Best Games for the GameMaker

[PinballWiz]

I finally got the monitor issue fixed on my GameMaker.  It still needs some minor adjustments, but the game is playable now.     Thanks to everyone here who offered help and advice.   

Now, the next topic.  I realize that this is mostly opinion based, but what games would you recommend?  I want a mix of slots and card games mostly.  The must haves are Jacks or Better Poker, Let It Ride, Pick 'Em Poker and BlackJack.  After that, I'm not sure.  There are so many choices, so I'm looking to see what others would recommend.  If you're suggesting a slot, keep in mind that my wife likes bonus rounds.  Flying pigs need not apply.

Rob

[tacman]

Well, since you have several of the card games in mind already, your choices are slots, keno and misc games:

First- the misc games like Win Pigs Fly, Magic Symbols, Quest for Gold, etc. are kind of boring (IMHO) so unless someone has those that you could check out before hand, I would stay away from them.

Second- Keno, well pretty much a group of numbers where you pick a set of numbers where the more you pick, the higher the jackpot the more you match. Several like Free Bee and Gold Mine have bonus games when wild symbols hit.

Third- Slots, they come in two flavors. Three reel and Five reel variety:

Five reelers like Prince of Persia and Goldmine have bonus screens forr picking your winnings, Balligator has a series of trophys for extra winnings and Silver & Gold has multipliers that boost payline winnings.

Three reelers like Blazing 7's,  Wild Rose & Stars & Bars are pretty much standard slots. Fireball has bonus symbols and Wizard of Oddz and Straght Eight have 8-9 paylines.

Some of the titles are dedicated games and even if they only use two of your "P" slots on the MPU that is the only game you can play. Also if you want to go that route if you don't have a double row bet deck you have to locate mains that will allow you to bypass that and use the touchscreen (you still lose some features) The dedicated games also utilized a deluxe sound card and individual sound eproms for each game, so unless your machine already has it. That would be an add on. Some of the dedicated games are listed below:

Cash Encounters
Boxcar Bonus
Hot, Hot, Hot
Platypus
Play the Market
Baby Boomers
Money Poppers

Hope this helps.

 Dan (tacman)

[ricker]

Excellent information Dan.

Being the month of ghosts and goblins, you can also Theme your Gamemaker with Triple Trouble Games. In Slots, Poker, and Keno, getting the 3 devils gives bonus rounds where payouts are tripled. Throw in Wizard of Odds and Soothsayer, and your Halloween gameplaying is complete.

Richard

[Randy0777]

Well, since you have several of the card games in mind already, your choices are slots, keno and misc games:

First- the misc games like Win Pigs Fly, Magic Symbols, Quest for Gold, etc. are kind of boring (IMHO) so unless someone has those that you could check out before hand, I would stay away from them.

Second- Keno, well pretty much a group of numbers where you pick a set of numbers where the more you pick, the higher the jackpot the more you match. Several like Free Bee and Gold Mine have bonus games when wild symbols hit.

Third- Slots, they come in two flavors. Three reel and Five reel variety:

Five reelers like Prince of Persia and Goldmine have bonus screens forr picking your winnings, Balligator has a series of trophys for extra winnings and Silver & Gold has multipliers that boost payline winnings.

Three reelers like Blazing 7's,  Wild Rose & Stars & Bars are pretty much standard slots. Fireball has bonus symbols and Wizard of Oddz and Straght Eight have 8-9 paylines.

Some of the titles are dedicated games and even if they only use two of your "P" slots on the MPU that is the only game you can play. Also if you want to go that route if you don't have a double row bet deck you have to locate mains that will allow you to bypass that and use the touchscreen (you still lose some features) The dedicated games also utilized a deluxe sound card and individual sound eproms for each game, so unless your machine already has it. That would be an add on. Some of the dedicated games are listed below:

Cash Encounters
Boxcar Bonus
Hot, Hot, Hot
Platypus
Play the Market
Baby Boomers
Money Poppers

Hope this helps.

 Dan (tacman)

Just what I was looking for Dan Picking one up Mon. and was not sure which chips to grab. I like the five wheel bonus ones,so now I have some to ask about
Get ready for some questions soon

[tacman]

Ask away when you are ready, I do not think you will be disappointed with the platform!

