My online slots videos (plus UK AWPs)

[TheAddict]

Shitburst, like Gonzo, and probably bonanza too, may as well just write "trust me bro" on their game information page.
Disgusting!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I see the phrase "few hundred thousand spins" and I think back to the Starburst challenge... never did see that full screen in the end?

I checked on this last night, I did 310,000 spins and it didn't top 340x.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

So it seems you can teach an old dog new tricks!

Here I get my head around what is considered to be one of the trickier (if not the trickiest!) true skill features ever created for a UK compensated fruit machine. (I had some very good tuition from a chap over at Desert Island Fruits, I wouldn't have worked this out myself in a million years.)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Neither online slots or fruit machine emulation, but my other big recreational love is videogames, and I have a massive soft spot for retrogaming.

Here I cover the Taito arcade classic 'Chase HQ', which, if I do say so myself - (and I do) - I'm quite good at.

Played here using the MAME emulator, with controls courtesy of a wireless XBox 360 controller (still the best controller ever made).

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Rewinding back to April 2021 for this video, when I decided to give Evolution's Crazy Time Live Spinny Wheel Extravaganza game a go, and almost immediately managed the standard issue Degsy spawn. Anyone would think it had been made by BTG....

 

[ChopleyIOM]

The follow-on video I made for Crazy Time, looking at how betting strategies can affect RTP (choosing the highest RTP segments isn't the no-brainer it might sound like), and how the Pachinko bonus round in particular can be 'engineered' to be low or high paying.

For some reason this video did well on the old channel, getting many thousands of views, I'm still not sure why.

 

[mack341]

The follow-on video I made for Crazy Time, looking at how betting strategies can affect RTP (choosing the highest RTP segments isn't the no-brainer it might sound like), and how the Pachinko bonus round in particular can be 'engineered' to be low or high paying.

For some reason this video did well on the old channel, getting many thousands of views, I'm still not sure why.

Probably because there is a cult/loyal following for these games, with their extremely entertaining hosts.

Whenever Ladbrokes give me a gameshow bonus with a 1x turnover, I blow it all in one go to save what's left of my sanity

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Probably because there is a cult/loyal following for these games, with their extremely entertaining hosts.

Whenever Ladbrokes give me a gameshow bonus with a 1x turnover, I blow it all in one go to save what's left of my sanity

If you watch these games for any amount of time (you can log in and watch the game in real money mode without placing any bets, I sometimes have one of them running off to the side whilst I'm playing a videogame), what you realise is they're incredibly low volatility and flat in the main, even what we'd consider 'medium pays' in slots terms are rare, and high pays are very rare.

If you want a load of playtime for not much money, they're not really a bad option in fairness, but unless you're betting big and hit something fairly unusual, you won't be making much in the way of cash outs

The 640x I hit on my video was a seriously, seriously spawny hit!

 

[dunover]

The follow-on video I made for Crazy Time, looking at how betting strategies can affect RTP (choosing the highest RTP segments isn't the no-brainer it might sound like), and how the Pachinko bonus round in particular can be 'engineered' to be low or high paying.

For some reason this video did well on the old channel, getting many thousands of views, I'm still not sure why.

There is no strategy on random 96-98% games. At best you can mitigate the variance.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

There is no strategy on random 96-98% games. At best you can mitigate the variance.

A strategy doesn't necessarily have to mean 'guaranteed to be winning' (which it's clearly impossible to do when every bet available on Crazy Time returns less than 100%). A player could have a strategy to 'maximise playtime at the expense of everything else', at which point simply placing 10p bets on the '1' segment would be a good strategy

With that strategy you could never win more than 50x, (the maximum multiplier that can be applied to any segment in the wheel), but it'd still be a splendid strategy for epic playtime.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

The +EV strategy for bonanza is to get Dazzas log in details.

That’s the clue.

 

[jasonuk]

If you watch these games for any amount of time (you can log in and watch the game in real money mode without placing any bets, I sometimes have one of them running off to the side whilst I'm playing a videogame), what you realise is they're incredibly low volatility and flat in the main, even what we'd consider 'medium pays' in slots terms are rare, and high pays are very rare.

It's curious to see how this has played out in the couple of years since the video was originally published. With people so obsessed by ultra-high variance slots, live casino providers seem to be pushing the "potential" (man, I hate that word now) angle to the limit... games that talk about mammoth pays that clearly are incapable of doing so in any reasonable timeframe.

For example, Playtech's offering of Jumanji The Bonus Level Live - they do a similar divide and conquer to Crazy Time's Cash Hunt, which splits players into 8 to 40 pots (by character, and by choices in bonus rounds).

They frequently talk about the win cap of 5000x, but the game is designed around 5-50x bonus rounds - so there's an inevitable disconnect where players are looking for the bigger wins. It sounds like there's been a 2800x win to date (and given how difficult it is to trigger, I would not be surprised if it's been once since launch) - which requires hitting either 1 in 43 top bonus, then getting both rare upgrades within the bonus, and having selected both the right character to double the win and getting a big award in The Next Level.

