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[markdennis]

Vivid Jekyll And Hyde

[ploggy]

Banging Away. Rather apt name for a machine because that is all you'll be doing.

[M1Adness]

The Jackpot Is Not Enough.

Playing it is enough to be honest. Had the most insane suck periods I have ever seen, and you could easily put in £50 + without a SINGLE win, and that was on a £15 JP. Yes, yes, yes, a nice guy called Spa will tell you how good this is on the streak, but unless you go floated with £200 in notes/coins it is likely you will never see a streak.

Absolutely the worst machine I have ever had the misfortune to play, either real or emulated.

[stevedude2]

IIRC it was a Dave Ellis creation (DJE), badged as an Empire machine.

There was another game as well, possibly called Against All Odds, with mixed bars and sevens on it which was equally as bad. When it paid out you certainly knew about it, but catch one at the wrong time, like nearly all of the time, and you could experience utterly dire gameplay and value for money, the likes of which I've never seen since, even on £25 stuff.

Then there was Some Like It Hot, which was even harsher still. Happily it failed test in my local, and I think another in the next town got put through with a bin by an unhappy customer. I never saw any more thank f***.

Incidentally TJINE had a bug in it on the first software version - if you played it in autoplay it returned a much higher percentage than when playing normally.

[81holmes81]

Gotta be JPM's Vindaloot in my book. Had this in our local for a while, and the gameplay was absolute bollocks.

I love Vindaloot. Am I the only one? Mind you, with bonus features such as "turban cash" im suprised one of the tabloid papers havent done a mock up of Jade Goody playing it. Such a racist bandit!

And the jackpot is not enough, good call on that one! Utter Crap!

[todd1970]

Any S16 machine Im hoping that in 5-10 years time all that will be in amusment arcades and pubs will be S16's..cos it will deffo stop me playing machines for good

[CrAzYbAr]

More dreadful machines, Bar-X for bad gameplay, devilishly simple and at £5 5p play looks nice but £3 without a win makes it look like doing the dishes, its so much of a chore...
Dambusters etc are quite nice on £5 jackpot, however, Grand Blaster Cash etc is not. ALL the shots have been degraded, so its like 30p here, wow a 40p repeater etc, and you cant get anywhere really. It's best on the 2p/6p/10p stake staying on 2p and catching numbers.
And Empires Fat Cat, the £2 to £5 jump on the cash ladder is enough already!

[mocochoco]

The machine i really began to despise was extremes jackpot and the beanstreak, this machine was basically the one that stopped me playing fruities as i did. Had it in my local about a year and a half ago and the amount of mony i lost in it over the time it was there was beyond a joke. Guess it did its job though because no matter how much i lost it just kept sucking me back in.

What a bitch of a fruity that is :/