Time to stop playing?

Boulderdash · Post by **Boulderdash** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:11 pm

I've played fruits since I was about 10 years old while watching my dad play cricket.

Over the last 35 years I've seen AWP jackpots go from £2 to £3, £4, £4.80, £6, £8, £10, £15, £25, £35, £70 and now £100.

I financed my uni degree emptying £4.80 and £6 Ace machines at £90 a time where the numbers on the reels paid a prize but the computer forgot to count it. That lasted years! Now even the slightest manipulation and the machines are chipped remotely.

Value is near impossible to find.

They stopped being AWP when the jp was about £25 as the money needed to have 'amusement' became far more than you'd ever take to the pub for a couple of pints.

And that's when they really stopped being fun for me.

Today for example I was on a circuit of the town and got pulled out of a hole having done £30 in a Golden Game, £20 on Double Up, £20 on The Big One and £15 on a Fiddle a Fortune when I went back to the Golden Game and cash or bust went Cashpot.

It's sad because I love the games but even winning the jackpot now is mostly 'Meh'. I think the notional jackpot has reduced with the £100 jp as they only repeat once whereas I occasionally had £70 machines go for £210 but I've never seen a megastreak go past £200.

Nowadays unless you chance upon a machine someone's done their buttons on you're lucky to ever see a feature offer more than £6 and they can take £300 or more before phoning and even then the game only has two values over £25.

Sad.

bubbles · Post by **bubbles** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:51 am

can goldens bust cashpot?!

BFK · Post by **BFK** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:56 am

Boulderdash · Post by **Boulderdash** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:31 am

BFK wrote:Yeah

They can and do. The thing was dead as a dodo though so I never expected it. I should know better but I was so bored I thought I'd push £50 through it to see if I could get it phoning but it wouldn't even play the super game let alone deal.

Paid all in coins apart from the two tenners I'd put in so I was a lucky boy to come away even for the day.

Roll_With_It_Russ · Post by **Roll_With_It_Russ** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:16 pm

Whilst theres machine there will always be money to made, just these days the stakes are higher.

25 pound jackpot days, earnt 500 a week.

100 jackpot days, don't earn 2k a week... not in this job.

think its the case your average casual punter just does not have the spare cash to waste.

25p stake could be better programmed thats for sure

fatbloke · Post by **fatbloke** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:06 am

respekt

bubbles · Post by **bubbles** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:08 pm

500 easily attainable from £3 cash era onwards!

Roll_With_It_Russ · Post by **Roll_With_It_Russ** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:33 pm

Was talking about employed jobs.

ridye · Post by **ridye** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:37 am

Imagine if you were a casual and your first experience of a fruit machine was say Maximum DOND. You would be put off playing further fruit machines right there and then!

With Astra in charge what do you expect though!

fatbloke · Post by **fatbloke** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:46 pm

weeee

Ruler of The World · Post by **Ruler of The World** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:26 am

Do Golden's bust cashpot LOOOOOOOOL

doingthem · Post by **doingthem** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:16 pm

Very very rare to bust cashpot

bubbles · Post by **bubbles** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:49 am

Ruler of The World wrote:Do Golden's bust cashpot LOOOOOOOOL

that aimed at me was it Ruler?

doingthem · Post by **doingthem** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:27 pm

Think the only way can bust cp is by saying it off the message