 Dan (tacman)

[Randy0777]

Just wondering  Are all the game chips the same size 1gig,512,etc? If not ,could I assume the larger the chip the more graphics it would have? If I pickup a spare board andload ten other games on it can I just switch boards without changing any of the settings. Do these come so you can select on screen the amount of the wager (5 cent,25 cent) ?

[StatFreak]

Just wondering  Are all the game chips the same size 1gig,512,etc? If not ,could I assume the larger the chip the more graphics it would have? If I pickup a spare board andload ten other games on it can I just switch boards without changing any of the settings. Do these come so you can select on screen the amount of the wager (5 cent,25 cent) ?

If you use multi-denom and/or tokenizable mains, then you set up the coin value and the available denominations when you do the initial full RAM clear and setup. This data is stored on the individual board and you don't need to do a clear when you switch boards. Therefore, the settings of each board should be the same as you left them when they are reinstalled.

The normal games use either 512kb or 1Mb chips, depending on the amount of graphics needed for a particular game. The dedicated games generally use 1Mb chips. The sound chips for the dedicated games (goes on a separate board as tacman indicated) are 8Mb.

Graphics chips are either 1Mb or 2Mb. The newer chips are usually larger, as are the chips for the dedicated games.
The Mains are 4Mb chips.

If you like the 5-reel games, I recommend Island Wins. It doesn't have a regular bonus feature where you make selections. Instead, it has a re-spin feature, but I've hit the re-spin bonus for over 16000 coins twice. The symbols are a bit confusing at first, but eventually you recognize a hit-in-process as the reels stop. I also like Goldmine Bonus slot. The average win in the bonus round (picking three gold nuggets) is 18 times your total bet, and is always a multiple of your total bet. I haven't tried the poker Goldmine, but it's probably a good game.

I'm not too fond of the Free Bee games. I've tried the Free Bee slot & Free Bee keno. They just don't seem to pay enough in the bonus to make it worth while. Triple Trouble Poker is one of my favorites, and I'm going to have to try the other Triple Trouble themes one of these days.

If you like stud poker, Pick-Em Poker is a good game. It also comes in multi-hand varieties.

[StatFreak]

I recently installed a new slot game, Z3600 - Blazing Triple Sevens, and wanted to share it with other GameMaker owners.

This game pays back a whopping 99.87% ! ! ! On a SLOT for cripes sake!  I've done nothing but win on it since installing it. I found this gem while searching through my Bally game list. I put it in blind after seeing the payback percentage and it turned out to be a 3-line, 3 coin game. At first I was a bit disappointed, as I usually prefer multipliers, but the line game is actually better because it's less volatile.

I love having it installed, because I can go to this slot to win back money that I lose on the other games. 

I can't believe that Bally actually produced this chip, and I certainly can't understand why any casino would have ever installed it. I usually play for $300 a spin. (It would have taken that amount of wagering for a casino to make any kind of money on it...)

One weird thing about it is that there are no spin sounds: only stop sounds.   I'm not sure why, since Bally spin music is generic to all of their slot themes and not to specific games (except special ones with sound chips). The other slot games that I have currently installed play the spin music as expected, so it's got nothing to do with my machine, and I don't think that I got a defective chip, since it works fine in every other way.

At any rate, it's amazing that Bally produced a slot theme with a hold of only 0.13%, and I recommend it to Gamemaker owners looking for a loose slot theme.

Stat

[knagl]

I also like Goldmine Bonus slot. The average win in the bonus round (picking three gold nuggets) is 18 times your total bet, and is always a multiple of your total bet. I haven't tried the poker Goldmine, but it's probably a good game.

I think I recall reading that the Goldmine poker game awards gold nugget pick(s) when you get a full house, which happens fairly frequently in video poker.

Another poker game that's fun, if you can find it, is Pay the Aces poker.  That game pays a bonus for dealt aces when no face cards appear on the deal.

[Randy0777]

I think I recall reading that the Goldmine poker game awards gold nugget pick(s) when you get a full house, which happens fairly frequently in video poker.
I have it one of mine and it dont happen that often  . It would rather give you four of a kind than the nuggets.

[RayV]

knagl
Is that Pattern Keno any good ?
How does it work ?

[knagl]

Is that Pattern Keno any good ?
How does it work ?

