Homers Meltdown Tips and Cheats
Wining Strategy
Payments mostly come from the feature games, however 3 holds in a row works well for cash amounts below $5.00. Holds after nudges works well on this machine when it’s in the mood, so keep nudging in those pairs, the maximum I’ve seen for this manuvre is $10. Moes Diner, has a number of slick features but my recommendation is to go for 3-2-1, this combination will give the Win Streak feature, normally about $5-$10.
Bar codes are available on this machine, but only on a 3BAR 2BAR 1BAR winline. The bad thing is that nudges cannot be cancelled, making it frustrating when a perfectly good barcode is nudged in and you still have one nudge left. D’oh!
Feature Strategy
There are Simpson’s characters on a lot of the reels so there is quite a good chance that holding 1 feature will bring up another two symbols. There are no known maps for the characters on the winline to the playability of the feature game. On the board there are only a few places where you can get killed, and unfortunately these are common landing spots. Watch out for the guy on the skateboard character, he’s instant death, and another mode of death is being fired. This game seems to play the credits down in a clever way when it’s being nasty. There’s a good
chance that if you loose straight away on the feature board, you will get 3 feature icons on the reels on the very next spin, this can happen 4 or 5 times in a row. Weird.
The best squares to land on are the corner squares, allowing a skill shot to place Homer where you want him on the board (normally within 8 squares of the corner). Try to pick up Nudges as a first choice, because the machine can bring in nudges from above and below, cool. The cash prizes tend to be low (under 4 dollars) unless it’s feeling friendly, when you’ve been knocked out of the board game and have come straight back in, try to train yourself to take the under $5 prizes. The sure sign of a winning streak is a lot of pay-day bonus’, these can add all of the remaining feature crawls up to the jackpot, on a lucky sequence.
Editors note: Homers Meltdown plays exactly the same as The Great Escape. It is paying out when you land on the skill shot squares. From these squares, hold cancel and land on the cash squares (+2 or +3) as this often lets you build up to a super jackpot, hardly ever repeats, nice sound FX though.
