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[kevertq]

Mon Dieu,

I feel sick! Ive been out of the system with bad guts for the last 3 months. Tonight was my first venture out into the real world of pubs. WHA-APPEN!

These 'new' £35 jackpot machines are a nightmare. You cant play them for shovelling pound coins in. Even a small time gambler like me was scared witless. I must have put £40 in, in less than 3 minutes (Deal or no deal). Got most of it back but thats not the issue. Does anyone know if these things are paying their way ? It seems if someone like me, who has played fruit machines since the days of the purple penny in Blackpool, in the mid-70s gets the hee-bee-gee-bees by the amount you need to put in to get a play of any kind, how are the grans and grandads going to cope with the odd-quid here and there. All I remember is the arm ache from keep feeding the money in!

Bring back the £15 / £10 jackpot machines I say.
Karl C

[nails]

AFAIK the budges saw the change in tax on £35 machines to bring them in line with £25, some £1000 cheaper in tax (roughly), therefore its will be more viable to have the new jackpot in place.

If you think you cant handle £35 jackpots, then i have some really bad news for you..

£500 jackpots are set to appear in pubs and bookie this year, rougly August onward. Not sure if they have crystalised the plot, but £500 club machines seem to be the way to go. s16 random could also be prey to this new law, with the possibilities they may be converted from a random machine, to a AWP with proper aiming percentage. this could spell disaster to the punter who already spends more than he can afford, and great joy to the operator, who sets party SLUTTO from 94.x % to a lovely 72%

Could this mean that rather than take £6k to drop a £500, it could take over £10k to drop just one £500 ???

gulp

(all text my point of view and based on rumors within the trade, so dont bother stevedude2)

[skabaz]

they are pushing for the 500 fruit machines in the bookies but i think it will still be long time before they are in pubs.

baz

[Fruity_Goodness]

I must have put £40 in, in less than 3 minutes (Deal or no deal). Got most of it back but thats not the issue.

Yeah, I "lost" £50 in a Deal Or No Deal. 10 minutes play (no shit). Got the 3 x telephones and got to play the Big Board for £5.45, £5.02, £2.60 and went on to the bitter end for a £1.60 win. I think that was the only cash win I took out the machine.

£50 for 10 minutes of worth of fruit machine entertainment. Poor show.

[frig]

I tried a £35 machine a couple of weeks ago, I cant remember what is was called, but basically it sucked £50 in under a few minutes and spat out a whole £2 from the main feature, after getting three thingies in the window. A bit of an anti-climax really.

[Gazeyre1966]

Sorry guys but I've no sympathy for you. The answer is to stop playing them full stop. Then the manufacturers and the government will have to rethink matters. If I even contemplated losing £50 in a matter of seconds on these new machines then I would demand to be put to sleep on the NHS. Come on guys!!! Wake up and smell the coffee.

[Sunistra]

played the deal or no dela thing myself other week got huge 1 pound off phone bit could took 3 pound after putting 15 in kinda pointless really left there went to snooker club played there machine first press question mark extra life im thinking good start next another question mark then game
most new machines getting really crapey bring back the 15 pound spiker
least when i lost i enjoyed it

[f1fan]

AFAIK the budges saw the change in tax on £35 machines to bring them in line with £25, some £1000 cheaper in tax (roughly), therefore its will be more viable to have the new jackpot in place.

If you think you cant handle £35 jackpots, then i have some really bad news for you..

£500 jackpots are set to appear in pubs and bookie this year, rougly August onward. Not sure if they have crystalised the plot, but £500 club machines seem to be the way to go. s16 random could also be prey to this new law, with the possibilities they may be converted from a random machine, to a AWP with proper aiming percentage. this could spell disaster to the punter who already spends more than he can afford, and great joy to the operator, who sets party SLUTTO from 94.x % to a lovely 72%

Could this mean that rather than take £6k to drop a £500, it could take over £10k to drop just one £500 ???

gulp

(all text my point of view and based on rumors within the trade, so dont bother stevedude2)

I think i stay away from them, ive stopped now as ive won £180 before and then when u look at what u lose after not worth it.
Im sticking to odd play on £5 10p machines now and also emulators seem to have more fun on them.

I might have a go on Sec16 machine once a month but no more then £10 or £20 max now.

[nails]

they are pushing for the 500 fruit machines in the bookies but i think it will still be long time before they are in pubs.

baz

nope, there out already, a saw a 20 win line golden game yesterday..

[Guitar]

nope, there out already, a saw a 20 win line golden game yesterday..

The end is nigh.

[civilcalc]

To be honest I havent played enough of these to comment.
Played find the lady poker today, its like joker poker, put over £100 in, gambling all wins for jackpot repeat, found that if you go lower and get a 4, always go lower again, it is always a 3!! eventually got jackpot repeat and it paid £175 in total... so not bad, but I put a LOT in. I think these machines struggle to cope with the % and still offer a decent playability.
I have played the £35 deal or no deal, always playing for the mega streak, had it 3 times, never more than £35 :-( think the way to play this is take anything over £7, deal or no deal feature should always offer £7 at some point.

[skabaz]

did you see it in a pub nails???

baz

[schnook]

i was in a pub/restaraunt 2 weeks ago and they had new machines there.
there was a guy throwing money through one like no tommorow 100 pound coins, from sheffield or down them ways. said they were trialing a new type of machine and these were 2 machines of a batch of 8 in the uk.

for the life of me i cant remember the names of them they were clones of each other. 4 reels mazzooma. you could do the conventional 30p play or a special 50p play. usual get to the top board from numbers and get 3 symbols from a board going either hi/lo or spin. i took 80 pounds out from 30 quid in and they were really enjoyable to play.

wether that would change when they go out into the wild properly i don,t know. i was in blackpool last week and a few arcades and pubs since and havent seen them since so i dont think he was bullshitting as he wasnt playing them as a player but banging the money through like no tommorow.

he put shit loads in after i won the 80 and he had seen me.

so hopefully there might be hope. and he also said what nails said about section 16 , but he said they would be gone in september.
and in our 3 local arcades funnily enough they have gooten rid of nearly all s16s now replaced with new video machines not s16 with multiple machines on one.

[hilolottery]

they are pushing for the 500 fruit machines in the bookies but i think it will still be long time before they are in pubs.

baz

Do you know yet if this is gonna happen for sure? I was told 500's in bookies come september but nobody seems to be sure, I assume they will be replacing the AWPs.

[Bencrest]

Didn't they already trial £500 machines in pubs in some areas?

Not ones with 5 reels and 20 winlines, but ones with 20 individual sets of 3 reels on an LCD display, where you could pay 10p for each set of reels?

[skabaz]

its earmarked for september for the £500 fruitys in bookies also they can be converted to £35 jackpot for the pubs.

ben

yeah that has been trialed but they failed miserably.

baz

[eFRUITY]

Yes it was a barcrest Jobby called "The Player" you could play roulette, slots and bingo. It WAS a £25 jackpot machine but you could in effect get £500 if you played 20 seperate reels, each reel was 20p ago. It looked an eye saw and the coin mech was crap. it was put in an Irish bar for 4 weeks on test around here then removed and now the pub has 3 Deal or No Deal machines, 2 of them being identical lol.

EDIT - it was a 2 part LCD in a horizon cabinet (YUCKY)