Depositing at Videoslots again, because at least it works

Was my friend who hadthe Amiga. PD game I believe yeah, i forgot that term, PD, it's been so long lol. We would skip school, probably 11 years old, playig schorced pants. That's what we called it. Ithad a weapo called Crimson Flood, which woud flood an area then leave them buried miles beneath it once it had finished. Was better tha worms imo.

My friend was making games othe Amiga at the time, only 11 or 12 years old. He ripped off bubble bobble but used an ass and a head to burp and fart as the characters. Had a unique sense of humour :D

Was more of an Atari ST man myself ;)

The problem I had with the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST was their feeble sound compared to their main rivals, the Commodore 64 and Amiga respectively. I know that as Brits we're supposed to root for dear old Clive's plucky UK contender, but once I first heard the dulcet tones of the C64's SID chip I was a convert, and decamped from my Spectrum to the C64, although I kept my Spectrum 128 around too.

When the 16-bit computers first started becoming sort of affordable (albeit well out of reach of our household), I remember being shown an Atari ST round at a friend of a friend's, and whilst I was impressed by the graphics, the first thing that jumped out at me was the fact the music was worse than my on my C64! (Atari having used a pretty shit sound chip in the ST, of course.)

Then a good friend of mine got an Amiga A500 (I was still on my C64, the expense of an Amiga was pie in the sky to me as a teenager, we're talking 1988/1989 at this point), and I was utterly blown way by it, the graphics were as good or better as the Atari ST, but the sound and music the thing was capable of kicking out, just incredible. We spent hours and hours playing on his Amiga together, quite often just watching demos and cracktro screens, to enjoy the music and special graphical trickery the Amiga's custom graphics chips could produce.

This is one I very clearly remember us being transfixed by, this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware (unfortunately the little pulsating bars at the top of the screen get out of sync with the audio, which I suspect is because it's being run through an emulator rather than on actual hardware):

 
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The problem I had with the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST was their feeble sound compared to their main rivals, the Commodore 64 and Amiga respectively. I know that as Brits we're supposed to root for dear old Clive's plucky UK contender, but once I first heard the dulcet tones of the C64's SID chip I was a convert, and decamped from my Spectrum to the C64, although I kept my Spectrum 128 around too.

When the 16-bit computers first started becoming sort of affordable (albeit well out of reach of our household), I remember being shown an Atari ST round at a friend of a friend's, and whilst I was impressed by the graphics, the first thing that jumped out at me was the fact the music was worse than my on my C64! (Atari having used a pretty shit sound chip in the ST, of course.)

Then a good friend of mine got an Amiga A500 (I was still on my C64, the expense of an Amiga was pie in the sky to me as a teenager, we're talking 1988/1989 at this point), and I was utterly blown way by it, the graphics were as good or better as the Atari ST, but the sound and music the thing was capable of kicking out, just incredible. We spent hours and hours playing on his Amiga together, quite often just watching demos and cracktro screens, to enjoy the music and special graphical trickery the Amiga's custom graphics chips could produce.

This is one I very clearly remember us being transfixed by, this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware (unfortunately the little pulsating bars at the top of the screen get out of sync with the audio, which I suspect is because it's being run through an emulator rather than on actual hardware):


Not true at all -

yes, the Amiga had better graphics compared to the ST, but the latter was renowned for its sound hardware capabilities, offering MIDI support favoured by music producers. In fact, I remember hawking mine to a sound engineer, and we're talking late '90s, I'd imagine the ST still gets utilized for this very reason today if anything :cool:

C64's sound chipset was a cut above, its 3-channelled capabilities allowing the likes of Rob Hubbard to wrangle legendary sweeping scores from its hardware, of that there is no doubt!

