Fruit Machine Chat

Do the people who make these games give them a test runout first? Surely they can see how tedious and boring they are? The feeling they should be aiming for at the end of a game is pleasure and desire to try again, not anger at having wasted ten minutes of your life. this is exactly the point. SWP ...

Having a little jolly to the south coast this week, I noticed a familiar name on a machine with some impressive high scores. Given how sensitive the filter is on rude words on that game, I was surprised it let that one through as well... yep, went to visit my goddaughter and squeezed in a few pints...

oh George, you are a scream. i happily stake a fiver on online SWP (where the rake is 25%) but would baulk at some of the $35 games i've seen which are vulnerable to home-programmer cheating. also remember when Word Up offered £20 for clearing the grid, this was in the days when machines were proper...

once upon a time there was a SWP/roulette hybrid machine in gala casino bayswater which would reset itself after every game: quite easy to be joseph jagger under those circumstances.

i know a couple of the old posters are pretty serious quizzers IRL, i've tagged along to one or two London events in the past; the standard really is quite something.

wow 3-letter words, are they really setting the bar that low these days?

in other news, i met with VBOB the other day and he told me that he'd found a unit last month from which he took the WS jackpot (maximum prize) of a tenner.

rocking horse shit all round fellas.

Topical, referencing lola and cerys is deliciously witty, i enjoyed that very much.

and i'm sure that Nil Satis will ascribe malice as and when appropriate.

to be fair, the title of the thread is delicious. i'm almost never in this forum but "buying cash" was very attractive.

the new 10p coins are made of steel so are slightly thicker than the older ones (they are also attracted by a magnetic force). so this is probably why the acceptors refuse them. as for rejecting £1 coins, that is a spectacular own-goal.

quizard wrote:Well how about a Paragon with only gambling games. Watch out for Big Mike's Greyhounds LOL.

and that is not how you spell pharaoh, production values=nil.

agree with goon. i normally dislike bloggers but this post about amateur drunks is quite good:

http://juicecomedy.co.uk/2012/12/30/how ... o-the-pub/

MOTD seems to have been updated (apologies if i am way behind). it has new skill games, one of which is too challenging for my mate. but the production values are good. every cloud etc. PMP still cheats on the bonus round.

we logged in to read this drivel?
can't somebody moderate this towards sentience?

lord fFogg and lady pea-souper: funny because americans are crap at humOr.

afaik Wolf is still active, met him a couple of times. no idea about Jackal but Hyena is all over the place. so what is it with animal nicknames?
i think i'd identify with something deeply unpleasant like a tapeworm, or eamonn holmes.