SWP player breaking cover

BFK · Post by **BFK** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:53 am

Can any one of u guys remember the name of a quizzer that they use to have in my pub?

Was a standalone unit.

Had multicolour squares highlighting the different category's and was 3 rows deep. U could tell if there was value in it by the size of the scaled down version of all the coloured squares that sat at the top of the screen. The shorter it was, the more ready it was? Was £10 jackpot I think. Must of had a very small bank of questions as even I mastered it and had numerous jackpots.

Anyone remember???? Think of the machine I'm on about?

Topical2009 · Post by **Topical2009** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:41 am

BFK wrote:Had multicolour squares highlighting the different category's and was 3 rows deep.

That sounds like Inquizitor, one of the early classics. I loved that game almost as much as I loved Every Second Counts (which was a lot)...62 seconds on the clock, 49 triangles to clear.

Topical2009 · Post by **Topical2009** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:41 am

BFK wrote:Had multicolour squares highlighting the different category's and was 3 rows deep.

That sounds like Inquizitor, one of the early classics. I loved that game almost as much as I loved Every Second Counts (which was a lot)...62 seconds on the clock, 49 triangles to clear.

tonkarentino · Post by **tonkarentino** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:12 pm

cp999 wrote:My first JP was on 26 April 1986. I only know that because the Chernobyl disaster also occurred that day.

The very first day I played a Quiz Machine was 29th. January 86 which was the day of the Chellenger Shuttle disaster....

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:26 pm

i played my first one in 1986 aswell , cannot remember the name of it whatsover but in must have been on or around march 13th and completing a trinity of world disasters it was the day that the sun reported that freddie starr 'ate my hamster'

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:33 pm

For using the porn line he should be given a good hammering.

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:36 pm

Did anybody ever get approached by a machine finder who would locate machines for a fee? Idid at the BIC.

7-10-2-7-LOSE · Post by **7-10-2-7-LOSE** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:59 pm

Very interesting read.

So, COM, how many questions does the complete game have or is that information that will not be shared?

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:06 pm

It isnt relevant really how many questions a game has anymore.What is pertinent is how the machine can protect itself from pro's either by offering reduced amounts after wins or using blocking questions that either to be fair but fiendishly hard or questions that are very hard to learn being extremely tedious/hard to research/innacurate or similar to many other questions so that it is easy to get confused between questions and the answers.The flaw with COM was the jackpot or at least small amounts that could accrue into a decent amount was always potentially available.The guy in question as far as I can ascertain by my contacts had very limited experience of quiz machines and therefore had one major advantage over the players like me namely he was not bored shitless by the speed of the game and the banality of the questions.He was very singleminded and did not play a broad spectrum of games.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:05 pm

cool wrote:The guy in question as far as I can ascertain by my contacts had very limited experience of quiz machines and therefore had one major advantage over the players like me namely he was not bored shitless by the speed of the game and the banality of the questions.He was very singleminded and did not play a broad spectrum of games.

Agreed about the singleminded aspect, not about the bored shitless bit. I did talk to him for about an hour second time I bumped into him, and even on the first time where we didn't really get on very smoothly a certain level of dissatisfaction with the process did come across. I've done a lot of thinking over the last few days about what was said in our conversations and I think he does feel he should do something "better" with his life, that it's a waste of his brain, that there's no job satisfaction etc, all the things the naysayers would come out with. In practice whether it will be that easy for him to find something else which solves the above problems I don't know. If the media barrage is an perverse attempt to find something more stimulating (which I hope it is), then good luck to him, though I could live without what really isn't a particularly interesting or unique story being given airtime. If it's ego-driven, oh dear oh dear. I have a different attitude to what I perceive his to be - that the money and lifestyle I've accrued from machine playing has given me the opportunity to do things I probably couldn't do if I'd spent my life in a conventional work structure; thus the ability to do these things constitutes job satisfaction, and the boredom merely a means to an end. Oddly, both views might be right.

Layla68 · Post by **Layla68** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:42 pm

Topical2009 wrote:That sounds like Inquizitor, one of the early classics. I loved that game almost as much as I loved Every Second Counts (which was a lot)...62 seconds on the clock, 49 triangles to clear.

I LOVED Every Second Counts! Oh my. To be transported back right now!!

I hit my first Jackpot during a night out to celebrate my boyfriend's 22nd birthday! He, my husband now, turned 47 yesterday! I also remember the King's Cross fire later that week....

Enjoying the nostalgia here immensely. Cheers All.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:10 am

His disillusionment with his current vocation is similar to mine. He went after a BFG question bank which only really existed in quantity on COM, apart from the odd Wacky Races/QI rubbish but let's face it, if it's not on a Paragon you're screwed for locations so he had COM probably all to himself. Paragon's security systems are not locking him out because he is only taking the money that is available to win i.e £20 per machine because there is no competititon from the hardcore pros. This is why I latched onto Pub Quiz years ago, to avoid competition with guys who were chasing BTL, BAM, MOTD etc. Clever pros target the GW question bank but end up in a bigger pond, hence the recent game design changes to BAM etc. It's a clear indication that they know that you're there, otherwise why else change it?

He's a one bank guy. If GW pull that game, he's fucked and he knows it and he can't be arsed putting in the hours because he's met cp999, who is the absolute GW question bank king. Suri's a fucking amateur by comparison.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:58 am

top boy alert.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:14 am

I don't know, there's still room for improvement. I know someone who was better at the original Super Gold Run bank than I am on GWs; superior format too.

Anyone want to own up? May or June 2011, pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. English player came in with a friend (driver?) who ordered a half and a coke. Player stood behind me, watched me fixedly on YHW (a much better game than BAM, incidentally - £20, 50p, lose trail) for about 2 mins whilst I went from 30 odd questions into the last 10, went back to his friend and said "we're leaving" or words to that effect. Whole scene didn't last more than 3 mins and it could not have been more obvious as to what was happening. I'm almost certain I've seen the guy in question before as well.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:07 pm

I used to stand behind Suri and do that to him on Pharaoah's when he didn't know who I was. Used to rile him to fuck.