INVINCIBLE and strange memories

JohnK · Post by **JohnK** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:40 pm

So an Invincible £35 popped up in my local, been having some fun with its a great machine for punters to play lol. First thing is it made me think, reds havn't changed their payouts much since the 35's. During the £35jp era u knew if it was red you have more or less got a gurenteed £70 comming minimum, hopefully you would get a 105 or a 35 then a couple of boards later the 70 for example. Nothing changed when the Jp hit £70. You would get the JP then they could give random amounts of 10's and 15's or w/e up to a £105 - practically the same as the 35's with the exception that you might on rare occasions get a 70 - 70 or on very rare occasions a 70-105 - both those payouts were very rare and you would generally end up with the same profit as a 35red - (this isn't including when Our beloved reds changed shortly after the temple of treasure was released etc). I can't comment on the 100's as other than a couple of awp's I havnt messed about with them, thought it was a good time for the misses and me to have a break for a while and enjoy some of the other pleasures life has to offer.

So my strange experiance regarding the Fairly oldskool now Invincible was this and I wonder if anyonelse experianced this or can explain it.

The first unit I came accross was at the redditch train station pub. It was red but the boards were taking 2-20 pound a board, 20 might have been a bit much but the boards were a lot harder toget and numbers rarely held. it was a £25er btw. So I was £120 in and all I had was 1 £25 top. After £140 it gave me a 75£ top, I carried on because it was red from the start and was so much in, a tenner later it gave me a second £75 top. I tried 1 more board and it was still red (after paying out 2 back2back £75 tops) remember it was only a £25jp invincible. I didn't really know what to do at this point, so I carried on and it took all the money back and another £60 to get my next £75 top so I was £200 in. I the. Got a 50£ top then another £50 top so I had around £150 back from £20" and it was still red. The problem was the boards could cost ALOT although Bonuses would be good if u could get one, lots of number runners and random stops sometimes landing on 99nudges. The skill shots were also fairly common in comparison if it would hold that far. Anyway I didnt really know wha to do, I could tell It was playing completely wrong from its basic reel play. I didn't want to go through it all again so the next board, which was still redding I collected a 99nudge tenner as It was harsh on the gambles but any invincible was like that.

So I left some 40-50£ down, no biggie and very confused at its gameplay. When I came back to it the next time I was there it was red again, the reel play still played like a bitch but this time I was able to get 50top shortly followed by a 75 top. I made a quick 90profit so I was happy, I checked another board and I got on from a number runner, I gambled up to super streak and was left on a 7 to gamble to the mega so because I was nicely up on it I collected the super that went for 30£, 3x10's so I left it the .

I started comming back to it twice weekly and it was red constantly but the downside was feel play was tough and it could happily give you just 10boards in £50 worth of credits. I changed the way I played them to not gamble on 5's-8's as you lose most the time on reds on those numbers etc. if I was on a small amount id gamble but Invincibles loved to leave u on a 6 or 7 on super streak making the gamble to mega practically impossible, on those occasions Id always collect and the super which would go for any amount in tenners or fivers between 10&50£. Without getting to greedy because I know this particular invincible can and will suck id just take profits of anywhere between 50 - 150. It went after a month so I was a little gutted as it really felt like a game of pure skill know what to take and when to take it because getting boards sucked and when u got a board it just played like any invincible redding and the wierd eat thing was it was permantely red.

A couple of weeks later an invincible appeared in Bham cc in a gay bar of all places and it played exactly like the one in redditch, sucked for boards but permantely red. most the time I could make a quick 50-150 and be done with it. there were times I got into so called trouble on it if I couldn't get anything decent out of it and being 100in but my best result was 3 x75 tops within £30 worth of credits. Even after that it was still redding but I knew it could suck a lot of money so I'd just be happy with what I got. I went there more or less every evening, obviously bought plenty of drinks to keep money going in behind the bar and half the time the music was loud so they couldn't hear all the money comming out - the 2machines were punted a lot (most gay places they are) and the machine next to it changed twice from an Italien job (turbo cash) to a top gear (remember those? - the final rev/battle axe clone that gambled up from first feature - fun to play).

