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This machine speaks for itself. To be honest, I didn't think the roms for this machine would ever show up, but thanks to money monster2 at www.fruitemu.co.uk they have.
As this is one of the first machines I ever asked for in FME (the other being the sister machine Top the Lot, which appears ever rarer!), when the roms turned up I just had to make a layout for it. So here it is, Top Take, largely from memory.
The machine itself is Barcrest MPU4 fare circa 1986. It is 10p play and has a £1.50 all cash Jackpot. That in itself is probably enough to put off many of the members of FME from playing it. However this is not one of the most requested older machines for no good reason. The £1.50 JP has an insane repeater which could, on a good day, give 10+ repeats. In the days of £3 token JP's, this machine could literally give you a £16.50+ all cash JP. Now obviously this happens more rarely, but it is not uncommon to at least get two or three repeats from this feature, which puts it in the realms of a 10p play £6 JP machine, except with much better gameplay!
There are no graphics available for this machine unfortunately, so until that stage we have to be content with a classic layout. It's been a while since I did a classic layout, and in this case I have selected the old style classic for this release. I feel that graphical heroics on a classic are best reserved for later more complex machines, and this style more fits the era the machine is from. Thanks to some pulling together between members it does at least have mostly accurate reel symbols, albeit without the 24 stop overlap that the original enjoyed. That would have to wait for a DX. The classic has also been created from memory, so if you think there are any errors please let me know at www.fruitemu.co.uk. Note the blue tinge to the background is my Windows colour scheme and may be different on your machine.
In my own personal opinion Top the Lot is the better machine, but this is certainly up there with it and well worthy of adding to any historical FME collection. If you liked Smash and Grab or Tuppenny Cracker, you will certainly like this .
Additional thanks for this layout go to money monster2 for supplying the roms, TTX for dumping them, and Quattrohead for some excellent reel scans. Thanks also to the playtesters Quattrohead and Pete_W.
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