Go For Gold

Go For GoldSome indulgence in personal reminiscence here, if you’ll allow. I remember back to my junior year of university, a summer semester spent at the University of Essex. England, a whole other country, it was. Whoa. And decadent, too. Such memories of general merriment and consumption. Those were days of World Cup 1990 and England’s fourth-place finish in said football contest; of Roger Waters playing The Wall live in Berlin; of low-potency speed as party drug; and of the pound stronger against the dollar than it is even today. I got married that summer to a woman i barely knew, but that’s a whole other story. But no matter how you detail it in time, England is always about pub culture. Drinking heavy, fresh beer and chasing it with pub grub; at the university pub – A university pub! What a concept for a college-boy American? – it was pasties. There in every pub, of course, was a slot machine. Usually taking pound coins. Oh, as they say, boy! 

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Go For Gold takes me back to those days, as it will for anyone into the whole bloody pub thang, a 3-reeler loosely based on the Olympics – no matter, it’s only the WILDs that are changing to Olympic theme. I remember tossing any number of coins into the non-virtual versions of these, addictively watching the pleasantly quick reels go plunk-plunk-plunk into place, most of the time nothing happening. Then LCD spun a pair of WILDs and a triple bar, bagging $320 on a $1 bet and in Pavlovian response offered three-year-old Zsuzsanna a pint; the happy memories washed over me again and again. A tinge of sadness, too, ‘cause if i’d hit that in the UK back in ’92, it’ve been worth $640 at the outrageous right-about 2:1 rate that summer.  

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While LCD takes a few token minus points for no NUDGE button, software developer Vegas Technology was this close to the real thing.
Thanks for the flashbacks. LCD rating: 8.5/10 (or $17/20, based on 1992 exchange rates).