There were (and still are) various tricks that work and ways to empty machines, but for the casual player it all started to go wrong with after the £8 jackpot machines. You just factored into your gameplay that you would lose going higher on a 2 more often than not and made decisions around this. The percentage payouts are based on thousands of spins and they will stick incredibly close to it over the long-term (you can monitor all the stats via the emulator to see this).įor anybody that used to play machines in the wild (I'm talking about back in the old £3/£6 jackpot days) you learned quickly that the hi-lo gambles/skill stops/repeat chances would cheat you (to the point that Barcrest machines used to flash-up 'TRUE SKILL' when it wouldn't cheat - naturally this didn't come up often). The main thing I have learned is I was very very right not to pump any money into these ever, and never will.Īnyway here's a quick video I did for a friend showing him what I'd been up to (Arcade Simulator) thought some of you might get a kick out of it (apologies if embedding doesnt work, I set it to 18+ because of can't make them 'fair', no. Next step is to buy some sort of touchscreen and mini pc to set up with a touch-play front end for MFME. I've got MFME up and running perfectly and even set up 'Arcade Simulator' to have a wander round my own private collection of gamblers. So in the last few days I've joined various emulation forums etc and finally got my head round it. I'm very middle aged now and yet I've successfully manged to avoid ever playing any fruit machines.Īlong with mountains of accumulated gaming stuff over the years I also have an arcade cab and virtual pinball so I thought, you know what would fit in well with those, some sort of fruity, thus began my rabbit hole journey. Apologies if this triggers some peoples habits in advance.

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