Chopaholic

1m48s should be the charm.

It's an interesting conversation to have but in this case I honestly think the critical mistake was the code not looking ahead enough and accounting for the other factors that could lead it into a situation where the DOND game could be trapped, and then the invincible (as the mechanism is the same, filling up the boxes). BFM's DOND output was notorious for being doable, some players say that basically every single DOND they made had something on it at some point.

Yeah it really felt like they were playing were fire with that mechanic. I never worked out the emptier myself (never had a real one here and I don't have the skills to work out that sort of thing anyway), but when I first played it in the emulator I thought, 'Hmmm, this seems a bit risky', and so it proved! I talked about this in the video I made for it, direct timestamped link: (For some reason this video got age-restricted.)

But that suggests that no one noticed you can gamble on the SPIN squares until you're one away from getting to something important, during the entire coding and testing phase. You literally just need to play the game for five minutes to work that out.

It's granny-tastic!

Your backup strategy (or lack thereof....) would like a word Only DX I seem to have for this is the old @wayfinder DX which in fairness still looks and plays fine. Attached below. Can't say for sure it's never been supplanted by a better one as MPU3 machines aren't really at the top of my most desirable list September 2003, bloody hell. Big Shot.zip

Ta-daaa!

I found it got more challenging in some regards but never in an unfair fashion, as you get more powers for your characters and new abilities to use and whatnot. You do need to work on your base as well though for the benefits it confers, so it's very much a game of two halves.

Loved this game Got a solid 30 hours out of it and basically maxed it all out, highly enjoyable. Had every building in the game in my base (whether I needed/wanted it or not), and effectively infinite resources too as my industries were so well organised (I don't have much gold in this screenshot because I'd just been splashing it around on anything and everything, but I could make thousands of gold from my mines whenever I wanted to.)

If you mean this one then no it was a different machine, but also had its own clones and semi-clones.

I covered this in a video on my channel a few years ago, as MFME emulates it. From a factory reset it wanted £124 before it finally offered a £20 jackpot board.

They do keep to percentage, the problem is with 'standard' percentages of the day they'll just grind you out against that 74% or whatever it is and make it borderline impossible to ever win. @Boulderdash has put some serious play into Top Tenner and outside of the (very!) rare big(ish) repeater on the £2, they're death by a thousand cuts. Well, probably not even that many cuts. Low RTPs and low volatility are a pretty toxic combination.

Aye that's the fella. Very boring game to play, but it looked splendid in a dark pub, that picture really doesn't do it justice. Like basically all late era Barcrests it was very flat profile and had nothing interesting or appealing about it as a game, take away the method and there was nothing there.

Red did a few half interesting machines on MPU6, that HOT HOT HOT and clones for example which had an actual sort of cashpot mechanic to them and a true skill feature that could pay £50 even on a mostly dead machine. In the Barcrest space they did a lovely looking Star Wars game with loads of super colourful LED lights and stuff that was marvellous to look at but basically just a TIOLI clone with non-upgradable boxes.