BALLYS BIG TOP CIRCUS
I had almost forgotten about this game until I was watching the Ballys home channel in Atlantic City the other day.I have to check if Caesars is still running that Howie Mandel show, the one where he learns or teaches you to play all the casino games. If anyone remembers this game, I just wonder who designed, ordered and was responsible for the purchase of these machines. I do recall an enormous amount of these machines in Caesars, The Hilton, and Ballys when they first came out. Someone was having high expectations, or maybe some CEO got caught cheating on his wife and let her design a machine. Well, this ranks as probably the absolute worst video slot machine I have ever played. The game was, I think the basic 9 line 5 coin version of the nickel slots. The game played excruciatingly S_L_O_W! I remember the game was a circus style event with the usual characters, the big top and monkeys. I love watching monkeys on TV, at the Zoo in person, but on this slot machine the monkey moved like he was on tranquilizers. I don't know what the deal was, but some spins he would come out and replace another symbol, I think he had to eat bananas in the bonus round, I recall he had to jump across the screen or something, but all I can say it was so boring. The game was so different in that this was at a time where reels where spinning faster and faster, games were filled with cool bonus rounds, extra spin rounds were being introduced, and along comes this. Barnum and Bailey must have been rolling over in their graves. I could not even read through the help screen on the game as I feel asleep trying to figure out how the game worked. It was amazing these machines were ordered in the amount they had, I recall at least one whole row in the Hilton, and long 2 rows in Caesars. The games are long gone and are not missed. I couldn't even give this one a single peanut!