Left work just after four with a pal, and we went down to the local village for a couple (well...) of pints before the footy. First pub had a DOND Can You Beat... so I stayed clear of that and enjoyed a nice couple of pints of Oranjeeboom (sp?).
Pondered around to the next pub, and:
CADD - £25
First pound rolled onto a nice pile of cash at the bottom of the machine. Offered £8 first board, no more really needs to be said about it's state of play. Plumped £20 through and the top went for a nice £50 off of an IM board. Collected and went back to enjoy the rest of my pint, and three 20-ish girls jumped onto it and piled around £40 through, collecting the odd £3+rpt and ploughing that back in. I was mildly amused, as a) they seemed like an unlikely set of 'players' and b) they hadn't a clue! They left, with slightly lighter purses. I jumped on, MS for £30 within a tenner.
Sweet!
Lucky Devil - £35
This didn't appear to be playing ball, AGB1, losing on 2's, but after £10 I nudged in the three blue dice. I find these a damn sight harder to select what you want when there's no 'graphic' on the main part of the machine (in other words, it's only the alpha display that shows the options). But I worked out the pattern, and hit SnS. It provided me with that lovely slow one, which I'm always a bit nervy of over/under shooting, but not this time (and to be honest, I rarely do miss it!) Collected the £25 and moved on.
DOND (WIYB) - £35
Put £3 into this on 50p play, got the dial on reel 3, played the middle game, collected an offer of £21.xx. Moved on...
Next pub:
Warped - £35
First board offered £10+rpt first go, so the push was on. After £30 in, I had the bonus up to the one before the top (Red Hot?) and on an 11, went lower to be awarded the Warped feature, went for £45. I carried on, and as I hoped, next board was the £35 cashpot job. I knew I could continue playing safely, as I had the safety net of an extra life, and Warped was red. After much poodling around the board, I finally landed on the 2 super shots I needed to get the top, went for £70!
During this time, my pal was struggling with a Billy the Quid, he'd put £20 in but insisted that he left it there (low on funds, and didn't want to borrow from me, so...
Billy The Quid - £35
After £20 in, it offered me the £35 cash shot (!) I knew it was playing well, so left it and continued, taxi'd 3 times (!) to the two super shot square, and got a red BTQ, which shamefully, only went for the £35. Pressed on, and after another £30 in, got the red BTQ again, this time for the £70. (Had fingers crossed for the £105, but alas, it wasn't to be!)
Back across to the other pub to watch the second half of the football. Some fella was playing the LD and had pumped in £70 (as I was informed by my friendly barman!) The guy then left without looking back / finishing his pint, so I guess he'd run out of funds...
Lucky Devil - £35
If the guy had come back within my first £7 of credits, he would've been peeved! First board I pegged out with a £10 safe win. Immediately after that, I succesfully hi/lo'd enough nudges to bring in the £15. Long story short, gambled up to the top which done £70!
Footy had finished, our livers were crying, so on to the kebab house (although I plumbed for a chicken burger!
)Temple of Treasure - £15
Yeah! The memories came flooding back when I spotted this. Barcrest knew what they were doing around '99/'00.
Ordered my nose-bag and popped up to play. Now two of the feature lights were bust (Hot Warrior and TOT) which was a bit annoying, as it offered me one of these first go. I checked from attract mode, and the red lamps were working on all of them, and as I couldn't hear the sound, that was useful, to say the least! The first feature it had offered me was Hot Warrior, never mind, but it gave me a £10 so I was happy with that. A few boards later I was offered 'Secret Passage' (Super Hold) and barcode was there. Now, shame on me I know, but I couldn't remember the 'Follow Me' code, so I think I hit 2-1-3 and got some hi/lo cash thingie, that paid me £9. I put about £10 more back in, and finally got the board I was waiting for. As I was dropping lettuce and sesame seeds every where, I gambled higher than a 3 which gave me a 10+bonus and lined me up with a feature exchange. Slight pause, then the lovely redness swathed across the feature board over to the TOT feature. Bang! £15, Repeat, Bang! £15, Repeat, Bang!, £15, Repeat, Bang!, £15!!! Bank chucked out £4 leaving me to collect the remaining £75... The great thing was, I only started off with £30 and ended up with just over £200*! And it's payday tomorrow...
I always enjoy reading other peoples tales along this vein, so feel free to post 'em.
*Rounds of beer must have certainly set me back a few bob...
In 1 go.
Carried on and it wasn't long before I got lines for another JP off Super SH
