JakeyC

I was playing on Extreme Madness tonight and noticed something odd about the auto nudges.

Whenever I had two 'Madness' symbols in view and got 3 nudges for an obvious fruit win, I'd manually nudge one reel to see if the feature was available. When I saw it wasn't, I just hit auto (being a lazy arse) to get the fruit win. Excpet I didn't get it - it kept nudging the reel I manually nudged despite a win being available and no 3rd Madness symbol in view!!

I thought I'd seen it wrong the first time so did it again when I could and the same thinf happened - nudge a reel manually when there's an obvious win and it ignores the win and goes for the Madness feature despite not being available!

Can anyone confirm/replicate this for me please?

I've just had the best and worst days of my fruitie 'career' in 2 consecutive days! Stop reading now if that's enough news for you, the rest is me getting it off my chest...

I went on a 12 hr spree on Saturday, starting off with a DOND WoW in the pub at lunch. No wins of any significance, broke even after a mega streak. Moved on to bowling/entertainment centre where the bar has another DOND and a Lucky Strike (think that's right name, gold mine theme?). Got the streak after £25 in, but only for £35. Lost most of it again on the DOND.

Moved on to the bingo late afternoon and this is where the wins came! Started on a converted Elvis with a streak for £72 off £5 in. An old chap came up and asked if I'd won anything and I said well yeah, I have. He says he put all his money in there and won nothing. What do you say?! All I could manage was "that's a shame" which with hindsight was probably even less tactful than keeping schtum. But what does he expect? "Oh, sorry, here, have my £70."?

Anyways, next streak comes off Cannonball Run (Empire?) with a £100ish streak off £30. Get a few £25 jackys off £15-20 on other machines and then put a few quid in to a Midas Touch (Empire again?) and get about £20 and leave it in while I take a bingo break (won £15 on last full house)!

Post-bingo I resume playing Midas Touch and after another £20 it streaks like I've never seen a machine streak! I was too shocked to recall all the wins, but needless to say I had over £200 in pound coins in the tray when I came off it.

Ended the night by going to the casino and winning £40 off £20 on roulette, then got a £90 streak on one of the £4000 jackpot slots. Feeling pleased with myself I called it a night and went home at 1am!

Now for the worst day...

Sunday comes and I'm pretty pleased that I have all this cash on me but to be 'sensible' I put £100 in my wallet and leave £200 at home as I know I'd only gamble it if I had it.

Went to local amusements and played £10 through Drac Pack, which I'd normally force at all costs but I was being sensible so I took a £5 and moved on. Started on a £35 Astra Double Decker 25p/50p stake. Got an £11 top reels off £5 on 25p so I thought "ello, worth another few quid". I stuck it on 50p to up the %. Got nothing but a few £1 wins but I carried on. F*ck me was it on the take. Turns out the first feature was the end of some other bastard's streak.

I put the whole £100 in and didn't get up the top again, or any win over £1 for that matter! So I march off to the cash machine in disgust, take out £100 hoping to get a jackpot in the next £20-30. No way. It took the whole £100 and gave nothing but a £9 feature.

I was £200 down in about 30 mins and felt sick. I thought about going back to get the rest of my cash but the though of losing that too made me feel even sicker so I just left it and decided that today would be the worst day of my fruitie career. Never again! EMUs and 2p/£3 play from now on...

Hi all -

I've lurked around these forums previously but not had cause to post anything until now. I hope someone can help. I need help in identifying (and hopefully finding) a machine that I loved when I first started playing as a teen in the mid 90s.

It's a little tricky as I have no idea who made it and can't remember what it was called, so I'll do my best to describe it!

The general theme was ghosts/haunted house, and it had artwork including a kind of graveyard where the nudges lit up on tombstones and a haunted house above the reels where the paytable was. It was set to 2p play, £3 jackpot + repeater but could have been different elsewhere.

You could only get nudges by getting three inset ghost symbols on the winline, when a 'random' number of nudges would be awarded: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 99 I think. Lining up a new ghost symbol during the nudges would add more.

Symbols were cherries (which you NEVER got!), 1x, 2x and 3x bars then blue 7s and red jackpot 7s. Each win had an equivalent feature that you could exchange to. I don't remember if you could gamble wins or not.

The feature for the double bars (40p) was a skill stop on the pay table, where the first column was the slowest, the second was faster and the third was fastest. The most you could get off this feature was the 3 blue 7s for £1 repeater.

I think the jingle that played when it was time to collect has been used on other machines since.

I remember getting the £3 to repeat a further 4 times, giving me £15 on one occasion. That was pretty amazing when you're 13 and playing 2p a time!! I have lots of other good memories of this machine, from back when my £3.50 Sunday paper round money would last all morning! Now it's not even 2 spins on Rainbow Riches :-(

If anyone else can remember it or thinks they may know what it was called or who made it, I'd love to hear from you. Cheers.