This is a post I wrote on Good Times a couple of years ago. Give me a casino with about a dozen of these machines scattered around the casino floor....and no competition from other hustlers....and the machines get enough action where I can get in 15 or 20 plays a day....well, I'm gonna knock that casino for $10,000+ a month.
In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@> wrote:
The machine you speak of was called Good Times. It was part of the second wave of the IGT Vision Series. It was IGT's ripoff version
of the Williams machine called X FACTOR. The multiplier advanced
when the reels caught all blanks--and maxed out at 12X. I played them at 8X or higher. Good Times was a bankroll play. If you could float the money swings they were highly profitable. The trick was to run volume, 30 or forty plays a week. The big hits would come in.
It looks like some of these machines are still around. On the top screen of a Good Times you will see this:
12X / 144X
10X / 100X
8X / 64X
7X / 49X
6X / 36X
5X / 25X
4X / 16X
3X / 9X
2X / 4X
The multiplier generally starts on 2X or 3X. Good Times is a three reel slot machine. The symbols are Single Bars, Double Bars, Triple Bars, Purple Sevens, Red Sevens (my memory is faulty on the sevens, I can't remember if there were three different colored sevens or just two) and the main symbol is Good Times. And I can't remember what the payscale is.
If the reels catch all blanks the multiplier will advance to the next level. I can't remember what the frequency is but the multiplier will keep going up unti a hit is made or it maxes out at 12X.
When you catch Good Times-Single Bar-Single Bar you will get paid according to where the multiplier is. If it is on 5X / 25X, you will get paid five times what single bars normally pay. The multiplier will then reset weighted randomly. It usually comes back on 2 or 3 but will occasionally reset higher, even up to 12X.
When you catch Good Times-Good Times-Single Bar you will get paid according to where the multiplier is. If it is on 5X / 25X you will get paid 25X what the single bars normally pay. And the multiplier will reset. It works the same way for the other symbols.
I started playing Good Times because of a conversation I had with a hustler friend of mine that we all called Peg-Leg Rich. He was lamentiing the fact that he had promised a friend of his he would stay out of Bally's. When I asked what his friend was doing, Rich said he was playing the Good Times. Rich also let go of another piece of information, his buddy had run his bankroll from $5,000 to $20,000 playing the game. This goes back to the early 2000's. There were lots of Good Times in Bally's in quarter, fifty cent, and dollars.
I had huge success on Good Times. I tracked my play. I played at 8X or higher. I was at breakeven up through Good Times-Good Times-Single Bar. The Good Times-Good Times-Double Bar and higher hits were all gravy.
Here's some more hints. Good Times comes in the two coin version and the three coin version. Stay away from the three coin version. When you make the hit always make one more spin. It may come back on a good multiplier, and you never leave a hit in the window that might give a tourist a clue.
