So, after taking a look at Barcrests latest games I am moving straight onto Bell Fruit.

http://www.bellfruitgames.co.uk/

Have to say their web site looks much better and it has a better feel to it.

Going straight into the news section and they have 2 new licences. Family Guy and Ronnie O Sullivans Snooker. Ronnie O Sullivan is a clubber, Family Guy is a £35er. This Latest News was in January. I would have honestly thought that with the new £70 jackpots coming in they would have had some more up to date news.

Now, we all know very well that when Bell Fruit get a licence they make full use of it. I can remember when they got one and made a great machine and moved on. Doctor Who, The Big Breakfast and Only Fools and Horses (which they did make a few machines based on this but each were completely different and all fantastic machines). Sating that they did make several versions of The Big Breakfast but again, all diffferent and even a nice simple lo tech.

Anyway, their latest 3 games are Deal or no Deal The Perfct Game, Double Deal or No Deal and Family Guy. Good job they did family guy or all 3 of thier latest would have been Deal or no Deals!

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Deal or no Deal - The Perfect Game.





I honestly don't think i'll ever play this. The only way would be halves with a friend. Bell fruit never dissapoint with the look af any machine and this one does look great.

Like Barctrst they don't say a great deal (or no deal) about it.

Taken directly from the website linked above.



Game Description.

MEGA PRIZE cash panel advertises the new £70 jackpot value
Select Stake - highest stake activates all 8 WinlinesBoxes add to Feature Entry matrix - can light red for super feature entry

Light a row or column in the Matrix or spin a reel win to access Feature Board - squares on the Feature Board include:

Add Cash/Feature – adds to Cash/Feature trails
Message From the Banker – adds to trail; collect any time for hint in the alpha
Spin – spins reels, giving more chances to fill Feature Entry matrix
Phone – adds to Streak trails; light 3 of a kind to win that Streak (Streak, Super Streak or Mega Streak)
Multi-add – adds to Cash/Feature trails, Streak trails, Feature Entry matrix
Perfect Game– increases values on the panels in the Super Feature
Fill the Feature Entry matrix to activate Deal or No Deal Super Feature
Once in the Super Feature, values are eliminated from the panels, followed by an offer from the banker
Player may Deal (accept the offer) or No Deal (reject the offer)
If all offers are rejected, the ‘mystery value’ is revealed and awarded
This value could be Mega Prize, a winning streak on the panel of large cash values above the feature

I have to say I do like the idea of the 8 winlines!

Only time will tell on this one. You can bet it will be a huge sucess due to the theme. Bell Fruit really did know what they were doing after all!

FruitVideos score. 5/10. Simply because everyone has a chance of bagging a jackpot via the game.

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Heading onto the next one. Double Deal or no Deal.





Now this one does look quite good.I do like the idea of the double feature. You can work out quite quickly which amount you have in you box. As long as there are still 2 matcihng amounts either side.

There is a video of this one on youtube. Not mine but the one and only Buddylove.



He has it down as a Mazooma.

Again, great looking machines with a very used theme but we all know the theme works.

There's a bit more info on the bell fruit website. Inof below is taken directly of their site.


Game Description.

Select stake (on £35)
Higher stake turns trails red
Fruits on winline add to fruit ladder;
complete ladder for enhanced feature entry. Completing ladder while in feature awards mega streak
Spin a reel win or 3 phones tic-tac-toe to access feature board
Move around feature board adding to cash / feature trails etc.
Landing on a box square adds to streak matrix in red or blue. Complete for relevant streak:
mixed = streak, blue = super streak, red = mega streak
Message from the banker – a special hint appears in the alpha
Light 3 phones – from the feature board and/or the winline – to activate the Deal or No Deal super feature
Once active, player may exchange to super feature at any time
Deal or No Deal super feature is played on the left hand panel in the usual manner If 4 phones are lit, Double DOND is activated:
value eliminations and cash offers appear on both super feature panels
If player chooses to deal, the higher of the two offers is awarded
If all offers are rejected, the mystery value is revealed and awarded
After 4 phones have been lit, they start adding in red
If 3 phones are lit in red, when player chooses to deal, both offers are awarded
4 phones lit in red – jackpot guaranteed!

It is good to have a video to go with this. Well worth a watch!

Again, with the theme it's going to be a massive hit, or has been. The machine has been out for a whle now.