Anyway - did anyonelse come accross an Invincible on that wierd setting where boards costed but it was red 100% of the time? Only came made me remember recently from playing one in my local.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:53 pm

Yep, we had a unit just like you describe in Leicester, i had a few cheap £105's and i've been over £200 in, what a head do-er that unit could be, great game over all though as were most Reds of that era

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:13 pm

yes , had a few rogue units ,,,,,,, scott will concour with the 1 we had in the forge glenfield

anyhow that one you had in the gay bar john, i unbelievably made about 150 on it once , and it emptied , the lad behind the bar said his mum and dad were at the suppliers and would be back soon ,,,,,,,, now as i had emptied it in about 8 minutes in front of him ,,, slotters paranoia/spider sense kicked in ,,,,, and i thought was this mum and dad line a ploy etc ,,,,, but no it ended up genuine when they arrived an hour or so later and pleasantly gave me the iou ,,,,,,,,

but during that hours wait , i was chatted up by an old fat grey haird bloke who just wouldn't leave me be lol ,,,,,,, i told him i wasn't interested but he kept saying well why are you in a gay bar etc ,,,,,,,, politely had to tell him to piss off , without being too offensive , as i had to sit n wait for the cash.

its going back some years , the smaller gay pub next to the cinema had 15 5liner that played horrible lol ,,,,,,,,,,, the pub across the road on the corner with 3 had loads of good stuff over the years , austin powers etc ,,,,,,,,, these were in the days where i would go every 2 days and sometimes work with travis and leon etc ,,,,,, before you know who and his gang warned us all off with threats ,, ,,,,, last i heard leon got a smack from one of em and moved back to london , where he teams up with greg and their rucksacks lol.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:41 pm

Yeah i remember that unit from the Forge and played the very same unit in various other places, it was in the Sportsman for a while, i once put less than a tenner in it for a £105, another time it cleaned me out and i had to drive 4 miles to home through rush traffic to get more dosh, my mate was running the boozer luckily so watched it for me, i think i got about 8 £35 tops, a couple of £70 tops then 2 £105 tops fairly close together to finish around even, horrid session lol.

doingthem · Post by **doingthem** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:36 am

Rocket moneys top gizas legal tender were the best reds for me everyone else was too busy rushing around the extremes rather than playing out the reds

JohnK · Post by **JohnK** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:14 pm

I played everything at the time, I think there was a supernova just round the corner from there, I had to e careful as I was barred a couple of years earlier emptying the ready2rock. yeah I ears Leon had trouble last time he phoned me but I've lost his number since. trayhop is ur nickname bomber? I didn't know Leon back then, I met him in bear wood and we started knocking around from time2time then when he was living in a hotel. That's why I wouldn't mind gettin back in contact with him. Shortly before that there was a Laundry in star city casino, a few ppl knew about it and even 1lad was driving down from wales to do it. 1 night I got on it and first payout after the £70bank max emptied it (obviously didnt check the hopper with all the cameras so one of the pitbosses filled it up for me, they were used to machines emptying because all of them were on 90% payouts being a casino. When they filled it up without a care in the world I took the gamble to see how far they would go so I kept playing and playing and made 1.5k on it playing it nice and slow, even played thro a hand over so new staff were on until they eventually saw/thought something was wrong with it and turned it off.

It was greedy but figured it was being done by other ppl so if I didnt do it someonelse would and it was a casino, not a pub, I never bank pub machines that can be emptied as that generally means the end of its life. Was my biggest win still to date tho. I've lived in brum all my life (except a 3year break to sort out some personal problems) so Ive never had a problem with certain said ppl.

doingthem · Post by **doingthem** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:26 pm

No way im reading all that cba

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:01 pm

my name is lee ,,,, nickname trayhop ,,,,, or traildrop lol

The Dark Horse · Post by **The Dark Horse** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:29 pm

Bumped into Noel/Leon a little while ago could probably get his number if you really want.

JohnK · Post by **JohnK** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:26 pm

No way im reading all that cba

So the point of replying to the thread was ....

doingthem · Post by **doingthem** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:29 am

My posts are like your return to the game 'short'

JG · Post by JG » Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:20 am

Go back and read it all Kesh, you are being incredibly lazy.

JohnK · Post by **JohnK** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:24 pm

I just thought at the time anyway it must have somehow got stuck into some kinda of if/then loop in its programming which obviously would of then obviously had a negative impact on reel play kinda like an alien/lepro when someone trys for a board on £1stake after a jp or 2 had come out but perma on those 2 known units (could be the same unit but one was £25, the other £35).

CJS · Post by **CJS** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 8:31 pm

Ha, 1.5k on a money laundry. Nice, quite right also about the refloats. I used to enjoy the manager having to fill up a slam after I'd had the second out of it on the thousand quiders or the umpteenth on the 250s. Kudos for the ready to rock mention also. A nice empty it was. Anybody ever remember that ludicrous attempt at a rechip that actually made it easier to do. It would avoid gh usually but would let u gamble your nudges up high if no/small win there and just confuse itself and shuffle bar code etc near. Mind you the very last prog was scum lol. Soon as behind would lose every single gamble every single time on the nudge side. Ha, had it rolling a few times but couldn't move.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:09 am

Wasn't that version if invincible due to the percentage being set generously and on the bookies mode? Pretty sure this was discussed on this site at the time?