Homers Meltdown

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:19 pm

Matt Vinyl wrote:
cashbowl

I'd do anything to play this one again... ]

Remind me what Cashbowl was like...?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:50 pm

It was a brilliant £10 machine, each fruit on the reel had a number from one to twelve, if you got three numbers the same in a row, you got that feature. There was a brilliant tactic to bring in the JP from getting 1-2-3 on the reels. Used to make £40-£50 a night from this (when I was 17 (lol) by jumping on it just at the right time most evenings in the pub I worked. Would help someone win a few quid, they'd give me a tip of a few quid, I'd bide my time, and get the JP out of it...

There was a nudge trail that you had to 'turbo gamble' on, and you could nudge in either the fruits or the features, and you had to select which of the three main reels you wanted to hi/lo on.

Not sure why it hasn't been emulated as I'm sure it was standard ACE technology (Impact)

gambogaz1 · Post by **gambogaz1** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:45 pm

What a fruity that was. There was 2 that where similar but only 1 would let you do 1-2-3 or 3-2-1 the other only allowed 1-2-3. There was 2 nudge set ups if i remember 1 for the JP (2-3-4 i think) or 1 For the 7's (7-8-9) which usually gambled out the JP. And if you where good with skill you could drag loads of value out of it.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:00 am

I'm sure the 1-2-3 for JP was something like JP Symbol - Grapes - Strawberry. You'd then pick reel 3 and it'd always give you enough nudges for the nearest win, which in this setup was 5 nudges for JP.

Brillian skill game indeed!

bigv038 · Post by **bigv038** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:17 pm

[quote="Matt Vinyl"]I'm sure the 1-2-3 for JP was something like JP Symbol - Grapes - Strawberry. You'd then pick reel 3 and it'd always give you enough nudges for the nearest win, which in this setup was 5 nudges for JP. ]

that is correct i used to sit on this for hours with my pocket money. its a hard m/c to play if you dont know what your doing, thats why it was such an earner.

rook1984 · Post by **rook1984** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:52 pm

Matt Vinyl wrote:
cashbowl

I'd do anything to play this one again... ]

Im buying one tomorrow mate.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm

alot of these were either kits or rebuilds on old ace cabinets (payrise etc.)
i did a kit with a colleague 10-11 years ago on a day off from being changeboy

6502 · Post by **6502** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:43 am

Cash bowl has been emulated over at the mpu mecca

As for all this bollocks about the maygay code, it was for the engineers data dump,

A small infra red transmitter unit was fitted just below the refill meter (look for a small clear circle on the glass), a (maygay) engineer would come up with a psion/pda with IR receiver and dump the stats without having to open the machine or meet site engineers for the keys,
while dumping the stats the lamps would stop/freeze.

JPM also had a similar setup but not with a button code was with an IR code