FruitVideos Score. 5/10. This is simply down to the fact that it's not a clone!!!

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Ok, last up is Family Guy.





Right. Can You Beat The Banker has been cloned and cloned and cloned. Bell fruit. Please, if you are going to clone then plase work you way through your ideas. What's In Your Box was probably the best Deal or no Deal you made! Great value on all stakes and plenty going on for everyone.

Taht's my game description. It's a clone that's been clone several times over. A real shame, with Bell Fruit getting a new licence I was hoping for a new game. Not an old one dressed in in new clothes. This machine could have been so much better but it's not.

Game Description, taken directly from their webste.


Select stake
On max stake cash / feature trails turn red (super)
Spin 3 Stewie symbols tic-tac-toe or a reel win to access the feature board

Feature board squares – which may be repeated with a correct hi/lo gamble - include:

Cash / feature – add to cash / feature trails
Streak symbols – add to streak matrix in red or blue. Complete matrix to be awarded corresponding streak: mixed = streak, blue = super streak, red = mega streak
Quagmire’s tip – gives an instant hint in the alpha
Light 3 Stewie symbols – from the feature board and/or the winline – to activate the Family Guy super feature
Player may choose to exchange to super feature at any time once active
A mystery value spins into the top reel
Some cash values are eliminated from the super feature panels, followed by a cash offer
Player may choose to ‘take it’ or ‘leave it’
If all offers are refused, the mystery value is revealed and awarded

Look out for:

Fruit ladder – complete from reel game for enhanced feature entry; complete from top game for mega streak
Cash or bust – awards a dapple on entire glass, may stop anywhere from lose to Jackpot

Again, thanks to Buddylove we have a video!



FruitVideos Score. 0/10. Not even a point for the Family Guy. It has been bought and not properly used!

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Overall, 2 good looking Deal or no Deals and a great looking Family Guy.

I have to say.

Bell Fruit 1-0 Barcrest

One last thing Bell Fruit. Are you ever going to update the Qps Website? It's been the same, just a splash screen for what seems like forever :-)

So here we have Barcrests 3 newest games as shown on http://www.playersheaven.com/barcrest/new_games/

All 3 machines look pretty good. Some might say that The Lepechaun's Gold and Alien look as good as each other!

Pacman though does look very good in design. I will buy one of these in 3 years or so.

Only problem is the £70 jackpot and a £1 a spin. Why did this happen? When the fruit machine companies find out that it will turn out to be an epic fail what then? £2 a spin an a £100 jackpot?

Just imagine what these 3 machine would have been like on 30p play and £15 jackpot. They would have played so much there would have been ques. But no, instead machines will go empty, people will get banned from pubs for emptying machines. Not just players.... what am I saying, is there a casual punter out there going to put there loose change in the fruit machine?

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Anyway, onto The Leprechaun's Gold. Rainbow riches is a massive hit on the £500.





The machine looks great. Not played it myself and probably never will. Can't really comment on it but Barcrest say,

The latest instalment in the legendary Rainbow Riches series of games Includes the much loved bonus gamble option from the original game!

Well, not a lot then!

They do give some hints and tips though.

* Use the overprinted nudges and Lucky Horseshoe symbols to generate fruit wins
* You'll be seeded in the cash ladder and may now gamble on one of two hi-lo numbers to direct progression in the feature grid
* Bonus positions and steps may be used to improve the odds
* Use nudge symbols on the reels to nudge in the wins
* Use nudges carefully as there may be a better win!
* Three Lucky Horseshoes symbol awards bonus nudges
* Step to a bonus symbol during the hi-lo game to process it
* Play the £1 game for maximum excitement. Minimum fruit win is £4!!!

Some good tips to be had there! :-)

Just remember, on a £1 a go the 3 hold system is out of the window. Spin. Hold, hold, hold £4. Great! £4 in £4 win.

If you are a member of players heaven then you can buy a super tip for a star. I had 14 of these so super tip bought! Good job to as this tip needs to kept close to your cheat. Don't tell anyone.

Super Tip!

Do the Irish Jig if you think you are good enough!

So there you have it. Seroiusly, that's it.

Fruitvideos score. 0.1/10. This is for effort. Make something new, think of something better. If you are going to reglass, reglass something decent. Please please don't DOND us though!

