What game is this / where has it gone?

[cool]

the fact that there is a dice roll shouldnt put anybody off. I didnt play the ancient standalone a & l for a long time because of the di roll. I missed out on a lot of money. In fact that is my major weakness as an swp player,I come to the conclusion as to whether a game is good or rubbish far too quickly.

[Nil Satis]

Sadly you can nearly always spot the rubbish ones on your first go these days - e.g. my excitement at seeing a new version of Blockbusters lasted precisely as long as it took to play one whole game!

[blackmogu]

I think I would be far more willing to play fruit machines if there was a truly random mechanism at work, perhaps some sort of wheel which the user can spin and which comes to a natural stop. Instead we get this illusion of randomness - yet it is the machine which both starts and stops the spinning process.

It would be easy to program a truly random dice roll on a quiz game but no one would believe its randomness as it would only be represented as pixels on a screen. Shame, because it would make games like Cluedo and Monopoly more exciting.

QT

It would be even better if the machines by law had to display their set percentage via an external LCD. I saw one machine do this (random spinna, non-random bingo version). Alot of fruits have the wrong % on display via the decal. This would eliminate any false advertising, and confound alot of bent arcade operators.