off of the hidden treasure games, but oddly I liked this one more on 5p than the ace equivalent. I don't know if this was because the machine I had was punted, but it always seemed to play a much better game than the ace games on low stakes.

Thanks for this, but it doesn't load for me. It causes MFME to hang during boot.

Yep that's the one! It might have been a £25er, but I remember if being more. Is there any chance Jersey had a different Jackpot, like the Isle of Man has its own all cash rom chips?

I think you're right. It might have been called who wants to be a zillionare? Although I would guess the same manufacturer. The layout with the cards at the bottom and the 3d pyramid trail on the top glass were exactly like this.

Ah I used to play this in Jersey airport. It was (as far as I could tell) true skill. There were barely any machines on Jersey and no fruit machines at all. However this was £40 jackpot (or maybe 50 jackpot?) rather than £10. There were squares on the trail that gave bonuses (extra life, boost, stuff like that I think). I'm not sure how terrible people were at it, but the first one I could take out fairly reliably despite it being strategically placed under a dozen glaring strip lights. The second jackpot was a lot harder, getting notably faster before it got to any cash squares which made getting dozens right in a row much harder.

This is a really good game from bellfruit. You get an extra boomerang for each exchange between cash and features. 4 boomerangs fills the boomerang bonus, then all the boomerangs are filled every time you exchange so you only need to gamble once to exchange again. Filling the name either from the bonus or nudging in the numbers will give you a knockout after you collect. So if you are on £7 with the name filled, you will have a knockout for £10 or jackpot. The boomerangs can be red, which makes the cash a repeater and the feature super. Cancel will sometimes light during the hi-lo. Hold it down for a single no lose hi-lo, but beware that using it normally means that death is imminent after that. Use the nudges to bring jackpot symbols close for super hold/super super hold. Fruit lines also could be jackpot, with super giving a boost after the win. Super stop n match was a slow skill stop on the middle reel for jackpot. As with its clones the exchanges can be erratic so a low down cash value of feature can exchange high up the opposite stack and vice versa a high stack can exchange right back to the bottom. The best strategy is normally to always exchange even if the exchange seems unfavourable. Gambling past the exchange points is normally a shortcut to a lose and the exchanges come back quick enough. A higher feature is also not always a better feature, so it requires a bit of thought. These have a 75 streak in them and even after that they'll often let you take another jackpot out of them after the streak for a 100. Similarly, even without the streak they could often have enough value for a couple of jackpots. There is a show on it to tell if theres a jackpot in it, but I can't remember what it was after 20+ years. Invincibles were obvious to anyone within 50 metres and those boards would often just exchange from the first exchange right to jackpot. As mentioned, theres a predecessor to this called happy fruits which was very similar but a little more volatile in the way it played IMO. After this was 2 more clones, 1 was happy notes which replaces the boomerang bonus for a £5 note stack I think. That was a little trickier to jackpot early because accumulating the note values made it a bit more progressive. There was also 1 more clone with a completely different profile that I forget the name of. Not a terrible game but I remember it being completely progressive and also completely flat profile, so no streaks and at best you'd be getting a few quid profit from it -- of the 4, the only one not really worth buying a coke for.

Ah this was a rare game I think!? I only saw one of them and remember putting a couple of quid in and zooming straight to the end of the feature, only to be given three quid. That was enough for me that day and I never saw the machine again!