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Next up is Pacman. Pacman is a great idea. No doubt a clone of an existing machine but Pacman is Pacman. No doubt the machine will play like a pig but a newish theme goes down well.





So here's Barcrests have to say.

Pac-Man is the latest game to come from Barcrest Games. Re-live those classic arcade moments in a brand new format!

Ok, so them fond memories are 10p for 30 mins game play. This is what you will lose on 1 spin on the machine and that is if the machine is set to 90% (unlikely).

We have some hints and tips for this one too.

* The game features a 1-7 trail into multi levels
* You can feature exchange by hi-lo gambling reel wins and move around the lapper using the 1-12 reel shooting at cash, feature and the super zone
* Hold your numbers wisely to land on the 'entry' arrow or a bonus
* Collect three Pac-man icons to access the ‘Super Pac-man’ hidden reel
* A ‘mystery value’ spins into hidden reel
* Values on the ‘Super Pac-man’ panels are eliminated, followed by an offer on the alpha display
* You may Accept (collect) or Reject (continue) the offer. If all offers are rejected, the mystery value is revealed and awarded

Nice tips! :-)

Again, a super tip can be bought for 1 star. Are you ready? Are you sure?

Super Tip!

Look out for the Hints and Megas Hint that appear at random in the top and bottom game.

Well, I guess it's better than the other one!

FruitVideos score. 5/10. This is on'y because it looks so good. Should go down quite well if you can afford to play it.

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Last up is Alien. Yes, a new theme! But antoher clone...





Basically exactly the same as The Leprechauns Gold.

This is what Barcrest have to say.

Alien is the latest branded product to come from the Barcrest Games stable. You will find this innovative game simply Out Of This World!

So not alot again.

The hints and tips are exactly the same.

What about the super tip?

Super Tip!

Out of This World - give it a try!

So all in all, pant's!

Fruitvideos score. 0.2/10 as it's not a clone of a clone of a colne and so on. It's just a clone of a clone of a clone etc etc.

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So that rounds up Barcrest 3 latest machines. I predict epic fails all round. Not because the games look bad. Simply the Amusement costs to much.

It's been a while since I last posted here so let's get the ball rolling with Buddylove4000.

Buddylove, buddylove. Where did this guy come from? Quality video after video.

You can thank yours truly for the legend that is buddylove. I can still remember standing in Andys in Hunstanton, filming a Red Alert. Dom says 'why are you filming?' 'Is something going to happen?'. I say yes and it's for my youtube page.

Well, that was it. Dom, wtih phone in hand started filming fruit machines! GTFIT

Just going over his channel it's hard to pick out some of his best videos. Lot of Deal of no Deal videos which, I won't touch 90% of them with a barge pole lol.

You have dream Factory.



Can you beat the Banker?



The Big Deal.



Hall Of Fame.



The Quiz Game!



The Power 5.



And that just to name a few. There are a good 30+ different Deal Or No Deal videos on his channel.

But lets forget deal or no deal, just for a bit. His channel really has much better videos that the bearded one. Lets talk £500 jackpots.

What the f@@k? £500s are pretty hard to hit but Dom is a different thing all together. I have never known anyone to get pots, jackpots, massive features and some pretty crazy videos than anyone I have ever meet, and I have meet alot of fruity players. I tend to stay away from them myself these day but Dom, you keep going. You must be up so much from them! I think I have had pots on Rainbow riches about 5 times, I don't play them that much so that's pretty good. Well, I though that was pretty good.

On the Buddylove4000 channel there are that many pot videos it puts all other fruity channels to shame! I got several good pot videos but we are talking a few, not more than 10!



Down to his last £10!

It's not just he who is lucky. His future wife (lol) the winning babe is just a jammy! Plus she can beat him up lol.



It great to see him buying a machine. What a great machine to buy . An Electrocoin Red Bar.



We all know why he bought this. If you don't then tune into his channel. He loves the Bar X 7s. We all know how crap they are but he has them sorted. Roll ins, holds runs you name it. His channel hold them all!



And,



We've all had this happen but it happens to Dom too often lol! Good luck to you though. If you can make it work, make it work mate :-)

So that's an overview of his channel.

'Get the fuck out there' and get some more videos of those £70 jackpot machine now!

BIG BOARD!

