Megabucks Coffee

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:13 pm

Anyone seen this? It was on what I imagine to be a tester yesterday and was utter rubbish - basically exactly the same as that ludicrous 'drinking game' one except this time the chav is downing loads of coffee!!
Begs the question - why change the original one (which was rubbish too) unless soemone, somewhere has worried it could encourage binge drinking? Has Gordon Brown started playing the quizzers and is going to make them all PC? :P

ROSSKEEN · Post by **ROSSKEEN** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:55 pm

You might well be right. With all the adverts on the TV these days showing the units in a drink, I wouldnt be surprised if the game was changed because of this.

Just another example of society gone mad.

Next thing they'll remove Cluedo in case it encourages vigilante solving of murder.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:58 pm

Funnily enough I saw this just this afternoon, having only seen the drinking version for the first time about ten days ago. I imagine your thinking behind why they bought out a coffee-related version is entirely right. I wonder whether it's got some potential to be honest - if you learnt the gamebreakers in the final round presumably you could get quite good takings out of it?

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:59 pm

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:21 pm

grecian wrote:Funnily enough I saw this just this afternoon, having only seen the drinking version for the first time about ten days ago. I imagine your thinking behind why they bought out a coffee-related version is entirely right. I wonder whether it's got some potential to be honest - if you learnt the gamebreakers in the final round presumably you could get quite good takings out of it?

the spoilers are irrelevant - if you visit the gents it simply stops you winning when it wants to

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:29 am

rogerthymes wrote:
grecian wrote:Funnily enough I saw this just this afternoon, having only seen the drinking version for the first time about ten days ago. I imagine your thinking behind why they bought out a coffee-related version is entirely right. I wonder whether it's got some potential to be honest - if you learnt the gamebreakers in the final round presumably you could get quite good takings out of it?
the spoilers are irrelevant - if you visit the gents it simply stops you winning when it wants to

Ah, OK, two I've played must have been "paying", as both let me through to an endgame, although I came a cropper in the endgame pretty soon.

GreatWonder · Post by **GreatWonder** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:44 pm

Played this on local itbox today. The 'game' play being worse than the awful visual presentation. I've never been put off a quizzer before by the naffness (is that a word) of how it looks. Didn't manage to get to the 'nightclub', am I right in that theoretically you could spend all day on the first round until you're served enough cups of coffee?

kingzilla · Post by **kingzilla** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:29 am

I think a couple of comments that have been are little harsh.
The gameplay even though the same as the other versions is still pretty good and i still think the visuals are fine. I do not quite understand why the developer has bowed to pressure to change the game yet again though and not done something completely different, pc has gone barmy again.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:05 pm

Yosemite Sam game. Keep an eye on it.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:28 pm

QuizMaster wrote:Yosemite Sam game. Keep an eye on it.

"Yosemite Sam"? I've only seen this game once but I reckon anyone with a good grasp of spoilers used by this manufacturer could be onto a good thing.

JG · Post by JG » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:58 am

So the gents can kill you? Like four lynched cards on a Hangman?

You can only get each cup of coffee once. A maximum of four squestion before you go to the gents or move toward the club.

I played this on an Itbox in a bowling alley the other day. It quite often awarded the -->> on the first shot. Answered about twenty questions to get to the club (as I'm a quiz pro).

Then it's the dancefloor. ooooh! The child in me thought it might pick 3*£20 for fun. Gave 20p and it's a killer question. Years, hit singles, not too obscure, but I bowed out. Probably two years between all three options.

Does it wipe out 20 from there on?

If you can get to the club without being flushed down the gents then it's game on I imagine.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:17 am

Once you get to the 'club' (obviously a hangover from the original 'Drinking Game'), you answer the killer and it can't pick the previous prize again so in theory you could get through about 10 killers and guarantee the £20.

Unfortunately, after a prolonged look, I have come to the conclusion that there are 2 main issues:

1/ You can't avoid going to the gents and it has a nasty habit of doing a 'Pints make Prizes' type shuffle where there are 3 Game Overs and 1 coffee cup and they go at the speed of light thus forcing a Game Over.

2/ If you do break through enough killers, the game freezes, which is a shit way of stopping people winning, because it appears to lock the whole fucking box up.

Still, a worthwhile few days' investigating. It's other main problem appears to be that I haven't seen anybody playing it, which means no punter money in so no long term cash cow.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:07 am

Thanks for that QM - most useful. Do I correctly interpret "Yosemite Sam game" as meaning it's a slow-burner? Your longer look suggests not though. I've not go as far as the game hanging on me but that really is rubbish if so - I hope it's not deliberate but fear it will be - very cynical From my limited look it looked like the killer questions were all of certain types e.g. years of number one hit singles (easy), names of Star Trek episodes (hard), positions and times of Tour De France cyclists (hard again). I got as far as getting three killers right in the games I played, which would have got me £2 (whoopy doo).

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:18 pm

QuizMaster wrote:it can't pick the previous prize again so in theory you could get through about 10 killers and guarantee the £20.

I'm sure this is what you meant but, just to clarify, while you can't get the same prize square on the grid again, you can certainly get the same prize value, simply because there are lots of 20p's, 50p's and so on but only three each of the highest values. On my longest go on this I went through around 10 killers and was never offered more than £1 so I binned it in favour of more lucrative pastures.

ZAX · Post by **ZAX** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:27 pm

won a fiver on it the other day- last spoiler question was something to do with the mass of the planet saturn as I recall- not as bad as some of the categories NS mentions anyway. Like QM says though theres nothing to stop it mugging you in the gents if it wants to