My online slots videos (plus UK AWPs)

Something a bit off the beaten track this week.




I love these tales of Northern grit, the images of impoverished kids with thorn shorts and dirty knees making their own entertainment under the grey skies. Us Southerners don't know we're born...…:laugh:
 
I love these tales of Northern grit, the images of impoverished kids with thorn shorts and dirty knees making their own entertainment under the grey skies. Us Southerners don't know we're born...…:laugh:

I thought you was from Doncaster lol. My childhood was misspent down the arcade losing all my money in line up, cash zone and other quality mpu3 games :)

Rob
 
Here's an interesting idea, would you consider taking up a BIG bonus if the slot RTP was set lower?

Lets take an example:-

Bruce Lee standard RTP of 96%.
If the casino offered the game to be played at 86% RTP with a 300% bonus, would this tempt you?

You know that the house edge is higher, but would the bonus money give you the sweetener of a lot of extra playtime with the kicking of a 10% drop in RTP.
Would you severely notice the reduced RTP in regular play? I would probably be up trying it at least, mind you the problem with most bonuses is that they -EV

Rob

Yes, you would notice 4 times less playtime!
100 with RTP 96% will last for 2500 wagering
400 with RTP 86% will last for 2857 wagering
 
Here are my stats from 3Dice since I started playing there again in August.

Over 70,000 game rounds played and an RTP of 101.90%, which isn't too shabby. Thing is, for the 'they're compensated' folks my results gravitating back down to expected RTP in the future would be seen as evidence of compensation, rather than random numbers doing exactly what we'd expect them to do over time.

As you can see I rather like Enchanted Spins.

Only took 38,000 hands of Video Poker to hit a Royal Flush :eek2: (Although in fairness, that's still slightly ahead of average results, which is 1/42,000 or so with optimal strategy.)

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Here are my stats from 3Dice since I started playing there again in August.

Over 70,000 game rounds played and an RTP of 101.90%, which isn't too shabby. Thing is, for the 'they're compensated' brigade my results gravitating back down to expected RTP in the future would be seen as evidence of compensation, rather than random numbers doing exactly what we'd expect them to do over time.

As you can see I rather like Enchanted Spins.

Only took 38,000 hands of Video Poker to hit a Royal Flush :eek2: (Although in fairness, that's still slightly ahead of average results, which is 1/42,000 or so with optimal strategy.)

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I see Scatterville Skunks has redeemed itself after 'bending you over and firing a big one up your arse' :laugh:
 
Friday Night Slots session Part #1

Decided to have a punt at a Pragmatic Play slot for the very first time since there's the promo competition running here at Casinomeister.

Also 3Dice have a new slot on their books called Forge Of Elements.

As such it's some dual-slot play for this video.

Part #2 should be up later on this evening.

 
The game Jory recommended, nay, insisted, that I play - and I'm glad he did!

NOTE - Contains some scenes of explicit violence from the game. (I gathered my own footage for this review.)

 
The game Jory recommended, nay, insisted, that I play - and I'm glad he did!

NOTE - Contains some scenes of explicit violence from the game. (I gathered my own footage for this review.)


I have it on good authority that Jory insists you do Dark Souls III next. Failing that, you can opt for Bloodborne instead :D

Ok, I lied. Jory didn't say that. It was Mack :eek:
 
@ChopleyIOM I have used the €10 no deposit signup bonus on RedDice and have managed to cashout €60 after 30 times wagering. Had so much fun and hit quite a few 50-150x stake win, also had some dry patches but all in all I was very entertained with those slots! Definitely a change of pace from the regular slots and I'll probably give the 110% bonus a go too in a few weeks :thumbsup:
 
Glad you enjoyed yourself! :) I really like 3Dice's games for reasons I've covered extensively on my channel already. They don't scratch every single itch so I do play other softwares at other casinos, but for decent games with a solid RTP and sensible variance, I find they're a good bet.

Just be careful to match your stake to your bankroll though, as all their games are capable of some surprising suction if you catch them wrong.......
 
Made a lot of money out of these, one of the most 'doable' fruit machines ever. (But also one of the most complicated methods.)

