Classic/Vintage Fruit Machines

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Jd666]

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

 

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Jd666]

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

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

 

[Jono777]

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

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!

 

[RichyJ75]

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 .....

 

[bluebirdy]

Only dr who one i can remember is this the one you was thinking about?.
i play it now and then on the emulator.

 

[Jono777]

^^ 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.

 

[Jd666]

^^ 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

 

[Jono777]

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 Could go up town virtually skint everyday and come back with well over £100, paid better than my job at the time

 

[Mabby2000]

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!

 

[Jd666]

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.

 

[Mabby2000]

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 !

 

[Jono777]

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......

 

[Mabby2000]

Sunset bouvelard 20p play £4.80 token on u tube!
My all time faves is bfm surprise surprize and ace coin grand national!

 

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Jono777]

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 ) (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.

 

[Yorkstar]

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

 

[Yorkstar]

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.

 

[Jd666]

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.

 

[Jd666]

Not vintage but oh dear god

 

[Jono777]

Batman Begins AKA Bullion Bars.

Astra have no originality, when will they drop that Black and yellow bar format and those repetitive red stars which I think are on almost every machine they manufacture!

Bet the extra nudges 'trick' doesn't work on the £100 JP version

 

[Jd666]

Batman Begins AKA Bullion Bars.

Astra have no originality, when will they drop that Black and yellow bar format and those repetitive red stars which I think are on almost every machine they manufacture!

Bet the extra nudges 'trick' doesn't work on the £100 JP version

It probably will Jon, as it works on the £100 Partytime.
But for a quid a spin and to get 2 quid for the stars, aint worth playing on a quid.

A woman was playing a Partytime on a quid spin on the same 3 player unit as me, where i was playing 30p, and it wasnt half eating her money.
Seemed to go up more often for her but she was only getting about 20 quid at a time. Paid £5, £10 and £100 up top.

 

[shadow123]

uniongames

anyone play the uniongames/maygay bingo machines,they are my little claim to fame we did the first successful £25 30p lo tech- pure madness.the maygay version was 25 carrot gold which gala took in big numbers. best machine was maygays ozzie ozzie ozzie which bell fruit copied and fucked up.being an ex fruity player i always tried to make sure that
the machines were fair to the player,they were always on a decent percentage and a little patience would always streak.
The machines nowdays are no fun even with all the bells and whistles,same story every time shove a ton in before you realise, you are hooked and if lucky you might get half back.

 

[Jd666]

anyone play the uniongames/maygay bingo machines,they are my little claim to fame we did the first successful £25 30p lo tech- pure madness.the maygay version was 25 carrot gold which gala took in big numbers. best machine was maygays ozzie ozzie ozzie which bell fruit copied and fucked up.being an ex fruity player i always tried to make sure that
the machines were fair to the player,they were always on a decent percentage and a little patience would always streak.
The machines nowdays are no fun even with all the bells and whistles,same story every time shove a ton in before you realise, you are hooked and if lucky you might get half back.

You worked for the Industry?

I remember pure madness.
I remember another where you could pick red, green or yellow game.
I didnt get what that was all about

 

[petro]

I found this video hilarious. The "arcade" owner reminds me of an online casino manager complaining about bonus abusers.

 

[shadow123]

You worked for the Industry?

I remember pure madness.
I remember another where you could pick red, green or yellow game.
I didnt get what that was all about

i was half of uniongames and programmed all fruits about 20 in all.the red green and yellow game idea was
3 separate pure madnesses in one machine,each with its own percentage controller and pot. no-one really got the idea but it was a brilliant machine for sharking if you did as
one one game was usually reading for streaking if you knew the signs.

 

[Jd666]

i was half of uniongames and programmed all fruits about 20 in all.the red green and yellow game idea was
3 separate pure madnesses in one machine,each with its own percentage controller and pot. no-one really got the idea but it was a brilliant machine for sharking if you did as
one one game was usually reading for streaking if you knew the signs.

I used to confuse Union Games with Empire and Mazooma.
What were some of the other games, Im sure it will refresh my memory.

EDIT... Triple Madness I recall as well

 

[shadow123]

Our stuff was licenced to empire and most of their lo tech was based on our games,reflex did a version of triple madness which not successful.
Some of my games were fruit drop, select,crazy bingo,cakewalk, maygays monkey business,and astra,party popper .in the 80s I did firecracker and super nudge gambler for nobles.

