AtrocityExhibition wrote:
If anyone's interested enough to try the stuff that Cavey's talking about for real, there are loads of emulated fruit machines that have rips, emptiers, traps, free wins, and exploits in them - and with it being emulation they all work exactly as they did out in the wild.
Some of them really are quite eye-watering.
Like Cavey, I got fucking DESTROYED by AWPs back in the day (early 1990s was my worst phase), having no idea whatsoever just how amazingly bent they were. It was only really after the fruit machine emulation scene took off and brought lots of players together that the worms escaped from the can and people like me and Cavey well and truly got our eyes opened.
Cavey decided to just walk away and never play the fucking things again, I decided to get my hands dirty and get a piece of the pie for myself
Indeed mate, indeed.
Personally speaking, a (big) part of me says more power to your elbow, avenging yours - and mine - previous losses by playing these machines at their own game. It really must be quite a thrill knowing that you're going to cake these fucking things every time, walking away with hundreds of pounds of free money. It was ever thus the fruit machine addicts' fantasy, myself included.
However, in my own case, I just instinctively knew that if I didn't walk away from the fuckers I would lose everything - stuff far more important than money. Even if I knew I was on to a winner (I mean, I knew I could likely always grab a few bits of info from yourself were I to ask, old pals that we are
), I still couldn't do it.
You'll recall our old argument about 10 years ago now (groan), where I claimed the death of the compensated AWP at the height of their heyday, and that these would be replaced by random machines with features etc. just like their AWP counterparts? Well, although it hasn't
quite transpired the way I foresaw - but it's certainly not far off. The odd BFM DOND aside, the pub fruit machine *is* very much a dying breed, and even where they are present, they sit unplayed for hours - all a very far cry from 10 years ago. By the same token, actual, physical random machines like Rainbow Riches et al lurk in every service station and bookies (and I'm sure would be in every pub as well, were this to be allowed - surely the next move?) More importantly, these random machines are massively widespread in a virtual sense, on people's laptops, phones and TVs. And many of these 'machines' - especially the more recent ones like 'The Last Nine' that you wrote about recently *do* have features aplenty, including bona fide skill-based ones. So much, then, for the "impossible" random hi-tech, just as I always said.
It really comes to something when Barcrest - the biggest player in UK fruit machines for at least the last 30 years - don't even manufacture predetermined, compensated type fruit machines *at all* now - or indeed any physical reels based machine; they are ALL random and most are wholly virtual.
Good fecking riddance as far as I'm concerned; I for one will not lament the death of the UK AWP for one millisecond.