Mr McStreak wrote: Yes you're right, my mistake. Fucking piss poor game too.... Red hot ibiza was great when it went on a spree.. ohhhh babyyyyy....
Most bell friut games played like shit from that era but the sfx were very impressive.
Who Dares wasn't the greatest game, although you could nick a JP from "Shoot the Loot" - can't remember the exact detail but it was a special symbol on the middle reel that you could nudge in from the board.
SFX were impressive, although Tina Turners Simply the best was a bit cringeworthy as the choice for the jackpot music!! The whole pub knew what that meant, a whole tenner!!
Northern Monkey wrote:On most machines now the GATW is so obvious that it takes any element of knowledge out of it eg the DONDs which even if you ignored the alpha, just fill up the mega streak within two spins.
I totally agree with you. I can name one machine (+clones) that was on both sides of the coin there. Fort Boyard. Before the chip, the 1-8 pre-game trail would fill up when the number reel rolled in red numbers 3 7 & 11. Once the 9th segment of the game trail was lit red, then you were invincible. It was nice and subtle though, probably not picked up by the most casual of punters. After the chip however, upon lighting up the 9th segment in red, the machine did an in-yer-face light chase for a couple of seconds while playing a fanfare. That was made 'slightly' more obvious
Houston wrote:I bet most players fell for the false hope on Horn Of Plenty as it continuously flashed the name on every feature.
Hahaha! The comment about your friend made me laugh :-) That was rather cruel of Barcrest though!
Nixxy wrote:
The first time I really became conscious of an IM board of any description was noticing the logo on JPM's Casino Las Vegas change colour, and the first time I clocked an IM that was worthy of ignoring in order to up-the-win was The Great Escape.
Was that the similar layout feature to Sonic the hedgehog ?
Was it the 2nd mystery that could give roll up for an 11 that went to add again, then that would go to add again, then that was either JP or Skill 2 from JP ??
Twas nice when it gave that slowdown mystery out of the blue, wasn't it!
Sonic was the clone that gave boards more cheaply, and obviously was a real license coup for JPM at the time - it was in every other pub.
In other news, I saw someone announcing they had an IM from 3 leps on a £500 Rainbow Riches B3 (the lights on a Triple 7 cabinet glow red when on ANY feature and are meaningless) which provoked a lot of laughter when it promptly bummed-out on £15.
This machine may at times offer a choice where the player has every chance of bankruptcy
