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- Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:13 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: demise of quiz machines factors and solutions (main body)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 174167
Also,what has happened to Subz? I've seen plenty of examples on my patch. I accept I am not the target market (although who is?) and I may be missing something obvious but the few times I've tried it I've found it completely impossible to make any sort of score. Sadly as I still haven't seen a sing...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:22 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: demise of quiz machines factors and solutions (main body)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 174167
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:22 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: demise of quiz machines factors and solutions (main body)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 174167
In all seriousness, do GW still exist? Their website (the last time I checked) was extremely out of date and none of the suggested things seemed to have come to fruition? They do still exist, but they now have a shiny new website with lots of pictures of games and a real push towards their Tourname...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: New menu?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 150648
Yep, many no doubt do but very few of them will take more than the same floor area (remembering it's not just the table itself but all the space needed around it) filled with drinkers or, more relevantly these days, a few tables with people eating. That's the point I was making - pubs have to balanc...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:44 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: New menu?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 150648
Can I ask a silly question, why were the SWPs always set around 40% - any historic reason or was it a costing basis? I guess the fundamental reason is that SWP games offer a lot more playing time for each credit, so they need to take a much higher percentage of the stake to be worthwhile. A fruit m...
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 1:08 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Will this finally be the death knell?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 39054
Will this finally be the death knell?
Unless the companies are prepared to put in the investment required to update all their old machines, will this be the point when we can finally bring down the curtain on our little world?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37820622
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37820622
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:29 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: demise of quiz machines factors and solutions (main body)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 174167
That's my view. In simple terms, some of what has brought us to this point has been outside the industry's control, most notably: - the reduction in the number of pubs - the change in the nature of many of the pubs that have survived (towards food and away from any form of machine) - the availabilit...
- Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:40 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: companies getting the message?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 53173
- Sun Oct 16, 2016 11:54 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: companies getting the message?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 53173
- Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:35 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Banning Banning Banning
- Replies: 18
- Views: 50503
Amazingly just been playing a machine and noticed a riposte from a long time contributor to the site, a Mr Nil Satis who as an option recorded 'stop your moaning!' Evidently he is Frankee to my Eammon (as in Fuck you / FURB). Duet in the pipeline? For once I am stumped as to what you are talking ab...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:46 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Help Needed Please
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23824
I don't think people are being deliberately unhelpful but this Forum is mainly read by quiz machine players of various degrees of interest/age/dedication, as opposed to us being operators or owners of the actual machines, so most of us wouldn't have a clue where to start. Speaking thus as a non-expe...
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 1:23 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Nice word on Word Soup
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23657
Word wizardry from a long time ago...
http://www.cantab.net/users/nfm24/ewq/scores.html
Ah, Sum Up - now there WAS a game!
http://www.cantab.net/users/nfm24/ewq/scores.html
Ah, Sum Up - now there WAS a game!
- Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:52 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Hang Man Saloon
- Replies: 23
- Views: 112244
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 12:34 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Can anything be done? Part 95
- Replies: 33
- Views: 71653
We're on the last rites now I reckon. That's my view too. Things are too far gone by now for there to be any realistic way back. I have seen a minimum 50% machine loss in all of my locations (which cover a reasonably wide area), and in many of the nearby towns that's more like 80-90%, and even 100%...
- Sun Aug 07, 2016 1:13 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: New game on the Paragons - Subz
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18263
New game on the Paragons - Subz
Well, not yet but "coming soon": https://twitter.com/GWHL/status/751368409766559744 Apparently the idea now is to think of a plural word, change the "s" at the end to "z" then release a low end arcade game based on the new word. This one looks awfully like an old game I...