Yet for 16-bit home computing, prior to the advent of the consoles' foray into the market, the Amiga was definitely a beast, especially graphically. Oh how I lamented not being able to play the likes of Monkey Island; cry at the cartoony greatness of North & South, or simply the acceptance that when perusing game boxes, that my C64 conversions would be laughably inferior to the arcade-perfect recreations of the Amigas and STs of this world :D
 
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Not true at all -

yes, the Amiga had better graphics compared to the ST, but the latter was renowned for its sound hardware capabilities, offering MIDI support favoured by music producers. In fact, I remember hawking mine to a sound engineer, and we're talking late '90s, I'd imagine the ST still gets utilized for this very reason today if anything :cool:

C64's sound chipset was a cut above, it's 3-channelled capabilities allowing the likes of Rob Hubbard to wrangle legendary sweeping scores from its hardware, of that there is no doubt!

Yet for 16-bit home computing, prior to the advent of the consoles' foray into the market, the Amiga was definitely a beast, especially graphically. Oh how I lamented not being able to play the likes of Monkey Island; cry at the cartoony greatness of North & South, or simply the acceptance that when perusing game boxes, that my C64 conversions would be laughably inferior to the arcade-perfect recreations of the Amigas and STs of this world :D

Woah Mr Goaty! I'm afraid I'm going to have to escalate things immediately to DEFCON NERD LEVEL 5 - I explicitly used the following phrase in my previous post for precisely this reason:

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this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware

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The ST's MIDI capabilities were (and still are!) legendary, but of little use to spotty teenaged oiks who were doing very well to even own a 16-bit computer, let alone the extravagant extra hardware that made the ST a music creation powerhouse for many years (decades!).

The ST's built-in sound chip was notoriously weak (and indeed was actually closely related to the sound chip used by the Spectrum 128 and Amstrad CPC), basically a cheap off the shelf part that was already long in the tooth when the ST was released -
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The Amiga on the other hand used a custom chipset designed specifically for the computer, with full digital and stereo audio capabilities, there's just no comparison, it absolutely knocked the AY chip in the ST into the proverbial cocked hat.

I agree completely that when combined with the appropriate MIDI hardware, the ST was an unparalleled machine for music creation (far more so than the Amiga), especially so given its price point and therefore accessibility, but all by itself, when relying just on its own hardware, its sound and music were some very weak sauce - and that's the use case I referenced, in my previous post. (i.e. Games, demos, crack screens etc.)

IN THE BLUE CORNER, the Atari ST version of Psygnosis' Obliterator, using its own internal sound hardware.



IN THE RED CORNER, the Amiga version of Psygnosis' Obliterator, using its own internal sound hardware.

 
Can I gain some gaming kudos for completing Abe's Odyssey, Abe's Exodus, South Park, some pirate one where you were a skeleton and Tomb Raider 1 (NO save gems!) on the PS1? Plus some good high scores on the arcade classics PS1 game with Missile Command and Asteroids etc. on it? Then 3 more Tomb Raiders on the PS2? Do I get in the club or is my pedigree lacking? I did play Pong as a kid back in 1977 too!
 
Can I gain some gaming kudos for completing Abe's Odyssey, Abe's Exodus, South Park, some pirate one where you were a skeleton and Tomb Raider 1 (NO save gems!) on the PS1? Plus some good high scores on the arcade classics PS1 game with Missile Command and Asteroids etc. on it? Then 3 more Tomb Raiders on the PS2? Do I get in the club or is my pedigree lacking? I did play Pong as a kid back in 1977 too!
You're alright - the PS1 was revolutionary in itself, with the 'Golden Age' being not long after in the form of the 128-bit era.

Post- Playstation 2 gaming is not a patch on what went before, and you're not missing anything, bar the odd sleeper hit or indie title.

Good to see you liked the Abe games, I think our jaws hit the floor when seeing the animations on that back in the day ?
 
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Had a bag of copied games too Chop, slapped on my lap when I was probably 9 years old. I'd already seen the girl show her butt at the end of Double Dragon 450 times in the arcade, but with 500 games at Christmas to play, after some careful consideration, I spent the day playing Double Dragon.
Was serial link'ing the amiga's on the pre Doom FPS games, was something like 5 fps framerate iirc lol. Such great times were to be had in the 90s :D
 
Forgive me father for I have sinned! Decided to have a £100 deposit at VS yesterday evening, to run alongside trying to knock down some heroic missions in Warcraft Rumble (we'll discretely gloss over how much I've spent on that game.....). After months of absence from the world of online slots (no deposits since December 2023!), it was actually quite nice to have a little dabble again.

