Classic/Vintage Fruit Machines

Yeh know what ya mean adam but to be honest most people who go in either locals or now and agains like me, (to far away) we know the score how most the fruits work, from back and the day, numbering, streakers, so i know what to expect from certain fruites in there, the roller coaster like you say if not numbering, people dont play, i would still play it anyway, it never used to go completly dead anyway, still plenty log flumes, tin can alleys kicking about.

But yep certain ones can sometimes be on there arse, you can normally tell if dead with in a few quid, its all about fun and nostalgia in there for me anyway, if i want to try and win i will go to nobles/casino whatever, but with considerbly less entertaining and resulting in much lighter pockets.

The alladins cave has certanly been there at some point, never when ive been there, me to would like a go of this, must be 15 plus year since ive played one, same has maygay screenplay not played it for many a moons, bit of duck shoot anyone.
 
That pitcure of labrynth, vinyl, not to bad remake of the original, they have this, pyramid, and spinx, in reelfruits, really good gameplay 2 are on 20p 6 quid.
Think in terms of 'Alladins cave' john was referring to the actual arcade been an alladins cave, not the actual machine;),
either way a machine i would certanly like to play again, has been said like a slower roller coaster would best explain the fruit.
 
Yes Dave is a top bloke, knows hes machines for sure, and has absolutley 100s and 100s plus stored, manages to find rare fruits i avent seen for years, i have been to real fruits over 5 times and never been seriously burnt, but know what your saying Adam, where was this arcade at, 8 roller coasters thats mad, if only arcades were like that now, instead of 8 poor 500/novomatic 100 quid rainbow riches types.
Remember the casino crazy in reel fruits, the 20p tube was empty, all the 20ps were going to cashbox instead, mentioned it to Dave, i wasnt botherd about missing a few quid, just letting him know it was broke, he handed me a massive handful of 20ps must of been over a tenners worth.
 
Yes was here a few weeks back Shaws amusements, temple of treasure, 5p frenzy why you would want it on this stake is anyones guess, 10p is bad enough, 20p/25p/30p all the way great fruit on this stake, was also a 10p reel money clone of jpm casino 5 liner.

I know what you mean as well with andys great escape, not to long ago the original was sat to next to it, infact bridlington wasnt to bad not to long ago, little arcade at the end had a crystalmaze, a rare empire bars and stripes, psycho beast, duff beer guide, a strange cabinet each way nudger, and a canny few more, but i suppose you could say every where was better few years ago, unfortuantely most classics have slowly gone.

Planning a trip soon back down to Maidstone, reel fruits arcade, 140 classic fruits, i could spend days there.

Yeah, I remember the Andy Capp being there in the forum. They have 14 different assorted partytimes in there lol.
Also there were two 5p lucky strikes on a fiver but they went but still have 2 five liner things.
Was gutted when the Crystal Maze went from next door arcade last year.
Also another two Andy Capps vanished from Brid last year
 
Yes them five liner things were the same one i was on about in shaws amusements, also remember the lucky strike, big arcade that forum, was in the area few weeks back camping, did a bit of classic searching, but didnt find anything exciting.
yes the crystal maze, although it was the 5 quid rebuild, not a patch on the original 20p version, had quite a few machines for sale last time i was there, big orange stickers on the front, think duff beer quide was 100 quid, be quite an entertaining machine to have that.
 
Yes them five liner things were the same one i was on about in shaws amusements, also remember the lucky strike, big arcade that forum, was in the area few weeks back camping, did a bit of classic searching, but didnt find anything exciting.
yes the crystal maze, although it was the 5 quid rebuild, not a patch on the original 20p version, had quite a few machines for sale last time i was there, big orange stickers on the front, think duff beer quide was 100 quid, be quite an entertaining machine to have that.

Has to be for all the partytimes and bullion bars :laugh:

Always gets the people in though, even when the town is quiet, was pretty packed on Boxing Day in there.

That arcade next door (Wilsons) was even open Christmas Day, i asked why as i was surprised, and bloke said he only lived upstairs and they did quite well on Christmas Day, I left 30 odd quid up.
It might be getting knocked down for a Travelodge, so more orange stickers may be appearing.

Would love to go down Reelfruits one day, bloody far though
 
That pitcure of labrynth, vinyl, not to bad remake of the original, they have this, pyramid, and spinx, in reelfruits, really good gameplay 2 are on 20p 6 quid.
Think in terms of 'Alladins cave' john was referring to the actual arcade been an alladins cave, not the actual machine;),
either way a machine i would certanly like to play again, has been said like a slower roller coaster would best explain the fruit.


