Fruit Machine Chat

An offering on a Games Media quizzer, incidentally the same one as in the Barley Mow before! This time it was fixed, so had a game.

It uses the newer 12 question structure as opposed to the 15, and you get(well I got) the 3 main lifelines from the start. Whether or not this is altered depending on mood I don't know, as I only had one game.

It's the standard get the questions right and advance up the ladder, however when you hit the cash you can choose QUESTION or MINIGAME along with collect. Minigame shows you an assortment of ticks and crosses, then hides and shuffles them about, and you have to pick a tick to stay in the game, or a cross to end up with zilch.

Cash amounts started at 25p quite high up but I think it went 25p, 50p, £1, £2, £10 or something like that.

I got up to the 25p and chose minigame, but flunked it and lost. Still, relatively entertaining.

Give it a few more goes and you'll realise how bad this game is - it's hard to imagine a more grotesque parody of a classic game than this one. Once you get to the first prize level (usually a massive 25p or 50p), the questions turn as hard as anything I have ever seen in all my years of playing - utterly ridiculous stuff that is no more fair than if I said "I am thinking of a number between 1 and 4, which one is it?". The top prize is £5, but you'll only get there by 3 or 4 random guesses in a row. There are lots of games out there that demonstrate the utter desperation of an industry dying on its arse without a clue how to arrest the decline, and this one is right up there with the best/worst.

Apart from this, I quite like it... ;-)

Ah, damn! I KNEW I hadn't got my helping of hate for this machine yet! :P

I'll probably be back in the pub in a couple of weeks so I'll see what it can do. Was kind of tempted to try the spoiler questions but never did.

For anyone who ever played the original Millionaire, which was a truly revolutionary product and saved plenty of our necks, this is an example of anti Millionaire. Truly one of the most remarkably bad re-invented games I have ever seen.

QuizMaster wrote:For anyone who ever played the original Millionaire, which was a truly revolutionary product and saved plenty of our necks, this is an example of anti Millionaire. Truly one of the most remarkably bad re-invented games I have ever seen.

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