A hearty round of applause to BFG

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:25 pm

DOND The Big Reds. Possibly the worst of the DOND incarnations for the casual player. You can only stomach so many 1 pound / 2 pound offersbefore getting shagged by the COB for a nugget.

But I'm not complaining about that. I knew what I was getting myself into long before I fired the first credit in.

What did rankle though, was getting an extra life off the bonus and another extra life off a mystery. Thinking that had to be worth at least something, I then landed on another mystery only to be given GAME OVER.

It would appear that getting 2 extra lives means you get 0 extra lives. Good programming chaps. Another triumph.

Quick Tip: Unsure which features are crap? If it offers you it - it's shit.

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:34 pm

Do I detect the heady scent of sarcasm? Surely not...

So not recommended then?

pickareel · Post by **pickareel** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:12 am

this is on par with the worst high techs ive played,typical senario is play one game ready 1st board and get an awful game so try another board which costs £10-15 and offer £1 £1rpt £2 £2 rpt rapid round and dead,then maybe a cheap board 6-8 2 get another game and so on and so forth,and no real cob potential to get you out of trouble,and do these actually streak?

GlowingLikeAchristmastree · Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:46 am

yes they do, had streak before 3 gatw and then lot of afters, if offers r of 2quid values then you should realise they on there arse n get of them, and these cob are different they only will win to the value it's wanting to pay out. ive never really seen a gd cob when they fucked, as you do the others. overall shit machine, if get lucky got a good 140 roll.

MATT99 · Post by **MATT99** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:57 am

pickareel wrote:this is on par with the worst high techs ive played,typical senario is play one game ready 1st board and get an awful game so try another board which costs £10-15 and offer £1 £1rpt £2 £2 rpt rapid round and dead,then maybe a cheap board 6-8 2 get another game and so on and so forth,and no real cob potential to get you out of trouble,and do these actually streak?

yea they do streaks. but costs a fortune thou. so piss shit machine.

ob · Post by ob » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:31 am

GlowingLikeAchristmastree wrote:yes they do, had streak before 3 gatw and then lot of afters, if offers r of 2quid values then you should realise they on there arse n get of them, and these cob are different they only will win to the value it's wanting to pay out. ive never really seen a gd cob when they fucked, as you do the others. overall shit machine, if get lucky got a good 140 roll.

the cycle on the streak must be well into the thousands, anyone therefore who has got it is a spawny git, and it does not merit giving the machine any credit, this is worst DOND out there by far.

jeffvickers · Post by **jeffvickers** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:18 am

HorseRacingKings RINSED THEM ALL.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:15 am

As I posted in a similar thread, I did spawn the flukey roll 'once!' but every other time, just go for one board and try and get the red £3+rpt. You'll be either a couple of quid down or a couple of quid up.

But agree, apart from this, certainly one of the, if not the worst DONDERS...

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:55 am

Of course its by far the worst! Along with Dream Factory i reckon.

4 reeler - empty
WIYB - empty
Power 5 - empty
CYBTB - At least you can rip them to a degree
HOF - very workable, good money if you know what your doing
WOW - Readable, can manip MS and rip higher boards too with some balls

GaryChandler · Post by **GaryChandler** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:57 am

Beat the bankers are shit.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:20 am

But like most machines, if you catch 'em right, they can go huge...! Took £130 profit in total from one a few weeks ago (yep, I was surprised too!) 3 MS's in a row (all £35) and two nearest wins for £15, which both repeated!!

Just test the water and leave with a minimal loss if not NW / cash not going over £4. Lovely when you land on extra cash and it goes up by about £6...

GaryChandler · Post by **GaryChandler** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:42 am

Do none of you pay £15 for a board to find out its dead?!?!?!?!

Or first board ready play game end up shitty box next board costs £10 same again then before u no it ur bout £30 in to get £3 in your box 2 repeats and it goes stone.

anfield road · Post by **anfield road** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:57 am

Yeah but in say a year you may make £100 in one day and be happy but over a year you will be donw about £2000+ if you leave them alone!

ob · Post by ob » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:47 pm

GaryChandler wrote:Do none of you pay £15 for a board to find out its dead?!?!?!?!

Or first board ready play game end up shitty box next board costs £10 same again then before u no it ur bout £30 in to get £3 in your box 2 repeats and it goes stone.

YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS!!!!! £15 for a dead board, if you get this a few times, you're losing a fortune! These just do it for fun aswell! Mattb you say this is the worst DOND and yet you still advocate forcing it, WHAT DONT YOU FORCE?!?!

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:12 pm

I've chased most things that come out to be honest! Not CYBTB though, Big Reds has a different profile.

Ones i don't bother with now are:

Road to Riches - don't usually respond to forcing for streak
Manic Miner & clones - £55 tops all the time and usually no roll
Open The Box & clones - £100-£200 to go in most of the time
Caribbean Cash - New ones don't ever go in, old ones only streak for 2 most of the time and costs more than that to get.

Maybe that's it. I'll always get involved in Games Media if showing, always chase Bucks/Billy if there, always take reds on etc. Of course you get £15 boards on BTB, i'm not saying it doesn't happen to me at all, course it does! Pretty easy to tell when to leave it though, so its ok.