A few years ago Barcrest were one of the best fruit machine companies out there. Their games were all very playable. This machine was no exception.

On the outside it was a horrible game, extremely nasty to those who didn't know how to play it, extremely great for those that did. If you tired to brute fore this one you were going to get your wallet drained very quickly! You couldn't just go lower than 10s and higher than 3s, it would kill you off almost straight away. What you had to do was step to a decent number and then you were odds on to a hi lo gamble win. This meant you needed as many steps as possible and when you ran out you had to know what to collect.

Here's a clip of the machine in a happy mood, offerening lots of steps from the bonus and giving bad numbers that step too good numbers, if that makes sense.



The machine also had some great SFX!

Getting a jackpot repeater was hard work. The only 2 ways of this were a supermode jackpot or filling the steps. Filling the steps was much easier to do. All you had to do was have a cople of step and have a couple of nudges left. Simply respining the reel would often bring in other numbers adn alot of the time hitting the 4 or 5 which would give you a huge step boost! Check the vid out.



There were some sure signs of readyness on this machine. Just from the bonus aswell. Selector was great, usually giving 4 steps but if it gave nudges someone had done something seriously wrong! With nudges you could nudge as many times as possible but as soon as the numbers were nudged in for the feature, that's what you'd end up with. Blue 7s, melons and red 7s could be had from nudges! Starting a feature with a win like this would usually give you the top. Maybe a big top, again from selector :-)



This machine and it's clones loved to do a 3 jackpot run. Jackpot was prety hard to get if you dodn't know what to look for. The 3 stand out features were reel roulette on super mode, step to nearest either super or normal and loco hold. Step to nearest was easy as, there was 1 set up where you needed 5 nudges and then enough to get to the feature. Basically you'd have a red 7 on reel 1 and reel 3, on or close to the winline. Within 5 nudges jackpot symbols could be nudged in the reel 1 and 3s winline. From this point jakcpot is there with step to nearest.

Reel roulette on super was easy enough. Just have a jckpot symbol on basically anywhere but the winline on reel 2. A slow pick of whichever win you wanted. Stop it on a jackpot symbol for jackpot!

Loco hold was a bit more complex. You had to set the reels up so that when the reels stepped round jackpot could be taken via a super hold. Sounds easy but takes a bit more setting up.

Here's a clip of this machine giving a couple of jackpots.



If on the feature you were offered supermode or boost then the machine was ready to pay. The machine was most of the time in this state due to it being a bastard to the casual punter! Hitting super mode was great, you just knew a jackpot wasn't too far away!



This machine is quite old now. Not many about anymore. Your only hope is in a seaside arcade but then it'll be on a £5 jackpot, which to be fair, isn't worth the bother. Luckly for you (and me) there is fruit machine emulation. The video is Golden Dragon running in mfme9.4, the unofficial leaked version of mfme. Te layout is a 'Classic' version. None or little graphics involved but the machines is functional. I personally created this layout, pretty much because I owned the machine for a year or so and loved it! I still to the day wish I still had it.. At least owning it gave me the chance to photo the reels and the machine. I used the reels and some one within the fruit machine emulation scene used to photos to make a DX.



If you want to have this machine running on your pc, ask me how to here of via my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/FruitVideos

Not that long ago I bought this machine from Advance Leisure on ebay. Cheap machine really for a £35 jackpot machine.

First impressions were, great machine, wow, loads going on etc. I still feel the same. There really is so much going on and so many ways to win some money on this machine.



There are alot of feature not worth the time and a handful that are worth keeping an eye out for! Blue features aren't that great,



But, the red feature had some great results!



you will see in the above clip there are a few hidden gems! My favorite had to be Big Chief 4. A true skill pick of the top 4 wins, including the BTQ streak! This is also ow I got my first £105 on this machine.

Other than that there are several other streak to be had.



Personally, with it being my machine I only go for the BTQ streak. Don't mind if its red or blue. Had £105s from each.

The machine does seem to have similar routes it likes to take. When starting on the feature, if you have a bonus get rid of it right away. Having add again is bad. If you go into the middle with it you'll then have taxi, which give you an advantage. The machine will bock the middle if you keep add again.

