Cash Attack

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:28 pm

Are there any 'guaranteed' £35 or possible £35+ features that use those notes at the top of the machine> MS is just the old 'roll in a series of wins', whereas I 'hoped' it was shots at the notes.

This is a strange one this, as there does seem quite a few blocks around the £6/£8 mark, but get past this once (on the cash trail) and it seems to top out. Fair dos, I've only forced it three times, but each time I've been losing only about a third of the way up the board, and then the first board that goes past that goes all the way to MS.

Not as bad as I first thought, although board cost can certainly be an issue with this if you are 'testing the water'.

Bring back the Wobbler!!!

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:37 pm

You've just been lucky again there. Don't be surprised to see it lose on £30 or even £35. Can be random after this and die immediately. I was also hoping MS would use the notes, and have never take notoriety/notey boy and have no idea what theyre worth. Anyone?

mashman · Post by **mashman** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:53 pm

Apologies for my error, i meant to say I took red super streak and that went £35, just wandering if its always 35, i assume not....

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:37 pm

mashman wrote:Took red mega streak yesterday which gave £35, is that normal or rare occurence?

Very normal, but it's difficult to say whether it's capable of doing more. Sometimes the next board might go straight up too.

I played one this afternoon which allowed me to nudge in the Gold 7s for £20, won the next gamble (which is £30 on the cash stack) and then killed me going lower than an 11. About £40 later, it finally went up and went flat. Very confusing.

I'd say of all the machines out there at the moment, this one is a real candidate for a first board MS. It seems to be able to gamble all the way up when you least expect it, making it hard to know exactly when to leave it. But as Matt said before, there are low down features which can pay big amounts, which you could try for to see whether they're ready.

7th Heaven brings down the next 7 on the first reel, then matches it on the other 2 reels. So if it's a Gold 7, it's a quick £20.

You're Barred! does the same with the bars. So the triple bar is a quick £6 (yet it's very low down on the board).

Something else to keep an eye on is when the auto-nudge win is the green bars (£3.20): there's an extra nudge on the green bar on reel 3 which in many circumstances gives you enough for the blue 7s for £8 instead. Trouble is, if you autonudge it won't give you that extra nudge to use, so do it manually and see whether the £8 is possible.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:05 pm

My opinion of the machine is constantly being raised by surprisingly good results. Not one sting in about 7 forces now, and a huge one today. Got a £20 nudge win after bugger all in (first one i've had!) and had a 1 on the right hand reel. 2 gambles for MS then. Didn't make it to the top of the diamond, as the MS on the stack came first. A cool £80 MS followed by some 7s feature (seven spinner?) next board for a fiver.

Anyone tried COB on here yet? Not bothered myself but i wondered if its worth using.

GaryChandler · Post by **GaryChandler** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:25 pm

I spotted one of these the other day in the same pub as a mummy and one of those snakez and ladderz thing which aint heard to many good things about, i think some doing the pub because panther is always dead and had been 150+ off last few times i been in there????? so might have to give them a miss.

how many people have had any bad experiences from this?? just want to know so it might be worth playing in future.

Cheers Gaz.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:41 pm

Nixxy wrote:Something else to keep an eye on is when the auto-nudge win is the green bars (£3.20): there's an extra nudge on the green bar on reel 3 which in many circumstances gives you enough for the blue 7s for £8 instead. Trouble is, if you autonudge it won't give you that extra nudge to use, so do it manually and see whether the £8 is possible.

Likes doing this quite alot, same as the original cash attack for those old skoolers, always manually nudge it.

Mattb wrote:Anyone tried COB on here yet? Not bothered myself but i wondered if its worth using.

Tried it twice, once for bust and once for 8 KO's (£20).

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:53 pm

Matt Vinyl wrote:Are there any 'guaranteed' £35 or possible £35+ features that use those notes at the top of the machine> MS is just the old 'roll in a series of wins', whereas I 'hoped' it was shots at the notes

I can partly answer this question now:

Notoriety This feature lights two of the notes (top left of the machine) at a time and you press collect and win the combined value of the two notes lit. When I got it, it started by lighting the bottom two notes, £5 and £10]Notey Boy[/b] This turned out to be a Hi/Lo Climb up the notes using ANY number available on the two number reels. It went easily up to £20, then lost going higher than a 2. The display then said "Let's Try That Again" or something like that, and allowed me to continue gambling higher than the 1. The next gamble lost, so it paid £25.

