The Simpsons Fruitmachine (Fruit Machines)

Member Name: RupertS

Product:	Fruit Machines
Date:	02/05/01 (524 review reads)
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Advantages: Knowledge is power..

Disadvantages: The machine is there to make money from you!

I was playing this for sometime one Sunday and found a couple of features;

When starting the main feature, if Moe shouts "Hey, what are you guys doing over there?" then this is a definite super jackpot repeater. By continually rolling the dice, you will hit every +Bart square and count his trail all the way to the top. The only non-Bart square you can hit is the skateboard, which is a kind of skill-stop. This can be slowed down by holding cancel. - You can also see this if the Simpsons Logo is Red, it's normally yellow.

The machine supports the barcode function, that is to say Reel 1 Reel 2 Reel 3
Triple Bar (Red) Double Bar (Blue) Single Bar (Yellow)

Gives a hidden feature which is dependant upon the order in which you press the hold buttons. I only got this feature once, and I cannot remember the order in which I hit the buttons, but I got a follow me for 5 bonus game. (You have to press the Bart, Lisa and Marge buttons in the sequence that the game does or press the hold buttons.

The centre reel has a MOE'S TAVERN symbol. Iit functions in the same way as the ESCAPE COMMITTEE. I.E. press the three hold buttons in a specific order to activate a feature.

Mr Burns
When playing the feature game, the Mr. Burns icon is the equivalent of a ? icon in most games.

Fired - GAME OVER!
Doh - One or more trails are reset to zero.
Payday = A random number of icons are added to various trails and to the Itchy & Scratchy board.
Hi/Lo Gamble - Get it correct on a 1-12 reel and you get to carry on else, GAME OVER!
A word of warning, I only managed to win the Hi/Lo Gamble once out of about fifty times. Even though the machine was desperate to give money away when I arrived at it, (rolling in features of it's own accord three times out of five plays, rolling in reel wins etc...) the Hi/Lo gamble will give you a twelve if you go lower on eleven and a one if you go higher on a
two! I only managed to win because I had a twelve on the reel!

If you land on th skateboard you can use cancel to slow you down. If you land on the '?' mark for a nice bonus (only when on the skateboard), the only exception to this is if you have an extra life, as you might lose it.

And Finally
As for the Lisa Trail, I only ever took one feature and I can't remember the name of it! I stopped on a number of shots (1-8 I think), and then progressed along the Bart Trail trying to stop each one in turn whilst it was lit. I got four shots, and managed to get round to 3.

There is a feature on the game, (under Mr Burns? I'm not certain), that gives you a 'skill' stop on the Bart Trail. Although the jackpot stays lit for ages, even pressing it then, it still dropped to 5 before registering my button press (no surprise there though I suppose.)

Anyway, that's about all I can remember for now. I'll update with anymore as I learn it.

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