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[nick_uk_911]

Ok so i know u guys have all done a best and worst fruite lots of times..heres my view!.. ive been gambling since i was about 12 hehe and still do! I think for me the best fruit machines for making a decent profit and knowing when to leave were when the likes of battle axe, revolution, legionairre, arabian knights, phycho cash beast and other machine like this made what 3/4 years ago now?, they are still in my fav arcade and i rarely lose..(too much) on them because they are normally quite fair and easy to predict if they are paying, the new machines even by barcrest are not crap...the clones after clones such as "fireball"..an awfuk clone of revolution (although battle axe and golden dragon were good clones because they very rarely stitched you on a 2 or 11"), or big cheese/top dog which always rape you for about 80 pounds before paying a jp. The only newey decent £25 that i touch are redhotfever...i find this machine very fair and when going for the jp £50 is the most ive had to fork out, the red hot streak normally goes £35..once i managed a sneaky £45 on . Holy grail is another half decent game..always seems to pay when dropping and is pretty easy to work out whether its gonan drop a jp. Kingknockout now this game is annoying, can play very well but can also play well and still take loads before dropping. The worst game around is italian job and italian job 2, everyone knows it..both arcades in my town have it and ive seen people put thru 150-200 squid without getting a jp..discgraceful!!! So to sum up here's the machines ill name and shame

Machines To Name- Battle Axe/Rev/G.Dragon, Pharoes Gold/Legionairre, Phycho Cash Beast, Holy Grail, Red Hot Fever, Cash Bang Wallap (Very Nice When the repeats kick in), Monopoly 60, Ceasers Palace/Hi Karate, Austin Powers, Lotta Luck, Spice Is Right, Snakes & Ladders, Give Us A Break, Popeye!

Machines To Shame: Italian Job 1+2, Big Cheese/Top Dog, Fireball, Spin On It, Ohh Ahh Dracula, Cash Attack, & Anything Mazooma/Extreme because they are just crud. Ok im off to bed, too tired nite all

[Pgamblin]

Too many to list but i'll go for

BEST , King kebab , battle axe , crazy fruits, machines in the local kebab house Oh yeah...

MINGING , Anything by red gaming , mazooma, lord of the rings / italian job / bank raid

Never Touch , Big Cheese (and any clone of it) Rampage, hyperlinx. the latest barcrest machines.

[NickYerPesos]

What....... !!!!!!! 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O ...!!!!!!!
ITAILIAN JOB AND LORD OF THE RINGS ARE THE f*****g NUTS.
Yeah alright lord of the rings can be a bit of a bitch to play, but dissing Itailian Job... Man i think you've been locked up too much man.
I f***ing love itailian job, such a classic. i like the first one, but the second one wiv Michael Caine poorly impersinated, ive ripped so much out of that man, about £80 wiv about £40. Bloody briliant.
I was gonna buy that the other day.
IT's THE F***ING NUTS MAN."!!!"
8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Bencrest]

Too many to list but i'll go for

BEST , King kebab , battle axe , crazy fruits, machines in the local kebab house Oh yeah...

MINGING , Anything by red gaming , mazooma, lord of the rings / italian job / bank raid

Never Touch , Big Cheese (and any clone of it) Rampage, hyperlinx. the latest barcrest machines.

Damn you PG, putting RG machines in the Minging column!!

BEST - ALL Red Gaming Hi-lo based [except Quake], Monty Python and clones, Cash Run [I like card fans!], Spiker the Biker [mine, 80% £15/20p], Quite liked the BFMs from the Diamond Mine era too, seemed to constantly go red in the pubs I played them in . I did like Vamp it up and Hot Stuff as well, easy to tell when they are ready and the don't save up £95 to pay out 1 JP. BFM Monopoly wasn't too bad, very 'Mazoomaish' gameplay though, too many boards blocked at £2/£3.

WORST - BFM Lord of the Rings, BFM Jackpot Junction + Clones [inc Mazooma Count Yer Cash] Mazooma Stir Crazy, BFM Crazy Fruits [always seems to block at 30p for me, far too popular, and I never got round to trying the £300 bank emptier ], Barcrest Big Cheese/Top Dog/High Flyer/Hot Rocks/Super Star, all of which are f**king awful.

[ady]

Not that my opinion means anything but I really like your post Nick.

As a new member you are using the forum in a totally constructive way and there has been thought put into your points.

Makes a nice change to some of the other things people put in their first few posts or even more!!-but I won't bother writing what they usually consists of.

Welcome from all of the regular posters.

[Bencrest]

Yup, PG didn't have to rant and I didn't have to refer to anyone as a F*****RD, so thats a good start

I like these threads, plenty for people to argue about

[ady]

Oh yeah and :stupid:

[josephnNat]

Can u get KING KEBAB ON THIS WEB 2 PLAY IT

[ady]

OMG...............This kid has PM'ed me Twice and I suggested (and informed him where the tool was) to search the forums first.........Obvious he is here and just want's..........BC, pg over to you..........sorry josephnNat I did tell you in the PM what to expect.

[duplu]

PM'd me too for those Empire ROMs.

[Pgamblin]

f*****g noob. dont you read the knowledge base ?

NO NO f*****g NO ,IT CANT BE EMULATED.

NOW GO HOME YOU UNDERAGE USER WHO CANT FECKING READ AND GET MUMMY TO READ YOU A BEDTIME STORY.

HOW ABOUT THE Three ugly gensis cabinets or snowwhite and the 7player party time.

I heard sleeping fruity is also a good one.

Now sod off and never return..

Back to you ady

[ady]

Evening pg, and just how are you today............ :roll:


Thanks for the sound advice, think we got that ok.