Spot on, I was lol

I considered myself a very knowledgeable fruit machine player back in the day but this 'numbering' on Roller Coaster has me stumped, what's all that about lol :confused:

As for Maygay's 'Screen Play' my strength was in 'Find the Knight' could take to to the £2.40/£3.00 Repeater every time and it usually offered this exchange from the £1 Cherries win too! :)
 
Well, I ended up getting a cheap 'Heaven or Hell' BWB machine a few days back. It has a problem with the hopper as that constantly spins when machine turned on, but only paid a tenner for the it so should be good fun trying to fix it!

Still keeping an eye of what Dave @ Reelfruits is selling on ebay (user ID of tentendoitagain) as definitely want a classic. Will also plan a trip down there soon as eager to play the machines he has.

Also, does anyone remember the old Dr Who fruity which gave prizes (normally a watch)? Think it was a Davros Prize. I last played it around 22 years back and no luck on Google searches to find it. The prizes were normally displayed on top of machine.

And thank you for reminding me about the Roller Coaster fruity - another one I had forgotten about despite spending a fair few quid on it back in the day! Oh these memories .....
 
^^ That is the Dr Who Machine I recall also^^

There were several which had the additional 'physical' prizes you could win.

2 I recall are JPM's 'Fairground' and the other was the follow up to Barcrest's 'Viva Las Vegas' (can't recall exact name but same layout/feature board as VLV)

There was a extra 'chute' where these prizes came out the machine in a white cardboard box, about the size of a packet of 20 fags.

We gathered up few watches and other prizes from our local arcade and pubs around the town and used to sell em for a £5er a pop in our local boozer.
 
^^ That is the Dr Who Machine I recall also^^

There were several which had the additional 'physical' prizes you could win.

2 I recall are JPM's 'Fairground' and the other was the follow up to Barcrest's 'Viva Las Vegas' (can't recall exact name but same layout/feature board as VLV)

There was a extra 'chute' where these prizes came out the machine in a white cardboard box, about the size of a packet of 20 fags.

We gathered up few watches and other prizes from our local arcade and pubs around the town and used to sell em for a £5er a pop in our local boozer.

Monte Carlo or bust was the prize one.
I also saw the BWB Monte Carlo or bust video one with prizes in a pub in Halifax in the 90's.
Better prizes in it than the arcade ones.
Multipack of video tapes and a remote control car were 2 I recall.
I also remember a prize Eastenders and a Super Streak
 
Monte Carlo or bust was the prize one.
I also saw the BWB Monte Carlo or bust video one with prizes in a pub in Halifax in the 90's.
Better prizes in it than the arcade ones.
Multipack of video tapes and a remote control car were 2 I recall.
I also remember a prize Eastenders and a Super Streak

Ah cheers mate, thought it might have been but doubted myself due to the other one you mention.

The BWB (video Screen) one was by far the best, I could empty those of a couple of quid, let em refill and do it over and over again.

Mad a fortune before the re-chips started to appear and Playland Amusements in Wolverhampton had 2 side by side which they NEVER re-chipped :confused::confused: Could go up town virtually skint everyday and come back with well over £100, paid better than my job at the time :eek:
 
Remember the prizes! Some offered prize or £6 token jackpot!
I played electrocoins dr do plays simlair to labyrinth, pryamid and Sphinx
I must make a weekend visit to reel fruits and mr p!
Really want a good session on these lovely project coins!
 
Remember the prizes! Some offered prize or £6 token jackpot!
I played electrocoins dr do plays simlair to labyrinth, pryamid and Sphinx
I must make a weekend visit to reel fruits and mr p!
Really want a good session on these lovely project coins!

I only ever saw that once in an arcade in Leeds.
The music used to do my head in when you span the reels.
 
I had a sphinx set on 10p play £8 jackpot, was popular and I still miss it to this day! Awesome game play and sounds !
 
I really, REALLY want a Barcrest Up'N'Over or 'Lotta Luck' has to be original (un-chipped) ROMS £15 JP.

Failing that a BFM 'Hi-Point' (the one with the silver and gold bells £2.40/£4.80JP)

Sunset Boulevard by Barcrest would be a 3rd Option (again £2.40/£4.80) or Project Coins 'Jackpot 7's/ 777 heaven)

No luck on e-bay or the net in general but if anyone has any pointers I'd be forever grateful......
 
Sunset bouvelard 20p play £4.80 token on u tube!
My all time faves is bfm surprise surprize and ace coin grand national!
 