I just plugged away at my old favourite Worms Reloaded (with JACKPOT KING!) as Worms is my favourite game on the Blueprint cabs in the pubs here, and the games are quite similar.

Playtime wise it was decent enough but honestly it was all very much one-way traffic until finally I got a wormhole to the Big Money round from the Jet Pack bonus, and I managed to skillfully (LOL) pick the 400x award, not bad really since the only two bigger than that are 500x and 1000x. (I think 1000x is basically the 'jackpot' on this game.)

That put me a bit into profit so I decided to see if I could land a bonus on Bonanza without my balance dipping back under £100, and it obliged, dropping G-O-L-D in under 200 spins. Alas it wasn't a great one and it did its usual trolling with the retrigger carts along the top track getting in the way, and all the reels managed to not line up into wins once the multiplier started to climb a bit, you old tinkers BTG! At least VS still have the 96% version.

All in all the session finished modestly in profit with £120 left from my starting point of £100, still haven't decided to withdraw it, or go again this evening.

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So I'm entering Session 3 of the grand Videoslots adventure with a balance of exactly £100. So far I have had playtime totaling eight hours and my collective RTP is precisely 100%.

High point was £160, low point so far has been £29. All spins have been at 20p except for the below.

I had a bit of a save last night, I was down to £60 and it was getting a bit late for a school night (6:30am start), so switched up to £1 spins on King Kong Cash Jackpot King, figuring it wouldn't take much luck to get back up £100. After a reasonable number of spins, and with only £29 left in the tank, I landed a feature and it stopped on the crappiest one, I was severely tempted to gamble it as the bottom feature can be so bad, but since I was on £1 stake and not needing a massive boost, decided to collect it.

Much to my surprise it gave the Big Money bonus round boost (first time I've seen it on this), which I can't complain about, although I felt slightly short-changed at 80x, but that was enough to put me back over £100. Played down to £100 and then called it a night.

So far I've been exclusively playing Jackpot King Blueprints, but this evening I will do Bonanza and record stats.

Screenshots below are from last night's Big Money save.

Let's see how Bonanza rolls this evening.....

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Well that was slightly depressing, you can rely on Bonanza to bring an end to a party!

Below are the stats.

I have no idea why people give this slot so much of their time and money, when you catch it like this it's a thoroughly miserable experience.

In playtime terms it's not too bad I suppose, but in three hours I had one feature that paid 14x, and the basegame didn't hit 50x once.

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£100 starting balance
20p spins

100 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £96.58p left
200 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £87.56p left
300 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £84.39p left
400 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £73.23p left
500 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £62.29p left
600 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £56.35p left
700 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £51.30p left
800 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £58.50p left
900 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £53.07p left
1000 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £43.41p left
1057 spins - FEATURE - 14x - £41.79p left
1157 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £44.96p left
1257 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £40.20p left
1362 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £33.03p left
1462 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £23.87p left
1562 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £11.83p left
1662 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £10.61p left
1762 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £1.92p left
1782 spins - BUST

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Well that was slightly depressing, you can rely on Bonanza to bring an end to a party!

Below are the stats.

I have no idea why people give this slot so much of their time and money, when you catch it like this it's a thoroughly miserable experience.

In playtime terms it's not too bad I suppose, but in three hours I had one feature that paid 14x, and the basegame didn't hit 50x once.

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£100 starting balance
20p spins

100 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £96.58p left
200 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £87.56p left
300 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £84.39p left
400 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £73.23p left
500 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £62.29p left
600 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £56.35p left
700 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £51.30p left
800 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £58.50p left
900 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £53.07p left
1000 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £43.41p left
1057 spins - FEATURE - 14x - £41.79p left
1157 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £44.96p left
1257 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £40.20p left
1362 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £33.03p left
1462 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £23.87p left
1562 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £11.83p left
1662 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £10.61p left
1762 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £1.92p left
1782 spins - BUST

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I think you get Bonanza but the bit you don't seem to realize is the sheer paucity of 50x base wins - I only ever play the bastard nowadays to exclusion of all other games as I love it. I suggest in future set the stop at the game's actual 'big win' bar of 25x +. I average one big win per session, usually this will be say a 24x of some 6OAK combo followed by a small tumble to take it over 25x. If not it will be 5OAK diamonds for bang on 25x, the next most common is 16 x 6OAK kings or aces which pays 28x. Your 50x + base game bar is a very rare hit, I see one maybe once every dozen sessions. In fact, it's more than most bastard features pay nowadays.
 
