Advice to Nil Satis: print out the file below, return to the offending machine and stick on with permanent glue:
QT
Dream/Nightmare SWP lineups
I agree. Quids for Grids is good for a few games. You can also press your way through the slack time between questions which is always a boon for impatient fidgeters like me. Pot the Lot is worth playing precisely once. It seems to swing from extreme easiness on the rare payday to extreme difficulty on all other days, there is no middle road.
Advice to Nil Satis: print out the file below, return to the offending machine and stick on with permanent glue:
QT
Advice to Nil Satis: print out the file below, return to the offending machine and stick on with permanent glue:
QT
Thanks. I may keep that with me for other venues but to be honest that place is, simply by being a Walkabout, somewhere I'd avoid unless it had a decent machine, so I can't see myself being back there any time soon. The Walkabouts all used to have the classic Gamesnets a couple of years back so I would go into them but only under sufferance in the evenings (when I had more time to play) - the one on Shaftesbury Avenue in particular is just unbearable on busy nights.
NS is right to identify that particular line-up as the gashest line-up ever on a multi-play machine. A Paragon boasting that is the *only* time I'll walk out of a pub with a vacant machine. Don't stop visiting it though, as in time it'll change. The Finchley Road Walkabout recently changed to the more standard, and better, Paragon line-up with Trivia for Dummies etc. So keep checking every now and then, I guess is the answer.
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Very amused by this as I was scanning through and missed the start of the post and just saw the list of games and thought fuck me that sounds like just like the Temple Walkabout. No need for an out of order sign though as it invariably is. They have had the same unit in there for years- you can tell by the three claw like scratches next to the coin slot.Nil Satis wrote:Call off the hounds - the search is over! The nightmare SWP line-up actually exists on a single machine - step forward, the Paragon Pro in the Temple Walkabout in London. I popped in there last night for the first time in ages to be confronted with ALL of Games Warehouse's worst offerings on the same machine:
- Give Us A Clue (the Hangman clone with the horrible 'medieval' graphics)
- Spend It Like Beckham
- Treasure Island
- Quids for Grids
- Pot the Lot
- Snakes and Ladders *Gold* (has the name of a game ever been less suitable?)
- three dodgy card games
and no second screen of different games! Can there have ever been a worst set of games in one place?
Every game was impossible to win more than £1 on (of course) although I did see something bizarre - Quids for Grids offered £10 as a bonus prize just for completing one of the words on the grid but I lost it on the following question (with no Try Agains left):
"Which of these Second Division Water Polo teams did not lose a home game in the 2000 season?"
I think that sums the whole thing up!
Anyway my desk is less then 200 yds from that machine and I had been in Thursday lunchtime so must just have missed you
I stopped going in there after they took the old, and better, version (i.e. with Scrabble) offgrecian wrote:NS is right to identify that particular line-up as the gashest line-up ever on a multi-play machine. A Paragon boasting that is the *only* time I'll walk out of a pub with a vacant machine. Don't stop visiting it though, as in time it'll change. The Finchley Road Walkabout recently changed to the more standard, and better, Paragon line-up with Trivia for Dummies etc. So keep checking every now and then, I guess is the answer.