Once you have lost this hit start. Without the add again alot of the time it spins a 9, straight into the middle. Then from here it could go anywhere but I have noticed alot of the time the next move is an 8, straight to the bonus which is ironic as you now have your taxi! Right, from this point use your taxi right away and try to get the 3 super sots next to the bonus. Hold down cancl to slow things down. Retake the bonus if it keeps blocking the super shots. Once you have the super shots and have used them go lower than the 8. Crazy I know but it's wins 98/100 of the time! Once you have taken these then spin on. It's anyones guess from this point but with 4 shuper shots knocked out you stand a real good chance of the BTQ streak, well, more than before. Alot of the time it will boot you back on the outside. Just hope that you survive and land on the arrow back in to the bonus next to the super shots. Only gamble on 1+2+3 and 10+11+12 here. It will still kill you off sometimes but it's you best shot!

This machine does have an invincible mode aswell. Easy to see, the name at the top just keeps flashing away! See video!



Another nice thing is you can play multi stake. 10p for 1 line, 30p for 5 and 50p 5 lines and all numbers in view! The top streak can be had off the 10p stake which is nice to know! See video!



The excellent thing about owning the machine is the way you can force it. Just stick loads in and take nothing. Then play away a machine that is so happy you will find it very hard not to win! Check this clip out!



It does seem you can trap the machine. Setting up an active rewind, which can only be had from the ouside and taking it there and then getting yourself on the 2 super shots. Once you spinaway from the shots rewind back to them! You can rewind back from ? aswell.



Active rewind is great to have and use. The machine will try to boot you out of the middle but the machine can loop in a way which is quite funny! Having a good number to gamble on is the key. Any other lower number and it would have probably killed me!



A good machine for home use, not so great in the arcades and pubs. Play totally different at home. Board costs aren't too much etc. If I seeone and try for a board it's always too costly and it never offers me too much. Maybe if I can find some time to delve deeper into the machine I might perfect it. This is the plan. Nothing better than buying a machine for home use and working out exactly how to play it and go out and win some money!

There are plenty more videos of this on my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/FruitVideos, so have a search in the channel for them!

I have so many fond memories of this machine. A few years ago one of my local arcades had it in in 30p £25. It was such a good earner!.

The machine itself looked really good. The sounds are great and the gameplay was really fair, even if you didn't know what was going on. If you kept forcing out for the top it would eventually give naturally or via a red board. See video!



Most of the time though it was best to head towards 2 different features, super hold and seven stepper.

Super hold was great, not only could you snag jackpot and high wins like red seven but you could take it and reboard for a much better set up. You could reboard so many times in a row. If nothing was there, nudge in the feature enrty symbols and take super hold, hold them on the winline and hope something else is closer. en a £5er would be enough for me. There was nothing better though than snagging a jackpot. Sometimes it would even only be a couple of nudges away and considering super hold was the second feature up, easy as. See video!



Another thing to go for with super hold was the hidden features. Getting the red lines was easy via super hold. This would give you a chance at a true skill hit or a random one. The true skill was indeed true skill and the top feature could be had like this. See video!



The other feature to look out for was seven stepper. This is a great feature. £8 or £15 wins could be had very easily here. You had to know your reels but it's not as hard as you think.

Reel 1. The red 7 was above the blue 7 with the feature symbol on it. The other 7 on the reel was blue and it had a red box overlaid on it. The blue 7 with the feature symbol is above that.

Reel 2. Real easy one. The red 7 is above the jackpot symbol and the blue above that then all the way back round to the red one again.

Reel 3. Just like reel 2, the red 7 is above the jackpot symbol and another red one above that. Then the blue. As long as the blue 7 was below the winline you were safe there!



If you took it and messing it up then bad move, £2 and you were quite high up. To be fair there not that much worth taking above seven stepper. If you wasn't going for that you were all out for the top.

This machine also did swap holds. Swap holds were great if you got what it meant. Hold any 2 symbols once, then again and on the 3rd time if you got a matching symbol spin in you swapped over for the 3rd hold. Didn't really work with anything above £5. If the machine was in a state where it did you have done something seriously wrong!

Unfortunatley this machine is unemulated and not likely going to be within the distant future. A 'reel' shame as Global made some fantastic machines back then. Not many but there were a few gems!

All in all, a really good machine. When perfected pleany of profit to be had!



However, do bear in mind. On 5p/10p £5 jackpot. Don't bother. The board costs are way too high and the rips are harder to get. The gamble sucks on the £5 aswell.