Fruit Machine Chat

Six days after the close of the Hex Factor competition, I should point out that I'm yet to receive any form of communications from Tournament Arcade HQ...

This is a bit weird, but I quite like Spot It. Despite never having come close to winning on it.

Ahem. Was very lucky to find a couple of these last Saturday.

Thanks Dave, very interesting. I play four of those games regularly! People are put off Simply Dance by its look, but it's not that bad. Hex Mex, however, is a pitiful game.

MARVELOUSNESS was spelt out for me at the beginning of my game today. Nice.

I joined the 309 club the other day. Annoyingly, can't remember my ten. So let's say it was BANANAQUIT.

The 'categories I wasn't allowed to put in' can be pretty entertaining. Ones that stick in my mind are 'date-rape drugs' and 'they died of AIDS'.

There's also Battleships 2 out on the test Paragons. As far as I can tell, the difference seems to be that if and when you bomb out in the end game, you continue to play a new round.

Just about on topic, I have now twice had an experience whereby I won, and collected, a decent amount of cash on a Hotwire/Open, only to find that every pound coin I tried to put in after that was rejected. The manufacturers couldn't control the hoppers, could they?*

*No

I'm not entirely sure 320 is possible. I thought 309 was the maximum possible?

You could have just taken my word for it Cool! Audacity wasn't in my mind when I didn't finish my drink. Leaving the pub sharpish was.

I was asked/ordered to leave a pub after one game on Thursday. The landlord was behind me so I guess I should have deliberately fudged my play. After a fiver on Word Soup (it was an un-updated Paragon) he gave me my marching orders. "Half a Coke* and you empty my machine!" Venue was the Sa...

There is a Freud Bar in Covent Garden. I would love there to be a sign on the door saying "No id, no entry"

Well, call me easily pleased, but I thought the games were no worse than average. In installation mode at least, they seem fair. I would of course like to see a top prize (not jackpot, never jackpot) of more than £4, but as Istenem says in another post, if that's how SWPs can get on with HMRC breath...

ItBox got rid of Word Soup, and look what happened to that. Just saying.