I think you get Bonanza but the bit you don't seem to realize is the sheer paucity of 50x base wins - I only ever play the bastard nowadays to exclusion of all other games as I love it. I suggest in future set the stop at the game's actual 'big win' bar of 25x +. I average one big win per session, usually this will be say a 24x of some 6OAK combo followed by a small tumble to take it over 25x. If not it will be 5OAK diamonds for bang on 25x, the next most common is 16 x 6OAK kings or aces which pays 28x. Your 50x + base game bar is a very rare hit, I see one maybe once every dozen sessions. In fact, it's more than most bastard features pay nowadays.

Yeah I know what I'm letting myself in for, once you drop below the expected feature frequency on Bonanza it's basically just a slow death of microwins. The fact that 50x wins are so rare in the basegame really does highlight how critical the feature is for any real chance of a raise.

Generally speaking I don't bother with it at all, but since I'd had a really good run on the Blueprints I figured I'd finish with a flourish (LOL....) on Bonanza.

TBH I'd rather just buy features on it.

That said, just checked my lifetime stats at VS on the game and I'm at 96.28%, albeit on a small spin sample (20K).
 
Nothing says 'Let's get the weekend started' like returning to the scene of a previous slaughter for some more futile plugging away at Bonanza.

Hopefully it won't be as awful as last time!

I have £104.55p because I received my Weekend Booster on top of my £100 deposit.

To even out those dull patches of FIVE MILLION YEARS between features, I'll have Warcraft Rumble on my tablet. £100 buys a lot of stuff in Warcraft Rumble!

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Well that folks is what you call a hot run on Bonanza, with my balance now nicely over £200 I think it might be time for a withdrawal.

Feature frequency is ahead of the curve (1/398), but most notably average feature pay is way over the top, at 166x.

Add in one basegame stop over 50x, and two over 100x, in just 1600 spins, and those are some nice stats. Chalk and cheese compared to last misery-fest!

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£104.55p starting balance
20p spins

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100 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £106.56p left
200 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £102.56p left
300 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £90.86p left
340 spins, 101x win - £109.06p left
436 spins, 170x win - £139.08p left
536 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £129.89p left
636 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £124.41p left
736 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £118.54p left
836 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £123.53p left
936 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £117.10p left
1036 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £102.39p left
1136 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £95.23p left
1146 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 206x - £135.80p left
1246 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £133.17p left
1262 spins - 60x win - £142.70p left
1308 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 159x - £168.23p left
1408 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £167.01p left
1479 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £161.96p left - SERVER ERROR RELOAD GAME
1480 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 115x - £184.79p left
1580 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £179.39p left
1592 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 182x - £216.80p left


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Back to the usual spawn.

My lifetime stats at VS (and I've had an account there since the early days) show that I'm basically bang on long term expected T-RTP - they've had a chunk of cash out of me :)
 
Withdrawals are for wimps.

Currently still up from where I finished last night, although Big Bonus played really hard work for a well..... big bonus. Fortunately a four scatters trigger and the top 100x pick led to a much welcomed save from a downward trajectory. (The way the bonus works on Big Bonus is you have infinite free spins with sticky wilds until you hit a single win that tops the threshold picked at the start of the bonus, so 100x is a really nice pick and one I've never had before.)

Round finished at 454x which is a nice result.

If you've never tried Big Bonus I'd recommend it, I covered it on my old channel. Nice game. Do be aware it can be hard to hit the bonus though, and sometimes they can pay wanky if you get the 20x threshold pick.

And The Finer Reels Of Life is still around as well, albeit in sub-standard HTML5 form, but it's still the same game.

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