I'm afraid I don't know, sorry.  I took that picture with my camera phone at the Pioneer casino in Laughlin, NV -- I was just excited to see the Pay The Aces game, as the only other time I had seen it, it was on the IGT PE+ platform -- I was really surprised to see it in a Bally GameMaker as well.

Perhaps someone else here has played Pattern Keno and can explain how the game works?  If not, perhaps you can bribe Joey (the site owner) to go across the river from his shop to the Pioneer and try out the game. 

[StatFreak]

Funny that you should bring up Pattern Keno. It was next on my list of games to try. It might be a while before I do another game swap since I just did one, but I'll post back when I install it. I've also wanted to try the "Aces, No Faces" game, but I can't seem to find a copy of that one.  

[tacman]

Stat, I looked in all my documentation and can't find an "Aces No Faces" game, just "Aces & Faces" P0230. There are several elusive games out there, hopefully. Several that come to mind are Looney Darts, Roulette 00, and Face Up Blackjack. Some have said they were never produced for the Gamemaker, but they are listed with PARs in the Bally catalog, so who knows?

 Dan (tacman)

[StatFreak]

Aces & Faces is definitely more common, but No Faces is elusive. Roulette would be interesting to see as well.

[Buzz]

Is that Pattern Keno any good ?
How does it work ?

Perhaps someone else here has played Pattern Keno and can explain how the game works?  If not, perhaps you can bribe Joey (the site owner) to go across the river from his shop to the Pioneer and try out the game. 

Knagl  you don't know Joey very well, you can't even get him to go in a Casino to get something to eat. If Joey died tomorrow they would have to have the funeral at the shop because he wouldn't leave it long enough to be planted back into mother earth. jmo   

[knagl]

Stat, I looked in all my documentation and can't find an "Aces No Faces" game, just "Aces & Faces" P0230.

You found six of them last year.   

[tacman]

Oh, thats right. I forgot all about the MS. Gaming Commission list! 

 Dan (tacman)

[StatFreak]

Is that Pattern Keno any good ?
How does it work ?

Perhaps someone else here has played Pattern Keno and can explain how the game works?  If not, perhaps you can bribe Joey (the site owner) to go across the river from his shop to the Pioneer and try out the game. 

Knagl  you don't know Joey very well, you can't even get him to go in a Casino to get something to eat. If Joey died tomorrow they would have to have the funeral at the shop because he wouldn't leave it long enough to be planted back into mother earth. jmo   

 

Truer words have never been spoken.   

[Randy0777]

Need some suggestions ... I have three GM's running and looking for some games. The wife likes card games(I dont ) ,so one will be set for them and the other two will be reels  I like the way Island Wins locks the reels and does the spins. Also,I like any of the bonus rounds(not the genie type). Tried baby Boomers,but did not want to waste four spots  My question is what are some different card games and single chip reels? Also,I recall seeing a pool(billiards) reel game,but can not find it.

[StatFreak]

Have you tried GoldMine slot? The bonus is a screen where you pick three of five gold nuggets. Each pays an even multiplier of the total amount of your wager. The PAR indicates that the average win is 18x your bet. The symbols are easier to follow than many of the other games, i.e., they are less busy and don't seem to confuse my eyes as much, and the miner symbols really stand out as they lock down.

Goldmine slot and Island Wins are my two favorite single chip slot games so far.

You might try an eight liner like Wizard of Odds for a change of pace. Moo Money is okay, but I keep seeing the male bulls on the cards and thinking that they are the bonus bull. The Jack (if I recall correctly) is drawn from the same perspective as the bonus bull and is in the same round "window". It's just smaller. That p$sses me off. It does not have an interactive bonus, however.

I have not tried Baby Boomers. How did you like it (aside from the fact that it used four chip spots)?

[Randy0777]

I actually have all of the ones you mentioned above in one of the games,and Goldmine full house...which gives you the picks if you get a full house. Baby Boomers I played 3 spins on,did not know I need diff. graphic chips. The reels were there,but no credits,wins,menu,nothing but the reels . By the time I found out which G chips I needed , I allready pulled the game.

[jer3270]

hi,does anyone have any game maker games for sale? i have mostly card games on mine that were on it when i bought it, but do not have any slot games.would really like to find some games with bonus rounds! thank you.      and thanks for all the help you guys give! this site is awesome and well recommended thanks again