It's a quirky medium-variance game, decent technical design and in the current climate I'm not going to complain about a 97.63% top RTP (number 2, most of the bonuses are around 95%)… but the marketing is completely disconnected from the gameplay.

 

[dunover]

The +EV strategy for bonanza is to get Dazzas log in details.

That’s the clue.

lol...just had a @ChopleyIOM session (y'know when he got 4 features in 139 spins?) not quite that dramatic but 6 in about 850 spins.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Oh I’m sorry hear to your feature frequency has dropped mate.

 

[dunover]

Oh I’m sorry hear to your feature frequency has dropped mate.

Was doodling on WWTBAM feature-buy the other day, this is pro-rata worse than your 32-spin Bonanza filth:

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Yes funnily enough I’ve dabbled on that.

I felt a 150x buy for 20 spins was rather generous. Especially given the fact you can increase that number without risk.

Needless to say after a day of experimenting I was wrong.

Proves how hard it is to get a decent bonus and unless I was very unlucky it seemed to me the dead spins were even more prominent than the usual filth.

I mean think about it. You’re paying 150x for minimum 20 spins and often 30 and u still can’t win. Shows what garbage is served up 99% of the time even with a silly amount of spins.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Bit of a delve back into the archives for this one, to the year 2012, for a pub fruity session in my home town, when there were still just about enough traditional reel-based AWPs left for this to be a viable possibility, before the random £500ers completely took over.

 

[jasonuk]

It's very very easy to put together video after video of win after win after win, that's not honest, that's not accurate

11 years ago, and how true that prediction was...

 

[ChopleyIOM]

More vintage (if 2012 counts as vintage....) fruit machine play, with a 2023 introduction, ruminating on the death of the fruit machine and its disappearance from ubiquity in the UK.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

SHITBURST AHOY! This was originally uploaded, in four different parts, in late 2012 on an old YouTube channel of mine, and then released again, compiled into a single video, in April 2018. It is this single video compilation that I'm reuploading here.

PLEASE NOTE - I received a hard video copyright ban for the section from 10m53s to 13m26s due to YouTube really not liking 'Hits From The Bong' by Cypress Hill. As such I had to use the new YT beta feature which tries to remove the copyrighted music from the afflicted section without destroying the rest of the audio, and in fairness it's done a decent job but the audio during this section is still sub-optimal.

 

[dunover]

SHITBURST AHOY! This was originally uploaded, in four different parts, in late 2012 on an old YouTube channel of mine, and then released again, compiled into a single video, in April 2018. It is this single video compilation that I'm reuploading here.

PLEASE NOTE - I received a hard video copyright ban for the section from 10m53s to 13m26s due to YouTube really not liking 'Hits From The Bong' by Cypress Hill. As such I had to use the new YT beta feature which tries to remove the copyrighted music from the afflicted section without destroying the rest of the audio, and in fairness it's done a decent job but the audio during this section is still sub-optimal.

I remember doing the same nearly 500k spins and hitting 314x as best win IIRC. I was in the original thread when you did this. I just don't think it's possible to hit a full screen of bars as it's clearly set to have a win cap of 500x therefore you'd have normally won a certain amount BEFORE you had the final spin with 3 wild reels held, so it would at best spin in full bars one side and a single the other.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I remember doing the same nearly 500k spins and hitting 314x as best win IIRC. I was in the original thread when you did this. I just don't think it's possible to hit a full screen of bars as it's clearly set to have a win cap of 500x therefore you'd have normally won a certain amount BEFORE you had the final spin with 3 wild reels held, so it would at best spin in full bars one side and a single the other.

So combined we did the better part of one million spins, and the best win between us was 314x! Of course this was back in the days when NetEnt slots had unlimited demo play without the constant nag screens so you could just kick them off for 1000 spins at a time. (And use Cheat Engine to speed them up, if you were so inclined.)

I don't know why they didn't just put the 500x win in there as a single spin with the three wilds and stacks of bars, it'd make for a good marquee win.

Either way it was quite an eye-opener for me to see such a low volatility game be completely unwilling to offer up even its modest top prize of 500x.

 

[jasonuk]

Either way it was quite an eye-opener for me to see such a low volatility game be completely unwilling to offer up even its modest top prize of 500x.

I always thought - as with a lot of slots of that era - that they'd be quoting the best possible spin (so a full screen of bars) and it would be possible, however unlikely, to get beyond that. So it would be a little surprising if that wasn't the case... not that we're talking a vast amount of difference between 250x and 500x anyway.

It reminds me of the God of Storms Live slot launch, a surreal mix of "streamer" presentation style and a slot that makes Starburst look volatile...

Not surprisingly, they tried to talk up the big wins (of which there wouldn't be any, the theoretical limit was around 450x and that required a lot of things to fall into place) - but seeing the game take a week to hit the first 100x after launch (approx. 50,000 spins) and people ran a mile... it was axed a few months later.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Another old videogame played and reviewed for this video. 1987 this came out, and I remember it clearly. Christ I'm old.

 

[TheAddict]

Would make Vin Diesel blush that finish at 11:00 Chop. Watched that with a fat smile on me face. Ta.