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[avengah]

Can anyone help me with the name of this old PCP machine. It had a WILD symbol on the right reel, which awarded a bonus if it landed on the line during reel play. When you got on the board, or got a win, sometimes it would play a little jingle and the third reel would spin round slowly, and if you stopped the WILD in view it would advance up the board or win plan by one step. It would then either give a faster go or allow a turbo gamble. One of the features (Skill Cash I think) was also a Wild Thing, where the maximum win was 50p. The machine itself was 2p, £2 jackpot. It had a fruit matrix of 4 rows, 3 columns, and each line was a nudge, I think, if I remember correctly. Sometimes once you got a line, the word "EXTRA" would light up by the matrix and you'd then get free spins to try to fill the rest of the matrix before it went on the board. I remember it was great fun to play - once I got up with JP on a diagonal line, therefore needing 2 nudges (as they were up and down), and it gave me an exchange (skill pick a trail), so I picked nudges, and it showed £1 at the top for some reason, can't remember whether the lights weren't working properly or not, but anyway, collected and it autonudged in the jackpot! I used to love that Wild Thing feature - showing off to the others in the arcade when I was about 15!

[stevedude2]

The game you describe avengah is called Fruit Connexion, and you're quite right it was by PCP. I used to love this game; they had it in Mr B's in Weston-super-Mare a good few years ago. I started a classic layout for this a few weeks back when some ROMs turned up courtesy of Ploggy at MPU Mecca, but I ran into problems with the third reel because when you get the Wild Money feature or even a Wild Bonus the reel doesn't move. Also the last reel keeps going out of line. Stiffy also did a layout a while back and had similar problems so he binned it. Hopefully one day Wizard will iron out these small issues in a future release of the emulator. Until then, why not try TTX's classic layout of Cash Filla (MPS 2 layouts on here), as that was fairly similar. There were some glass scans around somewhere but I can't find them...