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Oh dear, oh dear. Barcrest now have DOND license!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:47 am
by HornyNick
Played a juice tonight, new game DOND Crazy Boxes. From Barcest with the full DOND branding. Total clone of Crazy trails. Thats a good start isnt it. Is this what we have to expect from digital Barcrest now? DOND TIOLI clones, DOND Dublin Up clones, DOND Rainbow Riches clones etc etc. I really cant wait....

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:38 am
by BFK
That's interesting.

Not seen or heard any news on this.

Will both manu's now be releasing even more or have crest pinched it off BFM? Either way bell fruit towers will be hacked off!!!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:36 am
by ridye
Scientific Games have a license to use the DOND brand, for the DOND games on the FOBTs. So that is where it comes from probably.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:32 pm
by ob
Who cares all barcrest do now is make video screen games anyhow

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:33 pm
by Johnny's Amusements
Barcrest suck for stopping reel based machine production.

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:53 am
by HornyNick
Been back to this a couple of times, dire every time. One thing I noticed though, every time it starts up the reels are always <Jackpot> <Lemon?> <Jackpot>.
Bit cheeky methinks!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:37 am
by kong
Barcrests have had reset reels like that for years! The older stuff used to be <JP> <JP one above> <JP>. If something like a flicker is showing these reels on a Saturday afternoon I always figure its worth a quick try...

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:38 am
by kong
Or did you mean every time you load the game? In which case, yes! It is a lot cheeky!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:46 am
by big A
everytime i try a flicker on these reels its 15+ for a board

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:19 am
by Mr McStreak
Imagine what the AWP scene would be like had the game Deal Or No Deal not been invented....

<<SHUDDER>>

In your local Spoons you'd have a Magic 7 next to a Bar X 10, and over by the toilets there would be a Triple 7 Cabinet with various shit games on it, and a single player Golden Game on which the Let 'em Spin disappears for no reason for up to £100.

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:03 pm
by HornyNick
kong wrote:Or did you mean every time you load the game? In which case, yes! It is a lot cheeky!
Every time you load the game!
4 maybe 5 times now I have been on it. Cant be a coincedence!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:06 pm
by Matt Vinyl
These digital units are tedious. The 'Menu' button is located just below the middle hold and I've pressed it numerous times accidently without looking. If you get a 'Hold Reel 2 for xxx" and accidently press the menu button, don't expect the game to remember it offered you that when you load it back up again.

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:31 pm
by HornyNick
Not on the Juices, Matt. The wierd thing on the Juices are the Menu button is top right. On some games there is no problem, on others there is no response what so ever, you have to wait for the time out. At first I thought it was a screen problem but when I realised some games have no problem it must be bad coding or just plain laziness.

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:53 am
by Matt Vinyl
Ah, sorry, I'm talking about the Gamestech jobbies. ;)

They really seem to be running these machines on a shoestring though. Look at the response you can get on a pretty basic PC nowadays - even with a touch-screen monitor. These just don't seem to be up to scratch thus far...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:57 am
by tommya
Slow sluggish delayed annoying just a few words that spring to mind