IE. Notey Boy is NOT a JP feature, it seems!

I must admit I'm loving playing this machine atm - no-one else seems to be hitting them round here and I have 3 easily accessible Cash Attacks on my route home from work. They were all full tonight, and the highlight was one of them doing a £75 MS after £6 in in an O'Neills pub. I doubt such luck will last!

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:12 am

Good stuff, nixxy! I guess I'd take either of those if I were only a few quid in and I didn't want to risk my 'always goes to the top when you get past the block' method!!

I haven't played the one near me for nigh on three weeks now, it's in a 'horse-racing' pub (not my thing) so it's often full of old gits having a punt, and so this machine gets played a lot by them.

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:47 am

Matt Vinyl wrote:Good stuff, nixxy! I guess I'd take either of those if I were only a few quid in and I didn't want to risk my 'always goes to the top when you get past the block' method!!

I haven't played the one near me for nigh on three weeks now, it's in a 'horse-racing' pub (not my thing) so it's often full of old gits having a punt, and so this machine gets played a lot by them.

Sounds like a top party

The thing with the two features on the extreme left and right of the board is that they almost HAVE to be JP features, as they're so hard to reach; it's like the board on JPM's old Wizard Of Odds m/c, remember that? When you won a gamble, the reel would either say 'Move Up' or 'Move Across', so it was extremely difficult to get Move Up everytime. Hence the two 'opposite' corner sqaures were both Jackpot.

With Cash Attack, say you nudge in the £4.80 bars (or better), the only realistic way of gambling over to Take Note or Notoriety is to be given a starting square half way up one side of the board. Either that or simply get lucky on the hi/lo on 7 consecutive occasions!

Does anyone know what the difference between 10 knockouts and 10 strikes may be?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:13 pm

Very true!

I'm only guessing, but are strikes 'progressive' like the Super Strikes on Games Media machines, whereby KO's are not progressive?

Might have a punt on this today, it's only across the road...

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:28 pm

You could get a good horizontal taxi to get the note features - but as nixxy says, being at the extreme ends of the diamond where you'd need to exclusively use one reel makes them damn hard to get.

Had one of these run for £35....£35/flash £70 yesterday off about £110. I just know if i'd been playing an Open the Box that was £10 ready i'd be £110 in with no tops and through a dead patch. It's immeasurable how much better the profile is on Cash Attack. I do actually rate it - well done to Barcrest for changing that awful OTB/Bank Volt gameplay.

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:41 pm

I've not seen an IM board on this yet ... is it blindingly obvious, or is it a discreetly flashing Barcrest logo - a la Yabba Dabba?

I can complete the detective work now:

Take Note All the notes flash very rapidly, and you hit start and it either awards a note win or lands on the word STOP. I got it this afternoon as a result of getting a start 4 up on the left hand side, and getting good numbers (and a handy No Lose). It gave me £5, £15, £5 and £5. A £30 win. So not a JP feature, Argh!

This was swiftly followed by a Cash Advance bonus whilst I was very high up on the board, which boosted the cash stack from £20 to MS without me having to do any more work. I left it about £15 up.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:51 am

I'm afraid its an unmissable IM :P The two military blokes on the top glass flash like mad, impossible to miss.

I quite like the sfx on here too (i know some of it is recycled).

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:19 am

Heh, yep, it is funny to hear a lot of those old sfx again...

"The boy's clever, the boy's good!"

"Haaaalllt!!"

Feature music is quite catchy too, along with the nudge / bonus music...

For the record, put £50 in for a £70 MS yesterday, so not terrible. I think that Extra Life is one of the better signs on this one, or just bonuses being offered generally. I started the board with three steps twice, both times pegged out on a 2 going to a 1, however...