Unfortunately it was pretty late in the day when I (a) Got hold of the method and (b) Had some of the machines round here and (c) Finally decided to take them on.

I remember in one pub the landlord appeared next to me and said he was turning the machine off because it was 'paying out too many jackpots'.

 
Also posted to the main Jammin' Jars thread, but I like to keep all my videos together in this thread as well.

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I played Jammin' Jars with a real £200 deposit, so you don't have to. (I also had 3Dice running at the same time, for a total investment of £400 of real cash deposits.)

This ended up turning into a bit of a mega-session over two nights.

Quite a long watch but if you've got the patience for it there some quite nice wins in there.

Featured games.

Jammin 'Jars
Squirrel Pike
Immortal Romance (Big Spins!)
Thunderstruck
Bonanza

 
Also posted to the main Jammin' Jars thread, but I like to keep all my videos together in this thread as well.

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I played Jammin' Jars with a real £200 deposit, so you don't have to. (I also had 3Dice running at the same time, for a total investment of £400 of real cash deposits.)

This ended up turning into a bit of a mega-session over two nights.

Quite a long watch but if you've got the patience for it there some quite nice wins in there.

Featured games.

Jammin 'Jars
Squirrel Pike
Immortal Romance (Big Spins!)
Thunderstruck
Bonanza



Good ass saving bonus round from IR you got there. ;)
Also pretty good Bonanza bonuses.

As for the first half of the video, you really shouldn't play games that you don't enjoy. It defeats the point of playing IMO.
 
Good ass saving bonus round from IR you got there. ;)
Also pretty good Bonanza bonuses.

As for the first half of the video, you really shouldn't play games that you don't enjoy. It defeats the point of playing IMO.

I felt strangely honour-bound to give Jammin' Jars a go with real cash as I'd beaten up on it so much, I thought it might work better on a psychological level if there was real money at stake.

But of course it didn't. At all.

Those types of games are definitely not for me!

And yes IR properly saved my ass and set me up for a far better session the next day :) £3 spins is way outside my comfort zone but as I said on the video, it was DEATH OR GLORY time. (That 600x stake win on Squirrel Pike was very welcome too.)

Also, as an extra note, I was playing a bit more at 3Dice earlier today and got my balance to just over £400. I decided to make a withdrawal of £300 and leave £100 in there to play with, as I want some funds available over at Videoslots and it seems daft to deposit with my card when I've got £400 sloshing around at 3Dice.

Requested the £300 withdrawal to Neteller, and it was in my Neteller account inside of an hour, not too shabby on a Saturday evening!

As for Bonanza, my rich run on that slot clearly can't continue forever!.......
 
As for Bonanza, my rich run on that slot clearly can't continue forever!.......

Not to re-open that can of worms but...I couldn't help but notice in your video that you now "see" what you need in the cascades to get the next win (like you knew that you needed a K on that reel in a bonus...). You mentioned in a previous video that you couldn't do that.

Now I don't know if you could find the game a bit more enjoyable but IMO "seeing" what you need creates anticipation and is a big part of the fun on that slot.
 
Yes the bonus round on Bonanza is very good, in fairness to myself I've always said that but I think you're correct in that as you can 'read' the slot better over time, the excitement and anticipation of the round can be increased.

Let's be honest about this though, I'm running ridiculously well on Bonanza overall, and haven't experienced the free spins drought yet that so many others have. On the session in that video the first bonus took well over 600 spins to come in IIRC (which isn't that bad anyway), but thereafter they were very regular - and that sort of bonus round frequency is always going to flatter a session and one's opinion of a slot! (Especially when the average pay for a round is nearly 100x, as it is on Bonanza.)
 
I have it on good authority that Jory insists you do Dark Souls III next. Failing that, you can opt for Bloodborne instead :D

Ok, I lied. Jory didn't say that. It was Mack :eek:

haha, it nearly worked!

The next game I would recommend is "Bioshock Trilogy".

I'm just glad at least one person actually bought a game I recommended.

It's that feeling when after you experienced something amazing, you want to grab someone and say "you have to play this".

Bioshock,
Fallout 4
Resident Evil remastered.
Hitman Absolution

If you had a paid to view channel @ChopleyIOM I would subscribe to see that.

