moneymad martian

Bell-fruits are difficult to force since the advent of S5 - S4 machines were far easier. However, if the machine is below percentage, and trust me there are signs to see a below percentage S5, the brute force method can work, if you know what to look for. But must agree with other posters, in this instance either the machine was raped, or the player was recycling too much for any sort of force to work. The old "I'll put 25% more than the JP in without taking anything, to be guaranteed a JP" are long long long gone.

Nails and guitar have it spot on....if you don't know how to play these, don't play. The anti-force programming in these things these days is simply ferocious. Play casually and recycle. Unless I see the signs, I take a £3 plus guaranteed repeat every time, because you never know when a random IM could be thrown in....

Money Mad Martians - set on £25/30p - probably the best AWP ever released in my opinion. Was such a departure for me aswell having never really liked turbo gamble machines, but this one hooked me. Fantastic sound package helped also. Still play JAFC's classic to death since getting rid of the one I had due to failure.

Cloud 9/Blue Moon - set on £4.80/20p - probably the only lo-tech machine I would still play repeatedly released by Barcrest. Do like Empire's Clockwork Oranges however, running on Barcrest MPU5 tech.

High Rise (circa 1992) - set on £4.80/20p - a brilliant "mid-tech" machine with quite a few good innovations for the day

Star Wars - A New Hope - set to £35/30p/50p - great innovation, shame the advent of the £70JP totally ruined the gameplay for this one (as it did for many).

Bully For You - set to £25/30p - the last machine released in the New Genesis cab, few nice little cheats and touches in this machine.

Could be good news in a way. In the end, Barcrest started copying the DonD brand on pretty much every AWP they released. If has been said before, manufacturers like JPM and Electrocoin make some sort of comeback, we may get fresh ideas. Either way, server based games are not my cup of tea and means my hard earned will stay in my pocket.

Smacks of greed however, that manufacturers got greedy and are now having to adapt to declining pub visits, declining arcade visits and yet still they want to increase the stakes and jackpots for AWP's? Will they ever learn?

Sad to see the end of Barcrest as we know them, also sad that many hard working people have lost their jobs. But server based games will only alienate the casual player in reality. One pub I frequent has a traditional AWP and a server based machine, and only one takes any money.

Break the Bank - was the only readable one among that list. Played an Electrocoin clone of The Perfect Game the other day, Take it ot Leave it. Absolute total w**k. The tell of red boxes just was a total dud on this.

I managed over £300 from a clockwork orange set at 50p play and £35 jackpot the proof is in the orange lol
My maths was bad if you add it u p u can see its more than £200 lol

Have played Clockwork Oranges in my local Mecca and on FME on DAD's excellent DX until I'm blue in the face. In the wild have played every version - MPU4 & MPU5, the £70 version, £35 version, £25 version and £5 version. Have had a £60 run on a 10p/£5 and it was so different in gameplay to your video - mind you that video was the MPU4 single player version, and the Mecca I play at regularly only has MPU5 multi player versions. Best one in monetary terms though was a £70 MPU4 version in Leeds train station arcade (sadly now closed) - that went for £350 for around £100 stake. Strangely the note acceptor light remained on - must have had one huge fooking hopper that one...

A tip - regardless of which Barcrest chip, it will never give three oranges for the super feature if a win has been awarded on the current credit. There must have been no win on the current credit for that to happen. Thats why, if you have two oranges, two melons and two cherries, there is a block for it to not give the third orange due to the sequencing of the hands (on two or three hands you are guaranteed to get a cherry or a melon if the other hand is on the orange). It can however award a win (or wins), take a further credit and then award the super feature. Incredibly easy to spot when the machine is on a streak aswell - especially useful in a bingo hall....

Empires very best machine in my opinion. Nice video.