Fruit Machine Chat

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:18 pm**

Any info on this machine guys? Jus moved into my local!

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:27 pm**

Are the 'Smash Martins' a spin-off from the band 'The Housemartins'?

Birdhouse in your soul 'n' all that...

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:16 pm**

Never played it, but from other fruity sites - the general feeling seemed to be that it was absoltely appauling.....

Kingy.

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:16 pm**

Birdhouse In Your Soul was actually by They Might Be Giants. What a pedantic sod i am. I love the song though...

'Not to put to fine a point on it, say i'm the only bee in your bonnet'. Class!

Matt

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:54 pm**

Mattb wrote:Birdhouse In Your Soul was actually by They Might Be Giants. What a pedantic sod i am. I love the song though...

'Not to put to fine a point on it, say i'm the only bee in your bonnet'. Class!

Matt

You're right y'know ... I just can't get a very slow, acoustic version performed on the Jools Holland show that I'm sure was performed by the housemartins - ohhh why am I so crap with anything involving memory!

What was this thread about again?

Posted: **Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:01 am**

I played Smash Mart'i'ans when it first came out a while back and found it really naff. Certainly not one of Barcrests' best offerings. I hate the way that these style of machines do you in on a 2 or an 11 constantly. Surely the programming could be better and give you a more dodgy number when it doesn't want you to get any further... But I suppose doing that would mean more people collecting smaller wins and thus pushing the 'bigger' wins back?

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:35 am**

Unless someone knows otherwise I thought along with megazone this was one of the worst barcrests ever released. Not worth bothering with.

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:31 am**

If you do decide to force, watch out for the next 2 boards, the 2nd tends to be 1/12's and then when u enter the super board it will go IM. You can normally take a decent feature on the 1st board and it will still do it.

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:34 am**

Yup, I had the 1/12 scenario...

Funny how it goes IM when you open up the SB.

I do think this is bonfire material though. Really not much playability at all...

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:14 pm**

I still think this machine is decent for quick steals, I often throw £5 -£10 in and take out £15 - £20 from the shots and repeats.

Also good for ripping into when someone takes a first JP and walk soon after, cos as said above, the next couple of boards can hold nice surprises.

Fhmassive

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:08 pm**

Bring on November 5th!

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:23 pm**

Palyed this last night, offering £10 repeater after £5 in not backing so decided I would push anyway, took £40 to get IM when entering the super board gave a £35 MS and then went completely dead

Posted: **Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:53 am**

Yeah this machine is jus down from me but judging on the aboves will not play it!

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:33 pm**

Mega Zone is nothing compared to this complete pile of shit (even makes The Wheel of Wealth look good). Found Smash Martians for the first time in a Wetherspoons last night, so I thought I'd try it and stuck a £20 in (after keying it to find it just £4 off), and came away with fuck all. Kept killing first gamble on turbo gambles (even 'slipped' off the £1 on one attempt!) and the number reel always started on 2/5 on the feature, and was being a complete arse with the hi-lo gamble giving me stupid numbers when I did get in. On the last credit, I got some super shots and was offered a Win Streak, and as I was about to take it, the fucking machine turned itself off. Complete and utter kak. Should have on it:

NO PRIZE GREATER THAN ZERO POUNDS AND ZERO PENCE CAN BE WON IN ANY ONE GAME.
THIS MACHINE HAS A PAYOUT OF AT MOST 0%

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