You're in-depth analyse is really interesting for a hard core gamer like me, even if you play on very very very very easy mode. :P I would love to break down all your comments but I feel this post is already too long...

Here's to hoping you continue making more gaming videos. As someone who has quit gambling, I look forward to it.

Cheers
 
The next game I would recommend is "Bioshock Trilogy".

Bioshock,
Fallout 4

You're in-depth analyse is really interesting for a hard core gamer like me, even if you play on very very very very easy mode. :p I would love to break down all your comments but I feel this post is already too long...
Cheers

I played the original Bioshock through twice, once on 360 and then on PC, fantastic game. Bioshock 2 I never really got into for some reason. Bioshock Infinite I completed but felt it was quite badly flawed, although the second half was far better than the first half.

Fallout 4 (and similar) - I don't get on with that 'Bethesda Style' of game. Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 - bought and tried them all, never managed to get more than a few hours in.

As for playing on easy mode :D As I mention in the video I'm just shit at playing with a gamepad, keyboard and mouse is where it's at for me (which is why PC is generally my preferred platform). FPS games I can't play with a pad at all, (when I played through Bioshock on 360, I basically upgraded everything I could in physical attack terms, so that I could run straight at the baddies and kill them with the wrench......), third person games I can blunder through with a pad but that's about it.

For comparison, the 2016 DOOM reboot game (which is one of my top ten games ever), I played through three times on PC on increasing difficulty levels, finishing off on NIGHTMARE difficulty (the highest difficulty level), with a 100% completion run, doing all the rune challenges and all optional bits and pieces - but I was in my comfort zone there of using keyboard and mouse :)
 
Chopley I drafted a message last week about your jazzy new intro but didn't think it worthy of posting :oops: I was trying to work out who that singer was and the words being sung :confused:, got a 90's feel to it.

fishta did a good job there with that intro, very lively with a degsy degworth feel to it :thumbsup: so much so I thought you had done it yourself :laugh:

Glad you mentioned 'on a bucket' been watching his channel recently after he left a comment under one of your jammin jar videos, its interesting to find out about a fruit machine player's adventures and mishaps.

I wonder how many other people on the isle of man knew how to 'force/trick' machines and whether you came across any on your pub fruity sessions, and also did you have to be extra discreet when playing given the fact the landlord/regulars would soon recognise you and notice you were trying to empty the machines as you can't really be as anonymous on an island :cool: :)
 
Chopley I drafted a message last week about your jazzy new intro but didn't think it worthy of posting :oops: I was trying to work out who that singer was and the words being sung :confused:, got a 90's feel to it.

Just post a reply if you feel minded to, I welcome any and all feedback, positive or negative, or just a comment. And it's always nice to have a bit of something to have a chat about regardless :)

I wonder how many other people on the isle of man knew how to 'force/trick' machines and whether you came across any on your pub fruity sessions, and also did you have to be extra discreet when playing given the fact the landlord/regulars would soon recognise you and notice you were trying to empty the machines as you can't really be as anonymous on an island :cool: :)

TBH it's never really been that bad in terms of getting hassle here, I was just known as 'the fruit machine guy' around town and generally got left alone, it was only in the £70 jackpot era when the tricks were getting seriously blatant that I started to attract some 'fire' as it's known.

I did once have to buy a very large round of drinks for all the locals in a pub though, having travelled outside my usual territory and winning a large amount of money out of the machines in their pub - definitely some hostility in the place on that occasion! :)

I'm glad AWPs are basically extinct now, even when there was decent money to be made it was never exactly fun.
 
I played the original Bioshock through twice, once on 360 and then on PC, fantastic game. Bioshock 2 I never really got into for some reason. Bioshock Infinite I completed but felt it was quite badly flawed, although the second half was far better than the first half.

Fallout 4 (and similar) - I don't get on with that 'Bethesda Style' of game. Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 - bought and tried them all, never managed to get more than a few hours in.

