Empire

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:16 pm

Hey Plum, it's really interesting to hear stories like this.

Clever stuff, too.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:46 pm

Re. the flashing button, most of the ones i played were of the 'cracked from corner to corner ,bulb not working variety'

,can't say honestly if i remember them flashing differently (on the ones that still did).
**edit ,just remembered they did a rapid flash on a guarenteed winner....but not always!**

a cunning plan ,a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call a weasel.that was the plan to make the alpha fuck-up and strange bleep (should have made all the bulbs dim and the speaker crackle whilst it clocked up in slow motion

)on 'frogs' when a semi-skilled pseudo player nailed the 'rise and fall' on diddly . i love that ,none of our 'ickle locals knew about this till i casually mentioned it some months back..........i thought nothing of it at the time ,it seems to have given the tired old machine a new lease of life though

btw steve ,glad to hear your reputation remains untarnished by 'haunted 2' and 'fish called wonga'

JG · Post by JG » Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:34 pm

I quite liked the reservoir frogs profile, a good chance at jp+repeat and rise and fall, if not going for zero, good for £2.40
Tombraiders is in a few arcades around here. It can kill first press on the nudges though and I thought if you stepped to 2 or 11 and gambled into a big win it could kill?
The streak is bonus......super boost or stoppa......TOMBRAIDERS for £5/£10/£15. That's usually that though.
Another good one from the Reservoir Frogs stable is CHACE THE ACE.
"Tally Ho!"
"Chocks away!"
All fruits lit is hidden features and pears awards mix or match which does cherry, mix, cherry, mix, cherry......bonus win......jackpot.
Catch the baron for winning series.
I played Return to The Haunted House on £25 jackpot. I remember thegame, it was unique, but quite steep for the casual.
It took £100 off me in cold blood and I scraped £74 back and felt like I'd call it a day as it still wasn't full after that 1'er on a £125 hopper. Some Chinese lad jumped on and got two jackpots off about £10 for a refill.
I've never really played TSar Wars (although it was in Cov Student's Union a while back) or Cross Fire.
What was that other one in the bowling alley in Falmouth next to the unchipped Royle Family? Also quite a tough profile? Hot Shots I think it was called, unique game.
Someone was moaning on Fruit Emu about an Empire game (£15 jackpot) taking £300 no win and still not giving jackpot.
Loving all these top boy coding cheat stories btw.
These top boys have definitely got it all sewn up. I bet there are emptiers for Reel Kings, roulette, you name it, they'll be emptying it.
You know we are at the top boy's mercy. We have to keep them sweet otherwise every machine would be like Hurricane, but then you say that and look at the boost to the cashbox those 'cheats' created.
Think Beat the bankers in COB hell, full and so far behind it wasn't funny with a chock block box.
I just wish I could capture a top, top boy and keep them locked up in a cage. I'd tickle their feet until they begged me to stop and I'd only stop when they told me all their best emptiers.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:50 pm

i'd never stop,i'd have them permamentally chuckling away over a few lines of utterly skanky code which i'd made them put in under threat of chinese burn

,deffo get that reel king umptier sorted quick style.
the mix 'n'match cherry,cherry ,cherry,JACKPOT!!!!!! was not confined to chase the ace. haunted did it as did others i'm sure,and that fooking sh1tty old game that said " double bubble" wot were'nt ever any good wot i can't remember the name of coz i'z bin drinken' agen, hic.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:19 am

"Duuuuble Bubble!"
"Crackpot!"
"Yooooou're a Geeeenius!"
"No, no, no, no...!"
"We've blooooown it!"
"The demperature's rising!" (It's how he said it!)
"Hold reel 2!"

I still remember the cheesy 'skillstop' music too. Ha-ha...

Eureka, if anyone's interested. Used to play this on £8 / 10p a pop at a local nightclub, so many casuals would do their cab fair in it! Plum, were you involved in this one at all?

Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:07 am

I'm afraid not - it was all hoppers and front-opening cabinets by the time I got there. I'll have to trawl through the archives to see what games I was involved in. Diamonds are Forever was one, although it didn't do much for me, and there was also a Clubber called Skullduggery which was a bit like CCnR with a bit of CCC mixed in. When you consider that there was just one guy there writing the software when I was there, they still managed to churn out a lot of games.

Hot Shots - that was a cracking game if your skill was up to it. It started as a failed test machine from Red Gaming. They offered it to Empire and they took it and re-badged it. On the first chip you could trick it into giving Big Money sometimes and it used to lock up trying to find a way out. The fixed version had a very tough profile but when it sprang into life you could get at the tasty features for 2 or 3 jackpots, one a Stop n Step affair which slipped about 4 symbols so you had to hit it early, the other was a cash ladder climb typical of most Reds, except this would let you get to the top if you were good enough. I remember back in the Superarcadia days *someone* posted about this game when they found it in a pub. A very Riley-esque rant about the savage profile and about having LOSE burnt onto their retinas or something like that. For me this game made it very easy for the player to see exactly what Red Gaming's profile of the time was, and it saved me from a few tannings on their other stuff.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:41 am

eureka! yep matt, [/i]you have found it

uber-pro · Post by **uber-pro** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:36 am

Hot shot, the thing with the square grid?

Think I was posting on arcadia in those days, but dont think I complained too much about it! Did find one and probably mentioned it...

Was a £5 one in a bookies up untill about a year ago near me too... Still one in glasgow.

Was told you could empty them too? Maxing the value off every board, it was just chit chat and nothing soild. Not that I really cared.

May pay more attention to these types in future, but rememeber 3 holds and let em spins not working on these in my youth so being annoyed!

Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:00 am

uber-pro wrote:Hot shot, the thing with the square grid?

Yep - that's the one. I think the reason they sometimes emptied was because people used to play them so badly. You really had to skill them out because they made it almost impossible to get the three tridents for the top.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:12 pm

i'm not suprised if people have ranted about hotshot ,i once witnessed a mate put 130 down the back of one of these without surviving a single question mark or getting any further than the fourth press before he finally managed to trap a flat 25 with no after play

,it was in that skanky john clarke arcade in weston, that machine seemed to play a lot better on cat d than c, a 5 pound one round my way was'nt exactly brilliant but in no way was it a complete bitch that i remember the 25 one being.

spotted an empire 'the full mounty' in a pub today never seen one of those before ,it was next to a vivid 'crocodile rock' lol ,and across the bar was what looked like an original millionaire cabinet but on closer inspection it had about half a dozen games on.......still very old though just like alot of somerset stuff lol.

harry13.50 · Post by **harry13.50** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:49 am

Was there not a way to get Cross fire to pay out over the percentage every time ?

I remember getting sent the roms from someone that where miles behind and him saying he couldnt tell me why.

This was when the machine was quite recent.

gmckee03 · Post by **gmckee03** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:59 pm

Eddie i remember someone saying about apache before i tried it but didnt work lol was it only certain stake/ prize that worked?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:29 pm

Mystery_Plum wrote:I'm afraid not - it was all hoppers and front-opening cabinets by the time I got there. I'll have to trawl through the archives to see what games I was involved in. Diamonds are Forever was one, although it didn't do much for me, and there was also a Clubber called Skullduggery which was a bit like CCnR with a bit of CCC mixed in. When you consider that there was just one guy there writing the software when I was there, they still managed to churn out a lot of games.

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There's a Skullduggery in my local WMC, Steve. Takes a fortune.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:46 am

gmckee03 wrote:Eddie i remember someone saying about apache before i tried it but didnt work lol was it only certain stake/ prize that worked?

The one it worked on for me was £8/10p

psyman · Post by **psyman** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:28 pm

I found an Ant Rap on £70 on my travels last week.