Them electrocoins are/were great machines for playability spend at least an hour on them at reelfruits.

In terms of dr who there is or was one in reel fruits 20p 8 cash had one in mrps gravesend before it closed as well, nice machine could streak over 80 if caught rite.

played fruities over 20 year and not had 1 emptier, just 1 would be nice, picked up bits and pieces along the way but nothing major.

In terms of roller coaster and quite a few jpms/ace machines, basically when jackpot ready it would start spinning in 1s and 12s quite constantly so a decent streak/big feature wouldn't be to far of, players would try a few quid and if no 1s and 12s they would move on, like I mentioned I would still give it a go especially roller coaster has it wouldn't go completely dead, still give lower down features.

Another example (wish I knew back in the day). Was Jpm red arrow shot a quid in and switch to 10p play, if the red arrow appeard quite a bit then it was jackers ready and worth a punt, if it was just blue ones, it was pretty dead, interesting bit of programming really, wonder what made them put it in the program.
 
Was a little trick with them heaven and hell/ super league/championship soccer machines Richy, simply had 10p and if the footballs e.t.c were red it was ready or not far of jackpot/ . Was only for the the 25p/30p 15 quid version I think yours probably chipped, when streaking or streak due after jackpot, the hold sounds would change to make a booooiiionnngggg sound , strange how you remember this stuff.

Think I've mentioned on reel fruits forum before, about grand national, only ever fruity I've owned, bought it for a tenner years and years ago, 20p 6 quid token was a nice streaker.
 
played fruities over 20 year and not had 1 emptier, just 1 would be nice, picked up bits and pieces along the way but nothing major.

Man, I feel for you then missed out on some right beauties :(

I was lucky enough to have at least 7-8 emptiers, maybe more (or at least Good 'Bashers'). Can even remember how to do them if I had a time machine lol.

Total Emptiers

777 heaven (Project)
Jackpot 7's
Reno Reels (BWB)
Monte Carlo or Bust
Hi Flyer / Open the Box / Camelot (Ace Coin)
Lotta Luck (Barcrest)
The Jackpoteers
Thunderbirds (easiest out the lot!!!!)

Force Streak / Guaranteed profit

The Great Escape (Maygay)
The Italian Job
Code Name
Up n Over (virtual empty but never quite fully :p) (Barcrest)
Psycho Cash Beast / Frenzy
Fireball (JPM)

Few others but these were just off top of my head at time of posting.

The one which could have been very profitable was one of the first £500 JP's to come out in Barcrest's 'Cashino' - Could tell from about £20-£30 how far off the JP was and whether to 'chase' it. This was done via the roulette feature but they soon re-chipped before long, managed 2 JP's with this trick.
 
I've always wonderd how people got hold of some emptiers, has some would be impossible to find out, some people over years just worked stuff out their selves, or a case of been well in with a fruit engineer, quite aperently emptiers were some times put in on purpose, then sold on to players for a decent wedge, then I guess it was up to the player to keep info under wraps, until greed took over, and either sold info on or kept IOUing the machine causing a rechip.
Either way Jon sounds like you made some decent cash back in the day, must of been a good feeling of beaten the machine, not illegal of own skill or knwoledge, not jealous 1 bit
 
Just going back to the machines with prizes, I know the Monte Carlo in reelfruits has this you can either take 6 quid tokens or choose prize, think a little case comes down and you take it to the cash desk, for an exchange for a five pound note, prizes back in the day were pretty gash, did get a nice silver lighter once though.

I'm sure I've seen a prize winner takes all, bullseye and possibly circus back in the day.
 
A few years back, Nobles in Brid had a £25 Jackpot 777 Heaven.
It wasnt one with those different coloured 7's, it was like the original.
Couldnt play it though as only saw it before i was leaving and next time i went, it wasnt there.

Also remember a few 2p play £2.40 Jackpot Sunset Boulevards knocking about, for a 2p machine they had good gameplay, had loads of £2.40's out of them thanks to the nudge feature which you could exchange the blue bar win for.

Sadly the arcades are just clones of each other nowadays, especially ones on the coast.
Partytimes, Bullion Bars, Bar X, Golden Games, 5p/10p Crazy Fruits and the 777 Barcrest video cabs all with the same games on.
There are new (classic) versions out of Partytime and Bullion Bars out now with flimsy looking cabs.

And in Scarborough nearly every arcade had that anniversary Line Up in, which didnt bother me cos i love it.

A few years ago, you could find a few 2p machines at the coast and some of them were ok for killing a bit of time.
You dont see them now.
 

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