As for playing on easy mode :D As I mention in the video I'm just shit at playing with a gamepad, keyboard and mouse is where it's at for me (which is why PC is generally my preferred platform). FPS games I can't play with a pad at all, (when I played through Bioshock on 360, I basically upgraded everything I could in physical attack terms, so that I could run straight at the baddies and kill them with the wrench......), third person games I can blunder through with a pad but that's about it.

For comparison, the 2016 DOOM reboot game (which is one of my top ten games ever), I played through three times on PC on increasing difficulty levels, finishing off on NIGHTMARE difficulty (the highest difficulty level), with a 100% completion run, doing all the rune challenges and all optional bits and pieces - but I was in my comfort zone there of using keyboard and mouse :)

I was the same with Fallout 4, I played 1h 55m then I closed and thought, "I will never play this again".

But I remember I was waiting on a large Neteller withdrawal and I needed something to take my mind of logging in to refresh my balance, so I loaded Fallout 4 again and carried on.

It was only at that moment I understood how in depth the game was. I suddenly "got it" and then I was hooked. I read a lot about people giving up after so many hours so I understand why, the best part of that withdrawal was I played that game because obviously i lost all the money.

Since I recommended you a game, perhaps you can recommend me one? In my current quit gambling mentality I welcome any distraction from that world. So recommend me a game to play and my goal will be to 100% it.
 
I was the same with Fallout 4, I played 1h 55m then I closed and thought, "I will never play this again".

But I remember I was waiting on a large Neteller withdrawal and I needed something to take my mind of logging in to refresh my balance, so I loaded Fallout 4 again and carried on.

It was only at that moment I understood how in depth the game was. I suddenly "got it" and then I was hooked. I read a lot about people giving up after so many hours so I understand why, the best part of that withdrawal was I played that game because obviously i lost all the money.

Since I recommended you a game, perhaps you can recommend me one? In my current quit gambling mentality I welcome any distraction from that world. So recommend me a game to play and my goal will be to 100% it.
Hey I know it's Chopley's thread but no way are you doing 'Chopley requests' :p

I've been asking him to peruse the Souls series for months and still nothing :D
 
Hey I know it's Chopley's thread but no way are you doing 'Chopley requests' :p

I've been asking him to peruse the Souls series for months and still nothing :D

My only request will be that he buys a 4k capture device.

As much as I love my ps4 pro, his video highlighted just how poor the capture quality is. It may be 1080p, but when the bitrate is so low, it looks like 480p.
 
A near-clone of Bonanza and a super-high variance Pragmatic Play slot called Peking Luck running together in real money mode - a recipe for sure success!

FEATURED GAMES:

Diamond Mine
Peking Luck
John Ballsack & The Quest For The Bellend of Perpetual Motion (briefly)

 
Since I recommended you a game, perhaps you can recommend me one? In my current quit gambling mentality I welcome any distraction from that world. So recommend me a game to play and my goal will be to 100% it.

Have you played either of the Dishonored games? They're both about as good as each other I'd say, and I'd peg them both as being as good as The Last Of Us. Real solid 9/10 material.

Also, the 2016 reboot of Doom, if you haven't played that yet.

(And Borderlands 2 (plus all DLCs) of course, but I guess you must have done that already?)
 
My only request will be that he buys a 4k capture device.

As much as I love my ps4 pro, his video highlighted just how poor the capture quality is. It may be 1080p, but when the bitrate is so low, it looks like 480p.

The PS4 Pro's video capture quality is pretty poor but what really killed it in that video is the stages it went through:

1) Capture videos on PS4 Pro
2) Play videos on PC in VLC, whilst capturing using Bandicam so I could record the commentary
3) Edit together in Vegas Movie Studio 14
4) Render out using a pretty shitty 1080p codec with less than amazing bitrate settings

I was having dreadful crashing problems with Vegas Movie Studio 14 when rendering out using any of the more advanced codecs, it's a problem with the software that they never fixed. I've owned Vegas Movie Studio 15 for a while but that had awful problems with sound sync when using Bandicam captured footage in the editing process, but I finally found a fix for that last week (no thanks to Magix, whose software it is).

As such I've finally been able to move to Vegas Movie Studio 15, and I'm now able to render out using a much higher quality codec that can leverage Nvidia's NVENC rendering technology, the Peking Luck/Diamond Mine video uses the new 'creation and rendering pipeline' and is far better quality. (I'm also now rendering at 60FPS instead of 30FPS.)

