Alright! It worked! We doubled our 500 dollars and made another. Well done goons.

However, this is a pretty risky way of making money. It's a lot easier walking dogs.

Let's see what else is available. We'll try the Slot Machines





Now, in real life I have a serious aversion to slots, or pokies as they call them here. They are predatory and a waste of money. At the heart of it, you should never trust a computer based ‘game of chance’, because they are deliberately programmed only to give out cash at an expected interval.

However, I did notice a neat little detail about these particular slots. They have Turbo Go-Go branding!

Don't remember Turbo Go-Go? It was one of the arcade mini games available in the first Zero4 Champ!





Man, they really improved the art in this one, huh?

So there's a total of 9 machines here, with $1, $5 and $10 variants. As I can tell they’re all the same.





Standard pokie rules apply where you need to get three pictures in a row. The more money you put in, the more ‘medals’ you will receive, and these unlock the ability to win if you get three in a row at the top and bottom or on a diagonal.

You hit the start button on the machine to get the three ‘drums’ spinning, and can you can stop each drum manually by the button in-front of them. Stop three in a row, and hope to make a pattern.

So!

Bet.

Spin.

Stop.

Lose.


Okay, let's try again.

Bet.

Spin.

Stop.

Lose.


…You get the idea.


Interestingly we're playing in 2025 with a little thing called an emulator that has all sorts of tricks. Like the ability to save and load states and slow down time.

So, continually reloading the same ‘spin’ point in time, I slow down time enough to where I can stop the drums exactly where I need them to be.

However - It will never allow me to stop the third one where I expect it to be. It will always skip past it, as if my reaction times were too slow.

AKA it is completely fucking rigged. Just like real slot machines.

So… we're not going to use these much anymore, unless I can figure out whether an item affects the outcome or something…. Or if one of these is a lucky machine…

Perhaps that Golden Cairo that the witch sold us some sort of cursed object?