Please NOBODY say no they didn't............lol

[americancola]

Ok,

even though i'm 17 i've been gambling for a good decade or so now so will have to base my opinions on the £5JP machines.

Good:

Any JPM in the Rollercoaster/kung fu/caesars palace era. But those machines probably the pick of the bunch Barcrests of this era also deserve a mention too.

Psycho Cash beast - One of the only modern machines where you actually feel some degree of skill in what you're doing, didnt include Fort boyard/big brother as i prefered the fact you could steal a quick JP from zone 4 and to the best of my knowledge you can't do that on the others.

Impulse. Great graphics, and i liked the gameplay too, mentions go out to Spin on it, Wipeout, and fortune and glory, which deserves a mention as i own one . Shame barcrest now own maygay/impulse now :-(

Crazy fruits/pac man. *ducks* now i know that's really not a wise choice as now any intelligence you credited me with is probably long gone, but for pure playability alone they deserve to be there.



Bad:

Any of the newer barcrests. Who wants to play a machine where it costs £5 to get a board when a JP is £5, probably more playable on £25, i have fond memories of Gimme Gimme Gimme whilst on holiday at center parks, that was always an entertaining game to play.

Championship soccer. Biggest pile of $&%# ever. complete farce of a machine, no playability whatsoever, BWB really made a great job of ruining this.

Modern bellfruit/barcrest machines, and unfortunately as these guys now control almost the whole fruit machine industry, it's not looking good for the AWP industry, i remember a £25 jack the kipper being a total twat, but i remember big cheese not being much better.

Marathon of a first post lol.

Cheers

Drpepper.

[bennie22]

My fave fruit machines are :
Rollercoaster, Snakes and Ladders, Dr Who, Big Shot, Smash and Grab. All from many years ago cos you didn't have to put too much in them before they paid out. Just to show i'm not stuck in a time warp i quite liked/like Temple of Treasure, Money Mad Martians, Spice Is Right and All Fired Up. I thought these seem to be the most playable recently

And the worst:
Battle Axe(and clones), Big Cheese(and clones), any low tech like Bar X, Partytime, Italian Job(and clones), LOTR, oh and anything with beavers on it, cos there seem to be a few beaver machines in pubs round here recently, which are about as playable as eating worms :-( . There are a few bad ones from years ago, but i can't remember them cos of old age!!

[discodancer250]

Best:

Psycho Cash Beast Club - once got £150 outta this with a £1!
Cash Attack - Lots of features and easy to play
BFM Monopoly/Snakes and Ladders/e.t.c - Ablility to collect on question
Jackpoteers - Love this machine when it pays and how can you not know when it goes IM?!
Andy Capp/Viva Las Vegas 6/Adders & Ladders - Classics!!
Big Brother £15jp 20p play - Seemed to pay more than the £5jp vers!
Revolution/Fireball/Battle Axe - Whenever I played them, always played fair
Most Red Gaming machines

Worst:

Party Time/Party Time Arena - Always seems to give nuthin for ages then some Granny comes along, puts 1 credit in and takes £50 from top box! :evil:
Sit down Monopoly - 30p play and never pays
Vivids All for one - Nearly always killed me on the first or second go
Any Empire games!
Barcrests Hot Rocks - played in Stansted and it was crap. Basically
The Rat Pack - can't remember who made this, but complete shi*e.

[djgaryc]

See, now I really like the Global Hi Spirits rebuild - dropped that something stupid new years eve a couple of years back. Also I relly like BWB Double or quits - If only the roms would work in MFME!!!!

Worst - All the ones I don't win on. :evil:

[Irvster]

I am dead borin an that i still dream of finding an ACE games Twilight Zone..i loved nudge nudge $&%# $&%# for years aswell...also anyone remember Lite-A-Nudge...Rat Race was the BOLLOX but i wish the JP was bigger cos the £1:50 JP didnt cut it when i could win £4:80 tokes...lol


Worst have gotta be them electrocoin lo-tech, pile all ya fookin money in and hope for a hold after nudges type that have bred uncontrollably in every arcade you ever go in....Golden Game...always smell of mouldy biscuits due to the fact that some grannie has just done her pension in it while wetting her long johns and cant believe that she only got a £5'er off the top board.

Does anyone know where any of the old ACE 'watch for my hidden treasure' type machines still are...?.....PLEASE HELP ME!!

[mikey95]

Showin me age....

My best machines are ....

around the town, viva las vegas, duty free and if you had money, red,white and blue, party time (old one) and suprise suprise.

My worst had to be....
Big game hunter.. any gala rio cabinet..any RED gaming, lord of the rings or snakes and ladders when it was ripping (once had a bad experience) or early jpm

[robbo007]

Top Bombing machines -

Rich Geezer - peace of piss to win at (no-one else agrees). Get slow bonus, take extra life, get slow bonus, take rich geezer, 25 nuggets in your pocket. Always easy to see when its not playing well

Beaver Las Vegas - quality action, only prob was that it often dicked you when in the middle board and close to jp

Pot of Gold - Most obvious machine ever to know when its happy

Supercharged - Required a fair degree of skill, so often ready to pay after removing amateur players of money

Kieron Dyer-Bolical machines

Big Cheese - Is this the type of cheese you get on your knob? cos it plays like a total c***. Can't remember ever winning more than 3 quid off it. Features are absolutley shocking. Tutti fruity - what a pile of Frank $&%#!

Italian Job - You know it will kill you going higher than a 2 or lower than a 11.... but you still have to do it to prove yourself right!

Hurricane - You get on the board once every £5, you either collect a fiver to survive certain death, or you die on an eleven, great fun!