So unfortunately The Last Of Us video fell foul of sub-optimal software and creation techniques, which have been rectified now :) (Although we are still stuck with the PS4 Pro's rather lacklustre video captures, which really are awful compared to the XB1X.)
 
Awp's extinct? have you been in a Wetherspoons, think about 9 in one pub in Leeds alone!

It's often said that Wetherspoons are almost single-handedly keeping the AWP on life support in the UK.

As I understand it they negotiate incredibly good deals in terms of revenue sharing, and the suppliers of the machines have all sorts of conditions placed on them. So it's basically a 'no lose scenario' for Spoons, hence they ram loads of them into their pubs in a way that would be completely uneconomical for anyone else.

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This is a couple of years old, it's got worse since then.

JD Wetherspoon, one of the UK’s largest pub companies, revealed last week that the proportion of its income from machines had halved since 2000 from 6 per cent to 3 per cent, or £48m of £1.6bn revenues. Machine revenue at Wetherspoon has fallen in seven of the past 10 years, while at rival pubco Punch Taverns “machine and other revenue” has fallen 16 per cent in the past five years, from £14.3m to £12m.
 
The second part of the Gambling Low Ebbs series.

PLEASE NOTE - Note a happy tale at all, do not expect to get cheered up. Also, finishes up with some talk around responsible gambling, industry behaviour, feature buys etc.

 
A near-clone of Bonanza and a super-high variance Pragmatic Play slot called Peking Luck running together in real money mode - a recipe for sure success!

FEATURED GAMES:

Diamond Mine
Peking Luck
John Ballsack & The Quest For The Bellend of Perpetual Motion (briefly)




You love the Megaways slots - at least you should do!
 
You love the Megaways slots - at least you should do!

It's like they're free money, this online gambling thing is akin to winning the lottery every single day!

(My luck on them is clearly going to turn in spectacular fashion in the not too distant future......)
 
The second part of the Gambling Low Ebbs series.

PLEASE NOTE - Note a happy tale at all, do not expect to get cheered up. Also, finishes up with some talk around responsible gambling, industry behaviour, feature buys etc.



It's hard for me to go into details on this subject because of the language barrier but I'll give it a shot. The way you interpret things is different than mine. What you define as compassion, I see it as one of the main source of the problem.

Light beer isn't a solution for alcoholism just like slots without a feature buy aren't "better" for compulsive gamblers. The problem isn't how the slot is designed and you (of all people) should know that. In your video you are saying that you were losing all your money on shitty machines with rock bottom RTP's and £6 jackpots. The problem certainly wasn't how tempting the machines were (because they were clearly bad), the problem was you. You were looking for that thrill of winning, that thrill of beating the machine. Regardless of how shitty the machine was and that you knew that you never had a chance to get your money back, you were still looking for that sweet, addicting, adrenaline rush.

That's the issue and everything else is accessory. I don't want the machines more friendly for people with addictions. It won't cure anything, they'll keep playing until they lose everything. Death by a thousand cuts isn't compassion, it's sadism.

What we want, as a society, is those people to seek help and to stop gambling completely. I'm all for actually helping them with resources. Real help though, not adapting the machines to make sure that they can continue to play.

You know which regulation works best? Raising the minimum bet. They are doing it here in B&M casinos....$100 will buy you around 10 min of play time these days. Fuck that.
 
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The second part of the Gambling Low Ebbs series.

PLEASE NOTE - Note a happy tale at all, do not expect to get cheered up. Also, finishes up with some talk around responsible gambling, industry behaviour, feature buys etc.


That was another compelling video Chopley, which will be relevant to the situations people are finding themselves getting into today with online gambling and bookie fobt's. Although it must've been bloody difficult to do, I hope it was kind of beneficial for you, in a cathartic way, to relive and recount those dark times.

IMO The danger for youngsters [and to a lesser extent us oldsters] is potentially even greater nowadays as its only one mouse click away; offsetting that to a minor degree there is probably more help and awareness available than was the case in the 1990's.

