games warehouse to open conversion

[cool]

saw my first one today converted to an OPEN game menu9.
Unfortunately we know seem to have to problems for the price of one.

I have informed Fat Spanner about various gliches on their Open terminals
but although the guys there know , even if they have developed corrective software it is up to the various local machine companies to adopt it and with past experience I wouldnt hold my breath.

I collected my winnings and attempted to put some of it back only to find my coins rejected (common fault of menu 9's)
I then attempted to reboot the machine and the Games Warehouse logo came up?! and then I got the NO NETWORK message floating around the screen.

anyone else had this joyous experience?

[Nil Satis]

I haven't, but then there is so little on those Hotwires worth playing - it's not even the full Open menu and that's bad enough - that I have added them to my list of machines to ignore (unless I'm stuck waiting somewhere and there really is no other option).

[BigEd]

saw my first one today converted to an OPEN game menu9.
Unfortunately we know seem to have to problems for the price of one.

I have informed Fat Spanner about various gliches on their Open terminals
....

Judging by your numerous posts about 'calls' to various people/establishments pointing out how they were failing to do their job; I bet they were sooooooooooooooo happy to be informed of their shortcomings.

Oh, and to be a pedant like yourself, that is “now” and “two”. Get a grip man, your letting the side down.

[steveseagull]

Oh, and to be a pedant like yourself, that is “now” and “two”. Get a grip man, your letting the side down.
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You're?

[BigEd]

Oh, and to be a pedant like yourself, that is “now” and “two”. Get a grip man, your letting the side down.

You're? [/quote]

like "you are"

or..

like yourself

"used to give special attention to the subject of the sentence"

I now wished that I listened to my English teacher at school, rather than stare at her titties ops:

[cool]

I apologise most profusely for my literary shortcomings ops:

[BigEd]

I apologise most profusely for my literary shortcomings ops:

so do I

[steveseagull]

And me.
Emma Thompson is throwing up in a bucket as i speek. lol

[cool]

on one screen GAME MENU 1

Bakers dozen
Balls of steel
Battle of britain 2
Box clever
Golden boot 2
Great pretender
Gridrunner
Hex mex
Jimmy white quiz
More pub quiz
Open the box
Pharoahs treasure
Pirate ship 2
Pop the question
Road to victory
Star Lines
Take your pick
Whats in your box
World Masters

[QuizMaster]

Looks like some sort of Guinness attempt to get the 20 shittiest games ever made onto one menu.

[Nil Satis]

Indeed. At a pinch you might say two of the games are half-playable, which means a grand total of 1 game out of 20 that isn't rubbish. A really tricky achievement, in the same way that it is sometimes said of strikers who miss the goal from 6 yards that it would have been easier to score - to deliberately select that much dross really takes some doing.

[Istenem]

i was in one of my locals where they have an open machine yesterday, waiting for friends. i had a fiver on me which i put through the note slot. well that was the last i saw of that.

i'm on good terms with the publican so help for heroes will be getting that when the engineer next shows.

anyway, enough about my wretchedness at having a small note swallowed. i put a fifty-pee in (which was accepted and registered credit) and i stared blankly at Cool's screen in bamboozlement. there was nothing i wanted to play. not a single game roused anything but apathy.

eventually i went for russell grant's game with low expectations and that was about right. it is probably just as well my note got stolen; otherwise i'd have had to play three more shite games.

[cool]

russell grant's game's a right bummer

[messiah]

Indeed. At a pinch you might say two of the games are half-playable, which means a grand total of 1 game out of 20 that isn't rubbish. A really tricky achievement, in the same way that it is sometimes said of strikers who miss the goal from 6 yards that it would have been easier to score - to deliberately select that much dross really takes some doing.

I'll say that one of those hlaf playable must be More 4 quiz (Pub quiz)

It seemed to have a bit more thought go into the questions e.g. "Which race course was the first to introduce Photo Finish cameras." which while was a stab in the dark for me, I do accept that for some people this would be worthwhile knowledge rather than the old "Which issue of the Times was it on 13th February 1927" with answers differing by 1 style spoiler.

I wouldn't play it in preference to Pub quiz though.

[Nil Satis]

More 4 was indeed one half and I would with no enthusiasm whatsoever propose the Jimmy White game as the other, although thinking about it a little more I would have to remove some marks from that one for its blatant reliance on prime number factorisation as a way to stop anyone winning a decent prize. Maybe I should have gone for:

More 4 - 1/2 a worthwhile game
Jimmy White - 1/4
Gridrunner (that odd 'unbranded' Blockbuster clone) - 1/4

to make up the 1 full game. The other 17 are however still insufferable rubbish.