Money Spider

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:45 pm

Result!!

Ok, Lost about £20 on this last night, but got it back today. Couldn't tell if it was backing, music on. But was playing alright, then suddenly had an extra life and double shots bonus, got a 1 to a skill stop, so went to the middle with a extra bonus, andd higher than a 1 for MSpider. £35.......... Drat!
Next board upto £20 on the middle board, took that, followed by a fiver straight away. £60 from about £15.. chuffed.

Its a stingier version of JTR&R, I dont like the idea of a cash stack for the middle board.

Thats my first ever JP from the bonus stack though!! Came at a very nice time, on a machine i least expected it from!

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:54 pm

Right, Ive played this a bit more, and it is a below par machine. Its very Stingy, infact its daylight robbery compared to JTR&R, BUT if you play it right, you will still do ok, all be it not as good as JTR&R. The middle board is a huge let down. Theres just no point of being on it? A cash climb wont go high, JTR&R threw in Random £15 cashpots, this never will!

One thing, Take a Red cash amount first go it WILL repeat.. I ignored this a couple of times tonight, should of taken..

starstrike · Post by **starstrike** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:59 am

I had an experience on this last night that is enough to put you off playing for some time.. I had put around 70 quid into one where it was showing lots of reds and allowing me to gamble up at first. it would then take at least a £10 for a board and would loose on the turbo gamble most times. Then I got the three webs and the machine went all red. I was thinking well I might get some cash back now. LOL it died after about 4 spins on the board the best was a £3 rpt which maybe would have gone for £9 at best. well now at the £70 point in I was pissed off so at a 50p entry I gambled about 6 times on the first cash shot higher-lower where it offered £35 JP. After that I clawed another £10 from a shot. I lost a high low to complete all the big money symbols after £50 in. Also I was offered a standard super streak which would have probably gone for £7.

All in all this is very bad machine. Even for games media. I felt that coming off about £25 down could have been a lot worse. I am sure it does streak well if caught but it was so random and the constant turbo gamble losses were really annoying. Never again except for an odd board maybe.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:04 am

I've not had as much experience of these as the other clones, but have always done reasonably well. There's actually quite a bit of gameplay to them once you get on the board (I agree that Turbo Gamble can be a right pain in thy arse!)

Gold Rush seems to be the best one for me at the moment, I've had 3x£105 out of them over the last week and a half. And those were all tops, not counting the other wins I've had banked up.

These all seem to be about collecting at the right time and forcing at others - you can usually tell when you are on for a good board or not, purely from the first shot offer.

You can also pretty much work out which features are crap (90% of them!) after playing for a while, as the good ones will be the ones that remain (There's usually 2 or 3 that are worth £10-£15+)

I'm also 99% sure that Red top features on these, if they go past JP value, will always at least go for another full JP. Anyone confirm?

starstrike · Post by **starstrike** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:29 am

I think the main point is that these form of machines (JPTR&R type clone) in my opinion are getting worse with every variant. I agree on this that the central section is not very good. it seems much better to fill up a cash pot than a stack. also there are loads of arrows on the inner boards so you probably won't stay on there long. the features are all a waste of time as well unless there are like 3 left that are red.. where you might just get £10-£15 if lucky.

Are fruities generally offering less enjoyable play now, esp since £35jp were introduced?

milk monitor · Post by **milk monitor** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:35 am

For the casual pub player I would defiantly say yes, and also for the "In the know" player. Although now for me, profit is more important than game play.

Think back to the days when Hot Stuff's and Hellraisers were everywhere these 2003ish machines were much more fun to play. The game play that exists on BFM / games media / barcrest / and even reds (although good money makers, tend to just hold down start and shovel money in on most occasions) is absolutely atrocious - maybe because it has happened gradually that we forget how bad it has gone.

I prefer £35 machines to play, but as far as gameplay is concerned I believe it makes them even worse.

bowie · Post by **bowie** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:54 am

Out of all these clones i would definately say Warped has been the friendliest i've played, at my work we had a JPTRAR which was there for 6 months and played terrible, then Warped came in and seemed a LOT better, now we have a Money Magic because the Warped was faulty and it's just not as nice, on top of that have played a Gold Rush with no luck either.