--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "pyiddy" <pyiddy@...> wrote:
>
> A few years ago, Konami had a video poker game called Time Bomb video poker.
> The base game was DDB. If you were dealt a flush (SF or RF also count.), the
> next 5-20 hands (random with an average of 10) doubled the value of all
> quads and the SF. The RF started at 3x + a 0.25% feed rate progressive. This
> was analyzed by Bob Dancer in Strictly Slots. I never saw it in a casino.
> Video Poker was basically a Bally product but when Si Redd left that
> company, he asked for and got the rights to make video poker games. Si Redd
> started IGT and the rest is history. (My mom actually knew Si Redd because
> she worked for Bally's Aladdins Castle in the same complex during that
> period.)
>
Thanks. I had wondered to myself before asking the question if there was some kind of lock on it. But I can't see how it would work. Sure, they could lock up a game name like "Double Double Bonus" but why couldn't someone else produce the same pay table and called it "x-y-z bonus"? There are so many possible pay table variations anyway.
I know I have asked about Aristocrat in the past and we even discussed on here a game that was at my local Indian casino (which they have since removed). (and I can't remember the name right now). It's just odd that there are all these slots out there and only IGT and Bally have a piece of the pie.
By the way, I'd love to get a look at that "Time Bomb" game you described.
