Fruit Machine Chat

anyone else notice how regularly the 250,000 box is swiftly dispatched compared to the original edition or is it just me?

cool wrote:anyone else notice how regularly the 250,000 box is swiftly dispatched compared to the original edition or is it just me?

No, I would definitely agree. Haven't played it much so far, but I'm not sure I've managed to get through to the endgame yet! I hope when I do that the prize will be worth the significantly increased difficulty of getting there.

Have we found out who makes the new one yet? I haven't played it in about two months but I can't recall seeing even a copyright notice on the new one and the last time I looked in the original thread about it, it hadn't been mentioned by anyone.

grecian wrote:

cool wrote:anyone else notice how regularly the 250,000 box is swiftly dispatched compared to the original edition or is it just me?

No, I would definitely agree. Haven't played it much so far, but I'm not sure I've managed to get through to the endgame yet! I hope when I do that the prize will be worth the significantly increased difficulty of getting there.

Glad you said that! I'd been thinking about starting a thread about it but was too embarrassed to admit I'd never made it to the endgame on the new version.
Perhaps even sadder, I prefer the answers in the middle of the screen rather than at the bottom!

I liked the old one much more.
The easy questions really were easy, whilst on the new one the easy questions are easy, but you have to work out the answer, and the other questions are so much harder.

Also it was much nicer to play the old one with the questions in the middle of the screen, rather than three little boxes at the bottom of the screen.

The new version is from revolution games. Endermol have more of a cut in this version so this one is now on and the old one taken off.

This new game is to all intents and purposes the end of one of the best 'franchises' the quiz game companies have ever had. It's hugely more difficult than the previous Q&A versions (ignoring the Big Reds and skill only versions as being unworthy of comment in this setting), completely fixed in terms of when it gives you the 250,000 box and of seemingly no interest whatsoever to punters - I have not seen a single one playing this in the three months or so since it came out.

I would have guessed that it was made by Bell Fruit Games, as they seem to be responsible for all the very worst big name titles - Colour of Money, Rocket Money, Family Guy, John Parrott ... - but assuming the previous poster is right then I suppose we can let them off just this once. I really would like to sit those Bell Fruit guys down and ask them the honest question - "What the **** are you guys thinking of?". Are they actively trying to make the worst games they can or are these really the best they can come up with?

That's a tad harsh on the Bell Fruit guys isn't it? Let's be fair to them, they did make Royle Family and Family Fortunes a few years back. I know because I still have a fantastic kitchen and conservatory from it.

Clearly their games haven't always been awful, and indeed they have made some real classics, but for me it is telling that their official website only lists games that are nearly all 2 or more years old:

http://www.bellfruitgames.co.uk/products/swp.htm

The Colour of Money is such a rotten concept - it was a rotten TV show after all - that they were always up against it trying to make something of that but Family Guy could easily have been improved by having a slightly less than COMPLETELY rigged end game and both Rocket Money and John Parrott actually have promise as basic ideas but are ruined by heavy-handed question setting.