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[Cuey]

Is there anything worth knowing about "Hyper Viper" and "High Flyer".

Any tricks, features worth taking, *ahem* Emptiers?

Also what does everyone else think of these machines? I recently had the pleasure of playing them, and apart from being £25jps they were actually pretty good. Got on the feature more than expected.

[Bencrest]

Hyper Viper - never played. In a local chain pub [Hungry Horse (Greene King)], seems very popular but haven't played meself. Quite liked Vamp It Up, which was their newest machine prior to Hyper Viper, so might be ok :)

Hi Flyer - ARE YOU MAD?! lol, I haven't played a worst Barcrest machine in years, except for its clones, which are equally awful. Boards tend to be blocked at about £1.60 most of the time, often giving 12 nudges = £1.60. VERY flat profile, then starts putting on top board, which is blocked at about £4, and then finally gives the JP, from say 1 NORMAL shot in my experience :)

I'll play Hyper Viper when I find one on £5 - AND BEFORE ANYONE TELLS ME THEY PLAY CRAP ON £5 its worth realising you can work out what the features do, and it costs a damn deal less to do so!!

BarcrestBenito

[Cuey]

I thought it was fairly generous when i played it. But now that you mention it, watching a friend play it didn't seem to want to give any more than a fiver.

Must have caught it on a particularly good day.

Vamp it up does seem quite popular, i've only seen one near me but it's always in heavy use.

[buzzin_nutta]

Ill back up BB's statement on HiFlyer.... had one in my last pub. They are shite. Best way to play Hi Flyer - Get jackpot from Golden Hold (2 steps each way) then will often flash next feature entry for invincible. Sometimes this flash repeats, giving you a total of £75... but normal £50 is your best win! The machine is crap though...

[impact]

very nice machine play it all day long i will try and have a look for any type of good or top features in which r easy and pay well as i have four to run up tomorrow on d-reg

[Bencrest]

IMHO it doesn't offer enough features of value on boards for that to be much use..... Seems to be a definate block at £2 on general boards, and when it does give a high feature i.e Tutti Frutti, it'll normally fob you off with £2.

Took the Win Series once... top feature - (or is it 1 below?) - went for £7.

I suppose it can be a nice machine, but I would say that unless you've seen someone else walk away from it having lost a lost and refused all wins when on the Superboard I would'nt bother. Far too much effort to make it happy!

BarcrestBenito

[LiamsLocks]

Think our pub had a clone of it - Top Dog, or something (?) and well i pumped at least 30 quid in it, kept getting onto the board but the £1.60 wins were all that was coming, and i wasn't taking them. In the end i started to just take £1.60 whenever i could, was taking out about £4 per 2 quid i put in, eventually walked off about even - didn't have that much fun playing it though.

[Bencrest]

Clones are Top Dog / Big Cheese / Super Star. All are equally bad :)

I love the way that they offer £2 repeat maximum from Cash shots, a crap feature [worth £2]..and then proceed to fill nudges up to 16 nudges.........= £1.60!

I think the thread title mentioned Hyper Viper - put £2 in last night, took £4 from the board - can't complain, paid for the beer! I have to confess I quite like the current Barcrests - much more than the previous crap [Hi Flyer clones]

BarcrestBenito.

[impact]

hyper viper is a new game it has no family tree ie topdog , super stars ,hot rocks,high flyer has a family tree like also nitro,quake,after shock ,red x ,invaders

[Bencrest]

Yarr, I know :)

I didn't make it clear, only wanted to say that Top Dog has loads of equally nasty clones!

Hyper Viper hasn't been cloned - seems to be on a similar setup though to Vamp It Up [a clone of Hot Stuff!]...I'm sure they will clone Hyper before long - but IMHO that wouldn't be a bad thing, seems like a nice enough bandit!

[emptied Spikers shrapnel cashbox, total = £67.15 [lord knows where the 15p came from!]....played Hyper Viper, New Cops N Robbers, Original Lord of the Rings [which I won't be doing again!!], and Doctor Dosh. Overall I came back with £91...and improvement I guess :)

BarcrestBenito

[impact]

sorry barcrest benito

[Bencrest]

No problem Impact, I don't normally make my posts clear, I just keep typing :) [y'know, when your fingers go faster than your brain?!]

BarcrestBenito