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I'm sure we all remember these.....


They came out about the last time I ever went in an arcade. They were instrumental in my decision to not go in them again. If any game ever exemplified the futility, hopelessness, addiction and festering minds of their patrons, it was these. The hollow-eyed addicts and daft old witches lined up on seats in front of them, waiting for other players' 'up tops' and nudges to time out while they waited sullenly to press their own start buttons again made me question my own existence should I ever be minded to go in them thereafter.

Many years later I saw them on 10p plays in holiday arcades when I took kids through them to play the pushers and grabbers. I recently went in an arcade to walk through while waiting for an order in town, saw nothing but video random units except for 3 old bar-x-7's and yes, a 3-seat bullion game on 10p/£5 jp. How they have changed, very quiet places now with machines not making any noise now they are in video cabinets, the place virtually empty. Order was wrong, had to go back today and went in the place again, this time having three twenties changed up, lost £20 in 5 minutes on a £1 spin Roaring Forties cabinet slot, then £40 on a £35/15/10 7-bar-x Electrocoin and NOT ONE WIN for £40 in it, 30p play.

I didn't know whether to laugh (at the fact I hadn't played in one for nearly 20 years and at how wise I was not to!) or to cry (at the fact I allowed myself to get rodgered for £60 so fast!) but what I do know is that I had a very sick, despairing feeling walking out, not for my £60 spunked so fast and the burning humiliating feeling of being completely ripped-off, but on behalf of any people still frequenting these hellhole places in 2024. How they must be broken people financially, unhappy and lost in life. I shiver now thinking about it, maybe as you get older you develop more empathy. But my god, nearly 2 decades since I lost more than a few fun pounds in a holiday place and a harsh definitive reminder I shall not be entering one again.
 
This one will need a follow-on video as it seems I got the original launch jackpot wrong. These started at £10 and were then quite quickly upgraded to £15. I sort of had vague memories in my head of them being at £10 but those ROMs have never turned up or been emulated, and I couldn't find any evidence of £10 jackpots (original flyers for example) so went with £15.

Also as @Reelsoffun has already noted, the original Party Time didn't have a 'WAIT' feature if the top box was already active for another slave, this was something Astra added in with later similar machines and later versions of Party Time on bigger jackpots - so I need to correct that too.

Moreover a few comments over at Desert Island Fruits and in the YT comments along the lines of @dunover 's above so it'd be good to get some of those thoughts in there too :D
 
I was watching the new season of 'SHERWOOD' on the BBC last night. Filmed in 2024.

There are some scenes down in Skegness, and also in an arcade there.

Oh look. What's that?
:D


(Also another three player machine can be seen in the background.)

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Sherwood S1 was good. have S2 saved on my Sky Box but not started it yet :thumbsup:

Not sure but think that maybe a Bullion Bars in the Background, font style and colour suggest this also :)
Yes, that's bullshit bars definitely. Never really seen one before, re. my post recently where I noticed one in an arcade then like buses.....

P.S. there was a pensioner playing the BB in the visit I mentioned, he got bar-bullion-bar? and 'went up top' whereupon it paid him 40p for 3 stars and fuck-all else. He moaned across to me and I hadn't a clue what he was on about. He then called across about 30 seconds later where it appeared he got the same 'trigger' and it paid him one £5 jackpot and he was happy. Jesus, what a life, by the grace of god etc....

P.S. that's a coin pusher in the bottom left, a set of steps behind the ethnics and a cash machine under the 'C' of the casino sign. There is also a ceiling and carpet in there. Do I win a roll of tickets towards a cuddly toy?
 
Very good updated video, only one thing to mention, the extra float level was also to offset the fact that note acceptors were starting to be used more and could deplete floats easier, but yes party time and clones did need big floats for the drifts they could do.
 
Slightly faded memory so details are accurate but maybe not 100% perfect.

Quicksilver in Victoria Street had a 3 player £25/30p PT

Regulars would moan than 1 & 2 would play fair and bad but basically average out but that Player 3 never did anything of note and was a right money maker for the arcade.

I did used to think "it has to 'pop' one day" so threw the occasional £10'er at it on my lunch break (my offices in town were literally a 2 minute walk away lol :o) but as far as I recall never a story to tell.

However the one day I was in there and 'pop' indeed it finally did, was a combination of tops/ re-triggers and bottom reel wins but it basically dropped over £300ish in a very short time indeed, part of it was 4 back-to-back pots on top reels, needed a refill, drift must have been huge.

