Most of the bonus slots have been altered in their new generations
to prevent the kind of ugliness that happened when players would
hover near and try to intimidate people who had played long enough
to drive up the value of a bonus without hitting it. The vultures
would then swoop in and play minimum coins to hit the bonus. Many
of these machines turned into a positive play at the right levels.
Search the archives for our discussion of Piggy Bankin' slots, which
I think were the original. The newer ones, called Piggy Bankin' Big
Bang, do accumulate coin bonuses that you can see on a display above
the reels, but also have another bonus round built in which is
usually more valuable than what's in the Piggy Bank. The same with
Wild Cherry Pie which awards a bonus when you fill the pie with
cherries. Before you play, you can see how many cherries you need
to fill the pies (by having the WCP symbol stop on one of the 9
visible stops), but the bonus is "from 25 to 200 credits" plus
what's in the basket when you finally hit it. It's harder to tell
when these are a positive play since the bonus is chosen at random.
And I think the basket empties after a few minutes of the machine
sitting idle. (I don't know this for sure, but there never seems to
be any additional cherries in the basket on an idle machine, even if
the pie is almost full.)
Having said that, I do like to play WCP because it is fun when you
finally get that last cherry in the pie, even if it takes forever.
Other bonus games include Racing 7's and Diamond Mine.
Drew
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bornloser1537" <bornloser1537@y...>
wrote:
I have become (I think) subliminally aware of "slots" that may be
"simply fun", when one is seeking some harmless, mindless
diversion, after hours of blood, sweat, and tears at the VP machines.
What I am referring to are what I assume to be various "slot
machines" that
have better times to play them, because of some "accummulating
event", that
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one can monitor just by walking by and just looking at the screen.