Fruit Machine Chat

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?

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).

cool wrote: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.

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?

steveseagull wrote: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:

I apologise most profusely for my literary shortcomings ops:

cool wrote:I apologise most profusely for my literary shortcomings ops:

so do I

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

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

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

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 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.

russell grant's game's a right bummer

Nil Satis wrote: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.

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.