Hmm, for the first time with the vids, I am going to have to strongly disagree with you here, Hearthly. How you can say that dross from BWB like Cup Final is supposedly some kind of minor classic is beyond me, especially when you yourself uncover many of the reasons when this is patently not the case in your own video!
I mean, seriously - this harks from the very early 90s £4.80 era, almost universally recognised as being an absolute fruity golden age, but people are thinking of classic skill-based Scorp 1 Bell Fruits like Double Chance, great Maygays like EastEnders, Corrie, super low- and mid-techs from Project (and, yes, the Band Aid ACEs if they were yer bag). It's an embarrassment of riches, but I'm afraid BWB (and parent Barcrest for that matter) were out in the cold. This just wasn't a good time for them at all; their clonky "Money Maker" early MPU4 offerings were simply awful (remember that 4-reel AWP Blackjack thing? Four reels on a £4.80JP?)
As even you yourself say in your piece, the feature board isn't well thought out at all; no nudges (and therefore no way to use the Band Aid in the feature.... wow great idea that), totally progressive i.e. absolutely nothing worth taking up to the last few squares, no actual feature games *at all* (e.g. fruit roulette, cashfalls, win series etc.), it's as dull as fucking dishwater, and as you found out, despite being £50 ahead of percentage whereupon it should be gagging to pay, that final "Incident" square was/is an absolute piss-taking bastard.
The Band Aid has simply been stapled on, it having absolutely nothing to do with the feature itself (the focus of the whole game), and unless rolling straight in, almost never in paltry open play nudge range. Play It Again Sam this ain't.
Just to add final insult to injury, the Hi/Lo was a nasty, cheating twat (again as you note), and the profile was boringly flat. Never saw one do anything like a decent streak (despite worse than average dead patches), or go mental on the repeater. In short, there was absolutely no reason I can see to have played one of these, especially when almost every other machine from that era was vastly better, most notably the skill/Winning Streak BFMs which were an absolute delight.
It's all a matter of opinion of course (
), but I think you might be falling into the nostalgia trap here. I won't deny that even this looks like a masterpiece in amusement and entertainment in comparison to today's nasty £100 machines but then *anything* does. I must say it just doesn't do it for me.
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