I 100% agree with your closing thoughts re feature buys and that the industry needs sensible regulation, which at the moment for me remains lacking, the UKGC seem to believe adding more tiresome kyc procedures is the solution to everything. :rolleyes:


I don't want the machines more friendly for people with addictions.

The games though are designed to be addictive and gambling is capable of both influencing and altering mood, some parts of the slot making industry seem to now want to create the gambling equivalent of 'mainlining' or a 'crack' version of their game, on the basis that there is a 'demand' for it, and the end result will be they make more money but leave behind far more casualties destroyed by gambling addiction.
 
While looking up a bit about slots and addiction, I came across a very interesting article:
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" To keep players gambling, all slots rely on the same basic psychological principles discovered by B.F. Skinner in the 1960s. Skinner is famous for an experiment in which he put pigeons in a box that gave them a pellet of food when they pressed a lever. But when Skinner altered the box so that pellets came out on random presses — a system dubbed variable ratio enforcement — the pigeons pressed the lever more often. Thus was born the Skinner box, which Skinner himself likened to a slot machine.

The Skinner box works by blending tension and release — the absence of a pellet after the lever is pressed creates expectation that finds release via reward. Too little reward and the animal becomes frustrated and stops trying; too much and it won’t push the lever as often."


and also this which may explain the reasoning behind netent variance:

"Natasha Schüll, an associate professor at MIT, says modern slot machines essentially continued the trend started by Redd so as not to jolt players too intensely in the form of losses — or wins. "Too-big wins have been shown to stop play because it’s such an intense shift in the situation that you’ll kind of pause, you’ll stop, you’ll take your money and leave"

hence netent's shift away from games that could give DOA payouts; speaking personally I prefer medium variance games, you don't normally get wiped out straightaway and can win a decent amount, plus normally you don't have to complete thousands of spins to experience the feature round. Raging rhino would probably be a good example, but the new html version does seem to be higher variance somehow, if they'd added an extra 1% rtp they could have improved the base game or maybe had a slow building jackpot.
 
Halloween night sorted...

That backlight really adds to the atmosphere. It was only £12 on Amazon but well worth it!!!!



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Banana for scale (bottom left)

Yes, I still remain proud of the fact I spent my winnings and quit gambling.

I absolutely love my new gaming setup and it's all from 10 free spins on dead of alive.

For once gambling has a positive story so I feel the urge to blurt it out any chance I get...

Spend your winnings the next time you withdraw!!!!

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Re2 is currently pre-ordered.

Think about how you feel when netent make a new slot, then multiply that feeling by 1,000,000.

That's why video games win.

I've already played this game so many times I know the dialogue, but I DLed the DLC which I'm saving for Wednesday night...

Do not underestimate my gaming addiction, it's worse than slots...
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Red Dead 2 looks life-consuming and utterly breathtaking to boot. To think of the joy one could have with that for months, years even....for the equivalent of a £40, 20-minute Bonanza death session :D

Easter Sale no doubt. Pin this comment..

Just like how I fully expect the new God of War to go on sale during Christmas, you can save a lot of money by simply waiting..

Apparently RDR2 has some visual bugs for ps4 pro which are yet to be resolved.

That's another benefit with waiting, it give's them time to iron out the kinks...
 
Easter Sale no doubt. Pin this comment..

Just like how I fully expect the new God of War to go on sale during Christmas, you can save a lot of money by simply waiting..

Apparently RDR2 has some visual bugs for ps4 pro which are yet to be resolved.

That's another benefit with waiting, it give's them time to iron out the kinks...
I'd like that to be the case, but with triple-AAA games like this they stay at a premium for the best part of a year. Only just seen Monster Hunter World drop in price, the thing just would not cave, and that's close to 11 months after release! :eek:

I do agree it is worth waiting for one or two patches before purchasing these days though, especially when games are released near-broken :cool:
 
Not really into gaming these days but USED to be, BIG time!

Would love a video of the new Resident Evil game with commentary etc ;)

Those games back on my old PS1 were so impressive and the game play and story lines were (for the time) simply awesome!

Kind of started to lose interest when players needed about 20 fingers and sixteen toes just to play the blumin things :o
 

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