All the fun of the fair
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:57 pm
As I'm interested in AWPs, I also like the odd fairground for a ride and punt. My local one is in town at the moment. Although I spunked £12 over all, it was across 9 machines and it was good to see the £25 jackpot era again. This is why I've posted under good experiences.
Doctors & Nurses £25 - This is the first time I've seen it as a cat C as it's normally £5 jp. The £5 version is bad enough so I didn't want to get too involved here. Once it finally got boarding, it threw in an early superboard with 7 rolls on the 1-6 die. The cash meter reached £5.20, then the 7th roll on the 1-6 die sent me outwards by 1 layer onto a redundant icon, so I just collected the meter.
Next up, I saw 3 of the darts clones side-by-side, all £25 - Two of them featured a normal dart board while the third one was called Lucky Strike with a mining theme, but is essentially the same as darts. I got somewhat stung by Yabba Dabba then clawed some of it back from Lucky Strike. The shuffle button was broken on this so I imagine it has shafted a few people already.
King Ker Ching £25 - I liked Gimme Gimme Gimme, but Barcrest overdid these in my opinion, and the Maygay versions (like this one) tended to play particularly bad. I normally punt a couple of quid to test the waters otherwise I then I stand well clear. This time round, £2 in, it gave me an early £4 shot so I chickened out with that.
Next was the Vampire version of Bellfruit Monopoly, £5 - This is by Mazooma though, but the same in every respect. Can't remember what it was called though. Get tic-tac-toe in view to start boarding and tic-tac-toe on the winline to enter the upper Monopoly board. Collect 4 phases of the moon to double the value of the properties, and get 3 like-coloured properties for a barcode feature. This particular machine had the volume turned up so high that the speakers were distorting and sounded like they were on their way out. I got a few boards out of this, didn't play particularly well though. The best I got was a £2.70 cash meter while playing the Monopoly board.
LOTR £25 - This is part 2 I think, one of the diamond-shaped grid games like Alien. This was turned off though.
Big Brother £15 - This played pretty decent, recycled a few £4 boards just for fun. I always got on with BB but I never got on with PCB or Frenzy for some bizarre reason. Perhaps PCB/Frenzy are getting 'done' where BB isn't? Or maybe it's down to how many times the 3 machines got chipped.
Finally, King Kebab on £25 - I know this better as Austin Powers. Didn't do brilliantly on this. One board gave me 3 feature offers but no supers or megas. I collected a feature where it span the middle reel really fast and you press start to stop it. Of course I wound up with a cherry lol.
After these 9 machines, I went on a couple of rides, then chanced Doctors & Nurses again where it promptly ate all of my spare change :-P
Doctors & Nurses £25 - This is the first time I've seen it as a cat C as it's normally £5 jp. The £5 version is bad enough so I didn't want to get too involved here. Once it finally got boarding, it threw in an early superboard with 7 rolls on the 1-6 die. The cash meter reached £5.20, then the 7th roll on the 1-6 die sent me outwards by 1 layer onto a redundant icon, so I just collected the meter.
Next up, I saw 3 of the darts clones side-by-side, all £25 - Two of them featured a normal dart board while the third one was called Lucky Strike with a mining theme, but is essentially the same as darts. I got somewhat stung by Yabba Dabba then clawed some of it back from Lucky Strike. The shuffle button was broken on this so I imagine it has shafted a few people already.
King Ker Ching £25 - I liked Gimme Gimme Gimme, but Barcrest overdid these in my opinion, and the Maygay versions (like this one) tended to play particularly bad. I normally punt a couple of quid to test the waters otherwise I then I stand well clear. This time round, £2 in, it gave me an early £4 shot so I chickened out with that.
Next was the Vampire version of Bellfruit Monopoly, £5 - This is by Mazooma though, but the same in every respect. Can't remember what it was called though. Get tic-tac-toe in view to start boarding and tic-tac-toe on the winline to enter the upper Monopoly board. Collect 4 phases of the moon to double the value of the properties, and get 3 like-coloured properties for a barcode feature. This particular machine had the volume turned up so high that the speakers were distorting and sounded like they were on their way out. I got a few boards out of this, didn't play particularly well though. The best I got was a £2.70 cash meter while playing the Monopoly board.
LOTR £25 - This is part 2 I think, one of the diamond-shaped grid games like Alien. This was turned off though.
Big Brother £15 - This played pretty decent, recycled a few £4 boards just for fun. I always got on with BB but I never got on with PCB or Frenzy for some bizarre reason. Perhaps PCB/Frenzy are getting 'done' where BB isn't? Or maybe it's down to how many times the 3 machines got chipped.
Finally, King Kebab on £25 - I know this better as Austin Powers. Didn't do brilliantly on this. One board gave me 3 feature offers but no supers or megas. I collected a feature where it span the middle reel really fast and you press start to stop it. Of course I wound up with a cherry lol.
After these 9 machines, I went on a couple of rides, then chanced Doctors & Nurses again where it promptly ate all of my spare change :-P