Fruit Machine Chat

A few more games over the weekend have confirmed my first impression, namely that the prizes on the end game seem to be all as easy/difficult to get as each other, which as I said contrasts markedly with Bullseye (for me at least). The same cabinet included the new Cops and Robbers game, and I can o...

Hi QM This isn't really what I meant: The higher prizes are not easier to get than on Bullseye What I meant was that the higher prizes don't seem (from my limited number of games admittedly) to be any harder to get than the lower prizes on this game . The main reason I don't give much time to Bullse...

On a Paragon 3 in a pub called Coopers in Reading - the details are in the recent I-Spy thread. This is the only place I have seen the new game so far but I'm sure it will be appearing elsewhere pretty soon.

Good luck with tracking one down and, when you do, I'm sure you'll then agree with my description of the game - the ghost of Bullseye hangs heavy over this one. As for whether I like it or not, my three word summary would be Not a classic but that is relatively high praise from me compared to what I...

Spotted today on the new Paragon 3. It seems in fact to be a hybrid, the result of some careful interbreeding between the existing Battleships 3 and Bullseye. The game has been split into two rounds - the first being very similar in look and feel to Battleships 3, but with the familiar bonus structu...

I had my first proper go on one of these new-fangled widescreen Paragon 3s today and it's certainly an odd experience. As tka noted, the Bullseye dartboard gets turned into a flat oval and a few of the other games are distorted somewhat as well. However some of you will no doubt be relieved to know ...

Back on thread... spylover - if you can get up to Reading there is a new widescreen Paragon 3 with the the visual I-Spy game on it in a pub called Coopers, which isn't far from the train station - details here: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/20/20655/Coopers/Reading . It's not a game I ever ...

Yes - it's nicely designed and good to look at but seems to be hopeless in terms of actually winning anything. Now where have I heard that before...? You have reminded me however of a lost classic, which was also based around spying etc. It turned up a few years ago on the Gamesnets, around the same...

Apart from all the issues that step7 mentions (to which I would add - the risk of getting thrown out and/or barred) the major issue I would raise here is that the games you mention (Hex Appeal and Monopoly) just do not lend themselves to making this kind of approach profitable in the long run. This ...

Spylover

Whereabouts are you based? Presumably like most of us there's a limit on how far you can reasonably travel in search of your dream SWP...

I remember my mate Gordon telling me that quizmaster only paid out if you beat the previous high-score, so obviously the idea was to raise this score in the smallest increment possible. That was exactly right, Foxy - I used to play it with another quizzer and we would take it in turns in that one w...

Thanks, QM. The name doesn't ring a bell but you may be right. As for your namesake, I do remember that one from my University years in Liverpool. It was a real golden find to unearth one - there were only ever three in total that we ever found in a city that size! The contemporary game that I playe...

A PM conversation with a fellow Fruitchatter has made me think back to the first games I ever played. This for me is going back to 1985/86, which is probably before one or two of you were even born! The main game around when I started playing was Give Us A Break, which was based on a Dave Lee Travis...

I would normally dismiss this story as urban legend except for three things: (1) I know it is possible to win lots of money from certain games if the right combination of skill, knowledge, hard work and gameplay come along. (2) I have personally witnessed people whose skill at one particular game se...

Guys Without wishing to introduce a brand new stereotype - the Sycophant - this is one of the best and funniest threads I have ever seen on this or any other forum! It's just so true to (SWP) life! All in one morning as well. Not sure what to call them ('Permission to Kill?' perhaps) but another ste...