 

[slot_zombie]

anyone play the uniongames/maygay bingo machines,they are my little claim to fame we did the first successful £25 30p lo tech- pure madness.the maygay version was 25 carrot gold which gala took in big numbers. best machine was maygays ozzie ozzie ozzie which bell fruit copied and fucked up.being an ex fruity player i always tried to make sure that
the machines were fair to the player,they were always on a decent percentage and a little patience would always streak.
The machines nowdays are no fun even with all the bells and whistles,same story every time shove a ton in before you realise, you are hooked and if lucky you might get half back.

I remember Pure Madness well, hard to read and very rarely gave third hold for feature. Also found it difficult to streak them compared to crazy fruits. Maybe I was just catching them at the wrong time.

 

[09237653]

My era of fruities having grown up in a seaside town was BWB, Barcrest (Mpu4/5), Maygay (m1a) , empire (mpu4/Impact) and JPM (Impact) games like Rollercoaster, Indiana Jones, Road Hog, Andy Capp, Haunted House, Monopoly, Donkey kong, Football fever, Kung Fu, Gladiators (plus hundreds more) usually 5p play £5 cash or £6 (token) jackpots.

A mate of mine has a JPM rollercoaster, love to go round his and rinse it, a lot of Jpms were made into rebuilds ie: empire games, so they are lost forever.

It all went downhill once they went over £8 jackpot, £10, £25 and these days they're all 30/50p play £75 or £100 jackpot or 10p/£5 for the kids, plus the arcades are filled with the newer B3 (random) ones like rainbow riches minimum £1 a spin

 

[RichyJ75]

Woohoo, finally made it into town (Maidstone) without my missus and daughters. Had a few minutes spare, so popped into Reel Fruits with my boy (10 years old) and sampled the joys of the old/vintage fruit machines from my youth.

Oh boy, the memories came flooding back on some of those machines I used to play some 30 years back. So many machines I had forgotten about! Fantastic friendly staff in there - offering me a drink, gave me a couple of quid to play with and great conversation. The few quid I played in there lasted ages and so easy getting jackpots out! Ok, jackpots as in £5 and £8 a time!! Alas, I forgot that some of the older machines played with 20p tokens! First win of £3.60 (won within my first £1 of play!) was paid in tokens, but didn't matter.

I shall return for longer when time allows. Great bit of nostalgia and something I don't mind my boy playing as a few quid lasts for ages, unlike modern machines.

Anyone else local who has been here?

 

[Mabby2000]

I've been meaning to go for a weekend!

 

[Mabby2000]

Our stuff was licenced to empire and most of their lo tech was based on our games,reflex did a version of triple madness which not successful.
Some of my games were fruit drop, select,crazy bingo,cakewalk, maygays monkey business,and astra,party popper .in the 80s I did firecracker and super nudge gambler for nobles.

I remember these fruits back in the day!
At the time I had the arcade, I bought maygay's monkey business rebuild kit along with thrills n spills,
They did well but the little 5mm wedge bulbs keeps blowing nearly every week! (Both on 10p play £8 cash jackpots.

 

[Jd666]

Woohoo, finally made it into town (Maidstone) without my missus and daughters. Had a few minutes spare, so popped into Reel Fruits with my boy (10 years old) and sampled the joys of the old/vintage fruit machines from my youth.

Oh boy, the memories came flooding back on some of those machines I used to play some 30 years back. So many machines I had forgotten about! Fantastic friendly staff in there - offering me a drink, gave me a couple of quid to play with and great conversation. The few quid I played in there lasted ages and so easy getting jackpots out! Ok, jackpots as in £5 and £8 a time!! Alas, I forgot that some of the older machines played with 20p tokens! First win of £3.60 (won within my first £1 of play!) was paid in tokens, but didn't matter.

I shall return for longer when time allows. Great bit of nostalgia and something I don't mind my boy playing as a few quid lasts for ages, unlike modern machines.

Anyone else local who has been here?

Wish I lived near, would be in all the time lol.

Have you tried the new emulator, MFME5?
Fruites play great in it, you even get the spinning discs on Big Breakfast.
Even Partytime and Topslot is emulated on it

MFME5 Emulator here.. Old / Expired Link

Some fruities here..

