Fruit Machine Chat

anyone won anything at all on this piece of shit yet ?

wires74 wrote:anyone won anything at all on this piece of shit yet ?

Remind me which one it is.

just been released on issue 51 itbox

wires74 wrote:just been released on issue 51 itbox

Haven't seen it yet, but London's always slow. Anything else new? Anything else gone, more importantly?

grecian wrote: Haven't seen it yet, but London's always slow. Anything else new? Anything else gone, more importantly?

Haven't played Great Escape but did play a game that involved dragging a piranha around with your finger, eating other fish and avoiding bombs and fishermen's hooks. Fun but not very promising profit-wise. Fat fingers can obstruct one's view of approaching dangers (I assume).

WU is now on the second page, unchanged from the tournament, and Monkey Business remains!

People keep talking to me when I'm quizzing now for some reason, including an old geezer advising me to buy a second home in Portugal and a gang of WU-crazy Sikhs who practically creamed themselves when I cleared a grid.

Damn, I think I may have somehow mentioned WU again in passing there - possibly to congratulate myself.

WU??? What is WU??? Nothing to do with the Wu-Tang Clan I presume?

This WU intrigues me, can anyone tell me some more about it????? What do you have to do, is it a good game to play, can you win on it???????

Is WU talked about a lot on this forum???????

WU?? What is WU?

"Su! That's the call of the Wu
Zu! Gots like come on through"

i assume this is the same great escape i saw at atei. iirc it was pretty generous but you never know at atei how false the settings are.
as for a piranha hmm.

i will have to suspend my boycott at lunchtime.

ugricphile wrote:
i will have to suspend my boycott at lunchtime.

boycott resumed. what a load of dross.

the hungry henry game is quite stylish but gameplay is rubbish. the only good thing is evolving from pondlife.

great escape is soooooo obvious in letting you get one square away then giving only QQQ or caught.

and well done itbox for ruining yet another crossover. pub series cricket is now unplayable. any expansive shot and the timing skews you towards fielders and the wind will take the softest shot safely into the hands of the fielder at cover. bravo.

Played 'The Great Escape' at lunchtime and I'd say wires74 is on the money in describing it as a "piece of sh*t". Frankly it's one of the worst games I've seen for a while. I put three quid in in two separate venues and got nothing. The problem lies in the two very onerous options on the board - the one which puts one of your towers back down to zero, and the one which requires you to answer three (tough) true or false questions to stay in the game. I thought the latter particularly harsh and a step beyond the sorts of harsh features occasionally seen on nowaday's machines - essentially, allowing for some knowledge, if you land on the true or false square your chance of heading out of the game must be about 60-70%. One feature I did note is that it has a pound-play option - are manufacturers starting to bring back the 50p/£1 distinction, I wonder? I didn't play the quid game so am not sure if it's equally harsh. Nothing else new of note - in fact the worrying is two new skill games - the piranha one and that cricket one hitherto seen only on Fatboxes - hopefully not an indicator that ItBox are looking away from knowledge in the future.

Finally, I saw an ELW with a £5 prize at the top level. Anyone had that before? Bit harsh, I though, and needless to say it wasn't paying at all.

Had exactly the same experience with Great Escape this lunchtime. I played 4 games, three of which gave me the True/False square, each time using spoilers. Utter, utter nonsense. Quite liked the piranha game, but only played it once due to finger-knack after a prolonged go.

great escape's oasis ignorance: ..got to be one of the worst innaccuracies ever! Apparently their first album was called 'Oasis'! When you get a cock up like that on your forst game I just lose all confidence in the machine and stop.

Generally the new issue of ITBox is utter shite. Also, is it just me or has DOND suddenly become unwinnable?

your money has less chance of escaping from the machine if playing this than the soldiers from the film of the great escape! the only way to get money out of this is by getting into the spirit of the game and by drilling a tunnel right through the machine taking the coinbox with you.

rogerthymes wrote:great escape's oasis ignorance: ..got to be one of the worst innaccuracies ever! Apparently their first album was called 'Oasis'! When you get a cock up like that on your forst game I just lose all confidence in the machine and stop.

Generally the new issue of ITBox is utter shite. Also, is it just me or has DOND suddenly become unwinnable?

Unfortunately this is not a cock-up, it's just a (deliberately?) misleading question - there was an earlier band called Oasis and their debut album in 1984 was indeed just called 'Oasis' - it's listed on here:

http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Oasis:19270 ... age=albums

However I can certainly endorse the general negative feeling about The Great Escape - it's a 24 carat stinker in the style of Take It or Leave It or Crazy Golf 2. It is also the nearest any game company has got to something I've been anticipating for a while, namely the merging of AWPs and SWPs - that 'Caught' feature is incredibly similar to the '?' square you get on the feature trails on fruit machines, and the effect is pretty much the same as well - three difficult True or False questions are going to kill you around 70% of the time and you can bet your bottom dollar that you will encounter it at least once on every game.

Finally, the new ItBox issue is really no better or worse than the recent ones, all of which have been 90% dross. I'd still say Deal or No Deal was worth playing but when that goes, what the **** will be left of any consequence??

why didn't i listen? why oh why?
played this(against all advice) yesterday and what an insulting game experience.at least some games manage their 'randomness' with a bit of sophistication.
unacceptable unashamed garbage.