My online slots videos (plus UK AWPs)

[ChopleyIOM]

I never knew any of the "cheats" existed on the old ACE machines - many a cigarette smoke-infused spanking was had in the arcades of Sheffield, back in the day...

Unfortunately yes, one of the most fuckable families of machines ever. Like you, I had no idea back in the day, the drubbings I had handed to me by those things....

ACE were so bad for this stuff that one of their coders was actually sent to prison for deliberately coding shit into his machines, selling the details to a select few, and also doing the machines himself with the bent shit he'd coded into them!

We've talked about it over at Desert Island Fruits at some length, and those who know a bit about coding (we can get into the code pretty well using the emulator and its debugger features, as well as decompiling the ROMS) are left with no doubt whatsoever that most of the nonsense on ACE machines was purposely coded in for the purposes of corruption, rather than oversights or mistakes.

 

[Jono777]

Video jogged a memory, well I think it did!

Most ACE machines had 2 streaks, tokens and cash. Once ready it would do, lets say the token streak, Once it had taken enough back after streak, next time it would be the cash streak and so on.

Quicksilver in Queen Street Wolverhampton had Play it Again for ages, reasonably often saw some of the "addicts" feed a complete token streak back in, plus a good portion of their benefits on top in an attempt to trigger the cash streak.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Ace Emptiers were my first ever exploit and what a beauty it was. Not Play it Again but the later machines with the 'free' lines wins.

Downside was so many jammed token mechs, a lot of scrutiny from fellow pub go-ers and "Mug punters" and drinking and smoking away most of our profits.

We committed so many hours and drove here there and everywhere doing these, at one point, I had about 12 pint glasses on my window sill full to the top with £1 coins, along with bags of tokens which I made mental notes where they could be used. In the end could empty cash tubes without needing money, just the tokens we'd accrued.

If I'd been older and wiser and more restrained at the time, could have got rich from these as they were literally everywhere.

Even most pubs to start with were 'happy' to pay out a £50 IOU lol.

The money I could have made back in the early 90s if I'd have had just had a few of the cheats and methods that prevailed at the time. Back in those days, as I'm sure UK folks of the same vintage as me will remember ( ), there were pubs absolutely everywhere, open all day, and all of them having one, or two, or three fruit machines (sometimes more!). Plus the machines got a lot of casual play back then, so they were getting money through them all the time, meaning a clued-up player would have been able to visit them regularly.

I do slightly wonder if a younger version of me would have just spunked all the money away anyway on all sorts of hedonistic nonsense, but it still would have been better than being a permanently skint addict!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

On this day last year my dad was in a medically induced coma, slowly deteriorating towards his eventual death on the 27th.

Some thoughts about the process of grief, and also a series I'll make about possibly the worst year of my fruit machine addiction, 1994, with reference to my diary from that year, which I still have.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Out at the pub with a couple of mates enjoying some responsible gambling. When the fun stops, stop! And all that.

I haven't made a single deposit at any online casino in 2024, so I'll allow myself a bit of a punt at the pub from time to time.