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And some more here but you have to register on this to see the downloads, Partytime and Topslot on here..

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Partytime and Topslot are a bit more complicated to run as they are classed as 4 machines, so you have to have 4 of the emulators running at the same time

 

[Mabby2000]

Wish I lived near, would be in all the time lol.

Have you tried the new emulator, MFME5?
Fruites play great in it, you even get the spinning discs on Big Breakfast.
Even Partytime and Topslot is emulated on it

MFME5 Emulator here.. Old / Expired Link

Some fruities here..

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And some more here but you have to register on this to see the downloads, Partytime and Topslot on here..

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Partytime and Topslot are a bit more complicated to run as they are classed as 4 machines, so you have to have 4 of the emulators running at the same time

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I've tried downloading party time but had diffuilties to get em running!
Unless mfme5.1 made it easier?

 

[Jd666]

I've tried downloading party time but had diffuilties to get em running!
Unless mfme5.1 made it easier?

I dont know, Im just running the emulator I posted the link to.
Do you have four of the emulators running, one for the top box and 3 for each of the base units?

There is something about having to put an IP address somewhere if they dont run properly, I had to do that to get them going.
Explained here for the classic layout of Partytime Arena, but still works for the other Astra multiplayers

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[Deeplay]

Woohoo, finally made it into town (Maidstone) without my missus and daughters. Had a few minutes spare, so popped into Reel Fruits with my boy (10 years old) and sampled the joys of the old/vintage fruit machines from my youth.

Oh boy, the memories came flooding back on some of those machines I used to play some 30 years back. So many machines I had forgotten about! Fantastic friendly staff in there - offering me a drink, gave me a couple of quid to play with and great conversation. The few quid I played in there lasted ages and so easy getting jackpots out! Ok, jackpots as in £5 and £8 a time!! Alas, I forgot that some of the older machines played with 20p tokens! First win of £3.60 (won within my first £1 of play!) was paid in tokens, but didn't matter.

I shall return for longer when time allows. Great bit of nostalgia and something I don't mind my boy playing as a few quid lasts for ages, unlike modern machines.

Anyone else local who has been here?

Remember well JPs paying out in tokens lol and how some shops (yup cafe bars etc ) would exchange them for cash but for a fee of 10% cheeky bas**(9sds

And they didn't care how old or "young" you were playing em. We used to go into local cafe after paper rounds and blow our brains out on the machine. Was a degenerate gambler then as am I now. But the T&s were easy to read then, and all were none bonus play

 

[brutaldeluxe]

Any of you guys interested in old fruit machines might be interested in this video about how professionals used to empty them:

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[Jono777]

I could have starred in a few of my own back in the day lol

Not a gadget in sight, just needed my provisions for the day, 20 Embassy No.1 and a pocket full of £1 coins for my 'start'

Regularly came home pissed and richer, oh the good old days!

 

[trancemonkey]

I could have starred in a few of my own back in the day lol

Not a gadget in sight, just needed my provisions for the day, 20 Embassy No.1 and a pocket full of £1 coins for my 'start'

Regularly came home pissed and richer, oh the good old days!

Ahh the good old days - i used to make a good living out of the JPM machines (Red Arrow, etc... - All the ones that numbered, and then some)
Also, the Vivid method, the BFG emptiers, etc..

 

[Jd666]

I still have fond memories of my first (token) emptier on Barcrest's Line Up.
Found it out by accident.
Used to go round the other MPU3 machines getting the cash out of them with my pocket full of tokens.

And then sussed an emptier out on a 2p £1.50 Jackpot machine haha

 

[Jono777]

I was fortunate to be privy to lots of emptier's over the years, pity I didn't have the self control or common sense I have now back then.

Ace Coin £2.40 cash / £4.80 tokens, could empty and re-empty if refilled!

BWB, Reno Reels / Monte Carlo or Bust, totally empty every time!

777 Heaven, Jackpot 7's - could force hold on any win, Jackpots were easiest. - Voila Empty and plenty of tokens to play all day lol.

