What's the worst machine you have ever played .....

999329753 · Post by **999329753** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:02 pm

Used to love royal roulette/pick yer pesos etc etc. Quick turbo cash to see where it was at and if offering 7+ just force out for evens/ small loss or the run.

Mr Move It · Post by **Mr Move It** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:04 pm

PMK wrote:Unfortunately pink panther is gash if you don't how to read or play it.

Although I've been interested in fruit machines since 2001, I was always at best, only a casual player. I mainly play for entertainment value. It just puzzled me that the 'Gettin Ziggy Wit It' counterpart played a much more entertaining game than Pink Panther. You're probably right though - me missing something obvious in Pink Panther.

PMK · Post by **PMK** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:24 pm

I don't think you'd want to play any remaining ziggys that are left around now!!

Essentially the same machines if played in a normal manner tho, ur panther must of been getting done!

Captain.Tattybojangles · Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:05 pm

I've been losing my patience with some of the old Barcrests, namely Hot Rod. Got on the board a handful of times, and first move was always the cops, who caught me. Actually I lie, first move was me ONCE, to a speed trap, MOVE BACK. Cops.
Crystal's rebuild of Rollercoaster is also an unpopular affair of mine. The boards cost too much, and the bottom game plays dodgy in the way of holds and trail helds. Might just be a broken machine where it is, but I don't like it.
Snakes and Ladders has done me in nasty as well. Had a nice stash of coins so played one and got binned on a 4 on 20p cherries. It took all of my money without even nudges after this. And the top didn't do a nice amount either when my mate played it

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:05 pm

Crystal rebuilds of JPMs were notoriously bad - Caesar's Palace in particular. Nasty stuff!

logopolis · Post by **logopolis** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:51 pm

Darn good machines. Especially the Crystal rebuild of Pot Of Gold.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:34 pm

pony express was an emptyable and pink panther had a pretty big rip in it too.. so not suprised that you couldnt get them to pay out.

logopolis · Post by **logopolis** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:38 pm

999329753 wrote:Used to love royal roulette/pick yer pesos etc etc. Quick turbo cash to see where it was at and if offering 7+ just force out for evens/ small loss or the run.

The amount of times that Roulette did runnarge in Felixstowe Family Arcade was massive!

JG · Post by JG » Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:33 am

"Oh this oughtta be good!"

Crystal rebuild of Fairground. Seemed fairly faithful, bar it was a bit more shy with those nuts.

Right worst machine. So f**king tempted to put it through today. I really was. Wish I'd brought my landrover with me to the arcade. This IS the worst machine ever. Are you ready?

EMPIRE (The return) B3.

I'm sure you're all familiar with BLOOP!. What sorry? I'm sure you're all familiar with MEGA BARS, MERLIN, FREE SPIN 500 and the other Project shits that need smashing. Well I was tilting as there are only so many switched off/gone/empty machines you can go and view. So I had found myself in a service area. £300 in for £136 back, the first £100 was pretty much to % with a few little wins making it up to £90, so on tilt I ploughed in my float plus a couple of notes. The last £200 in for £46. I wanted to see what the feature does as it doesn't say anywhere. That £46 was made of a thrilling combination of wins from £1 to £6. Always Xs. I still don't know what the feature does. Three monkeys in a row = £3, Four = £5. Tight. I think they forgot to program the feature into the game. It just advertises it on top glass. I'm sure Kidgloves/Ridye/Buddylove have probably had it for £2 in, but apart from those strangely magnetic individuals, I think the normal man on the street would have to pay £1000 per feature if it even exists.

It makes Rainbow Riches Pots of Gold look like a p1 dial. Absolute shite.

philips1985 · Post by **philips1985** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:55 am

pink p's are great easy profit even on duel hopper 5 pound

i had 60 out of my local one

and its a 5pound as well

easy money

:P

Captain.Tattybojangles · Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:51 pm

Any dual hopper panthers with stake change about? or did they not incorprate this with the £5 ones?

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:16 pm

Captain.Tattybojangles wrote:Any dual hopper panthers with stake change about? or did they not incorprate this with the £5 ones?

Never seen a panther on £5 with a change stake option, there are £5 ziggys cabins with change stake but they dont round up.

Captain.Tattybojangles · Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:29 pm

Dont know why they didnt put change stake on em. most of the others have em.

Anyway, another terrible machine, how about that Empire one Jumping Gems? The one that like, never pays the Jackpot? Also the Fruit Explosions, whether it's an emulator issue, but they never pay Jackpot from the board. Shocking.

kidgloves · Post by **kidgloves** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:14 pm

JG wrote:"Oh this oughtta be good!"

Crystal rebuild of Fairground. Seemed fairly faithful, bar it was a bit more shy with those nuts.

Right worst machine. So f**king tempted to put it through today. I really was. Wish I'd brought my landrover with me to the arcade. This IS the worst machine ever. Are you ready?

EMPIRE (The return) B3.

I'm sure you're all familiar with BLOOP!. What sorry? I'm sure you're all familiar with MEGA BARS, MERLIN, FREE SPIN 500 and the other Project shits that need smashing. Well I was tilting as there are only so many switched off/gone/empty machines you can go and view. So I had found myself in a service area. £300 in for £136 back, the first £100 was pretty much to % with a few little wins making it up to £90, so on tilt I ploughed in my float plus a couple of notes. The last £200 in for £46. I wanted to see what the feature does as it doesn't say anywhere. That £46 was made of a thrilling combination of wins from £1 to £6. Always Xs. I still don't know what the feature does. Three monkeys in a row = £3, Four = £5. Tight. I think they forgot to program the feature into the game. It just advertises it on top glass. I'm sure Kidgloves/Ridye/Buddylove have probably had it for £2 in, but apart from those strangely magnetic individuals, I think the normal man on the street would have to pay £1000 per feature if it even exists.

It makes Rainbow Riches Pots of Gold look like a p1 dial. Absolute shite.

I think you ought to pair up with Buddylove and go and play a B3 Leps. If his luck is so good and yours so bad then I want to be there with a camera and film the results.
At the very least I want to see the circuit board go up in flames whilst the RNG tries to find a number that will suit both players going halves. Really I'm hoping for a tear in the space time continuum as a result of the ob factor not being able to generate a result for such a combination of players. Whilst this tear is in place I'll slip in and out and nick all the emptiers for 2011.

Buddy Love = Hero

JG = Mr Glass

JG · Post by JG » Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:26 am

COLIN! (chortling out loud in nude)

I have extraordinarily dull luck when it comes to B3s. To be honest my luck is incredibly average, so I'm guessing the game I get, is the game normal people get and the reason no one plays B3s any more.
Put a load of hi-tecs next to B3s and you'll see more people on the hi-tecs. Alas it only takes one restaurant owner to put in £4000 for £2000 back (all these B3 machines have a true target % of 50%), the displayed 90% is what you might get back from a tenner (but more likely not. Yeah one reatuarant owner and that's the reason these machines are still around.

So WHAT does the 5 monkeys do? All these luckboxes around, someone must have got 'em? I'd assume due to rarity of feature and applying the Lugsy principle of being underwhelmed I'd expect 5 monkeys to pay £18.