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[Matty.N]

1st of all its not that star wars related

Soooo as some of you know i was on holiday for a week last week & what i endured in this arcade was not good

the 1st night (a saturday night) i came in at about half 10 (after loosing all my money to evil party time with mr bizzle & crazy bar) found a pound in my pocket & stuck it in a star wars machine, it was backing so i carried on & managed to get £3 cashpot as it was safe, stuck a pound in Bullseye got on board 1st shot on cash gave me £5

eventually went around the arcade & came out about £15 up (not bad in 10 mins)

next night i went back & again all the machines were still backing and none of them would pay out, it was backing all the £1s & 10ps (pays out exactly no round ups) went in with £10, came out with 0, only machine to pay out was a mazoomas cabin fever that capped at £2 or £2.40 on the shoots)

each night i went back stuck a few quid in and nothing would pay out, yet they were all backing the £1's & 10ps, they were only on 70 or 72% payout but you could tell there was quite a few quid in the bottom

but friday night (the last night) was different, went in with £5 & came out about £30 - £35

DOND Classic streaked me for £17
DOND: WOW gave me a flat £5 ms & then a super start which gave me a £5 to start with spun and it gave me a banker message, said next spin would land me on a mystery so i took the £5, didnt repeat
Monopoly (in an Eclipse cab?) (Lo-tech) gave me a streak for £8.40
and won bits & pieces off other machines
Empires Ant Rap (what a stupid machine) gave me £5 & repeated twice


now the main point

are arcade owners giving us false hope, as you can see above, the only nights i won were the 1st & last

i mean, they could be making the machines back all week just to trick us into thinking there gonna pay, whereas they arent

i think its kind of sad that they're tricking people into playing like that, at least next time i go ill know only to play the 1st & last nights

[voodoomau5]

Where were you playing mate ? cuz afaik there aint a cabin fever in paignton

[Matty.N]

Where were you playing mate ? cuz afaik there aint a cabin fever in paignton

its in the site i was on

hoburne torbay (even though its paignton)

[voodoomau5]

so the walk of wealth, star wars and classic etc. were where you were staying

[LewisM]

72% Thats shocking for on site at a holiday camp. Surely they could be up around 80% just to give a little bit more gameplay for peoples money.
Would probably get a few more punters in if they thought they might win too.

As for backing every day they're probably refilled daily wouldn't take long for someone to whip round with a key and top them up in the morning

[FRUITJUNKIE1971]

I was in Leysdown the other day and saw a set of three Star Wars machines together, two were being played on so I stuck 2 quid in the vacant machine, got on feature board and was doing well, got offered the Death Star feature, (which is at the top of the features list so I'm guessing it was the best regarding payout) ...

...and then I made the mistake of pressing the collect button and won a red £1.60 from the cash stack. I totally missed the fact that there was a separate feature collect button. Doh!

To add insult to injury, the £1.60 did'nt repeat either. Double Doh!

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[Matty.N]

To add insult to injury, the £1.60 did'nt repeat either. Double Doh!

if it had of repeated you wouldnt have gotten another £1.60 anyways

it goes up & down the cash so you could have gotten 40p lol

[CrAzYbAr]

Matty- Backing won't always mean anything, it could be that the owner tops up his machines or hits "Hopper Top Up".....Or it could be jammed hoppers, there are many reasons for backing that might not mean payout is due. Esp on 72%, if you went in with £10 and tried a number of machines, you might not have put enough in them to get them going, board costs can be nasty on many machines, Star Wars, Walk of Wealth etc even if they are backing....I got the run on Pick yer Pesos and some boards were still £3 apart

Fruitjunkie-Death Star is NOT the best feature on the machine dont you worry...It's something like it takes lower cash amounts away on the ladder(due to number on reel I think?) and then offers you one shot above the eliminated amounts.
Best feature is just called Star Wars, next best is Wild Streak when its red;)

[Matty.N]

Matty- Backing won't always mean anything, it could be that the owner tops up his machines or hits "Hopper Top Up".....Or it could be jammed hoppers, there are many reasons for backing that might not mean payout is due. Esp on 72%, if you went in with £10 and tried a number of machines, you might not have put enough in them to get them going, board costs can be nasty on many machines, Star Wars, Walk of Wealth etc even if they are backing....I got the run on Pick yer Pesos and some boards were still £3 apart

i see that aftert that week

why cant we go back to the times when a backer ment it was gonna pay =/

btw the bowling alley by me has had a WOW put in , & the payout has jumped from 70 to 78% ;D

put a £1 go to play DOND went all the way & got £4, me be liking these at 78%

Fruitjunkie-Death Star is NOT the best feature on the machine dont you worry...It's something like it takes lower cash amounts away on the ladder(due to number on reel I think?) and then offers you one shot above the eliminated amounts.
Best feature is just called Star Wars, next best is Wild Streak when its red;)

wild streak was utter bs for me

got £3.40 off a red one & £5 off a red star wars lol

[johnjohn]

Matty- Backing won't always mean anything, it could be that the owner tops up his machines or hits "Hopper Top Up".....Or it could be jammed hoppers, there are many reasons for backing that might not mean payout is due. Esp on 72%, if you went in with £10 and tried a number of machines, you might not have put enough in them to get them going, board costs can be nasty on many machines, Star Wars, Walk of Wealth etc even if they are backing....I got the run on Pick yer Pesos and some boards were still £3 apart

Fruitjunkie-Death Star is NOT the best feature on the machine dont you worry...It's something like it takes lower cash amounts away on the ladder(due to number on reel I think?) and then offers you one shot above the eliminated amounts.
Best feature is just called Star Wars, next best is Wild Streak when its red;)

u can rip nudge blaster too if setup is there

[SUPER7]

I think the reason hoilday camp arcades have there %s so low is because they have no rep to keep up, coz they have not got any comp from any other arcades on site plus people are on hoilday to spend money & there bin & gone in a week. Also i found most of the new machines now days when backing don't mean they are gonna pay out loads, like 2day i put £2 in the classic-Crystal maze £8 token as it was backing & got £24 of tokens out of it so the next person who puts cash in it gonna think it is full as it payed out tokns only!!

[CrAzYbAr]

u can rip nudge blaster too if setup is there

Very difficult on these ones AFAIK, the £35ers have killed on 50p before if the Jackpot is there, with Mazooma variants though it's no problem at all, shame Crest ruined it!