Great Escape, Italian Job, Refuse the 'Red' and force the streak, usually 4 x £15 JP's

Barcrest Up N Over, Lotta Luck, The Jackpoteer's - you little beauty could empty and had hopper key to see if it was worth our time too

Had a few others but these were the main bread winners

Traveled pretty much the whole of the UK (major towns / cities) and had a great time, sometimes getting to stop in a nice BnB.

Had our gold mines (Chester was like walking down the street picking up a bank notes every 10-15 steps) and our more 'on top' areas where they'd phone from pub to pub "There's a strange pair of lads in town....."

 

[trancemonkey]

I was fortunate to be privy to lots of emptier's over the years, pity I didn't have the self control or common sense I have now back then.

Ace Coin £2.40 cash / £4.80 tokens, could empty and re-empty if refilled!

BWB, Reno Reels / Monte Carlo or Bust, totally empty every time!

777 Heaven, Jackpot 7's - could force hold on any win, Jackpots were easiest. - Voila Empty and plenty of tokens to play all day lol.

Great Escape, Italian Job, Refuse the 'Red' and force the streak, usually 4 x £15 JP's

Barcrest Up N Over, Lotta Luck, The Jackpoteer's - you little beauty could empty and had hopper key to see if it was worth our time too

Had a few others but these were the main bread winners

Traveled pretty much the whole of the UK (major towns / cities) and had a great time, sometimes getting to stop in a nice BnB.

Had our gold mines (Chester was like walking down the street picking up a bank notes every 10-15 steps) and our more 'on top' areas where they'd phone from pub to pub "There's a strange pair of lads in town....."

I've forgotten the Jackpoteers one... There's one still in a local arcade... Wonder if it still works... What was it?!

When I worked at Impulse we had a few on our games... Not emptied as such but manipulators. Although I did have an emptier on Spin 'n' Tonic.... But we didn't sell a huge amount of those...

 

[Jono777]

I've forgotten the Jackpoteers one... There's one still in a local arcade... Wonder if it still works... What was it?!

When I worked at Impulse we had a few on our games... Not emptied as such but manipulators. Although I did have an emptier on Spin 'n' Tonic.... But we didn't sell a huge amount of those...

Me n a pal have emptied the one you speak of a handful of times lol.

Good while back now though.

Briefly it was refuse all wins until its 'buzzed up' 'Mystery ?' is rarely giving Game Over and giving good things and force the trail on RHS until it goes red/invincible.

Then refuse it, collecting a £1/£2 win.

Repeat this 4 times and take it into the Cash Streak on the 5th Invincible.

After the streak finished comes the decision making part lol.

If its still crazily buzzed up, can refuse another 1 or 2 Cash Streaks (this can be red/invincible or having the option to take 'Taxi' and put into centre)

After 2 refusals, take streak again.

If its showing slight signs of slowing, should still be good for a couple of JP's from nudge pot or Cash Climber on LHS

 

[nojoke]

I must be older than most people on here lol

I used to love playing this

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then along came this (with a few inbetween) I can still remember the reels on most of the old machines from this period

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and this but with the big round buttons

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The 2 in the mid of top pic.
These were the best.

Early on the Barcrest machines had a jackpot which actualy paid a token that could be exchanged for ciggies.
At 8 years old i not only got addicted to fruity's but also to packets of Number 6 Plain..Cough cough.

At first we dicovered that you could flick 1p into the 5p slot and get a credit. A 2p would do the same in the 10p slot. eventualy the machine would start paying out in 2p's as the tube emptied of silver.

Then someone discovered that you prise open the slot for change with a pen knife. It would give 50p in 10ps.
A piece of fishing line or wire with a hook shape on the end inserted and pulled back would give 50p in 10ps until...The machine was empty.

The ones in our seaside arcades originaly had perspex fronts. You could place your knee into the perspex and stop the nudge reel from counting down. IE unlimited nudges. Once you nudged in the jackpot we would do the same for the 3 reels and , Well it was unlimited jackpots till the machine was empty.

I am not proud of myself, for sure, But as a child the temptation of easy money and ciggies was just too much. What a rascal eh.

I should'nt do so but i'm gonna,, I blame Billy Butlin

Anyone remeber slots that paid out in "Green Shield" stamps ? Oh the good ole days.

 

[brutaldeluxe]

trancemonkey - are your initials DW by any chance ?

I'll post more in this thread later