Sadly it wasn't me but was my life long gambling buddy who got the beers and curries in that night!
 
Slightly faded memory so details are accurate but maybe not 100% perfect.

Quicksilver in Victoria Street had a 3 player £25/30p PT

Regulars would moan than 1 & 2 would play fair and bad but basically average out but that Player 3 never did anything of note and was a right money maker for the arcade.

I did used to think "it has to 'pop' one day" so threw the occasional £10'er at it on my lunch break (my offices in town were literally a 2 minute walk away lol :oops:) but as far as I recall never a story to tell.

However the one day I was in there and 'pop' indeed it finally did, was a combination of tops/ re-triggers and bottom reel wins but it basically dropped over £300ish in a very short time indeed, part of it was 4 back-to-back pots on top reels, needed a refill, drift must have been huge.

Sadly it wasn't me but was my life long gambling buddy who got the beers and curries in that night!

That'll be the crazy compensator this thing has on it, which I covered in the video. Basically, even on the original £10 jackpot the compensator would allow a drift of £250 either positive or negative from centre, which gave it a total 'drift zone' of five hundred pounds.

This means it could pay and pay and pay, but also take and take and take. Seeing someone absolutely do their plums in the thing didn't at all mean it would have to pay anything back, as the compensator could still be well within its bounds before it forced the machine to pay something out.

It was described to me as almost being a semi-random machine as long as it wasn't hitting against the upper or lower limits of the compensation.

So seeing the £300 streak you describe above would absolutely be within the realms of what the compensator would allow on the £25 jackpot variant.
 
Very good updated video, only one thing to mention, the extra float level was also to offset the fact that note acceptors were starting to be used more and could deplete floats easier, but yes party time and clones did need big floats for the drifts they could do.

Surely not in the £10 era? The ROMs with the increased float level are dated 1998 and state a £10 top jackpot, earliest note acceptors I can remember were £25 jackpot era? Maybe just about £15 era?

Also, me and another guy are currently working on sussing out how you can stop the slaves going up to the top box, he says he's definitely had it happening in the emulator before. The scary part is apparently there are still some real ones out there in the wild that it can be done on.
 
I’m not 100% sure but fairly sure ours had note acceptors that it committed £2 play and rest was collectible before they were fully dereg to accept them as they do now, would explain why no ROMs around anymore, but it’s a long time ago so not totally sure but did think that was our arena that had the note acceptors mods.

Yes there is some in the wild, probably way more than you think.
 
Yet another one I found out about after the horse was long bolted lol :( :(

As I talk about in the video, this one got pretty feral towards the end when the information started to get widely known. If you had it early doors you were laughing but otherwise it all got a bit sketchy.

Some stories abound of folks being 'reminded' via the medium of violence when they'd ventured into the wrong territory.
 
As I talk about in the video, this one got pretty feral towards the end when the information started to get widely known. If you had it early doors you were laughing but otherwise it all got a bit sketchy.

Some stories abound of folks being 'reminded' via the medium of violence when they'd ventured into the wrong territory.

Plan to watch the video in full after tea, no work today so eating at a reasonable time for once lol.

Yes indeed, I have a LOT of stories I could share based on our exploits over the years, some great, some not so when we did indeed step into "enemy territory" .

We even ended up towards the very end of our efforts taking extra "muscle" just in case, rewarding them with their drinks for the "route" as compensation.
 
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As I talk about in the video, this one got pretty feral towards the end when the information started to get widely known. If you had it early doors you were laughing but otherwise it all got a bit sketchy.

Some stories abound of folks being 'reminded' via the medium of violence when they'd ventured into the wrong territory.

Finally watched the video, nice one :thumbsup:

Pretty sure there was a clone made of this (Or Supercharged WAS the clone maybe?) Either way can't remember the name of it or whether it worked on that machine also?
 
Finally watched the video, nice one :thumbsup:

Pretty sure there was a clone made of this (Or Supercharged WAS the clone maybe?) Either way can't remember the name of it or whether it worked on that machine also?

There was a semi-clone called Cash Attack but the emptier didn't work on that as it was missing the 'flags' feature that the emptier relied on.

Note how it replaces the flags win panel at the top with a shots type thing.

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Ah yes mate, that is the machine I was thinking of. Close but not quite the same thing.

Working with 20+ year old memories here and I am in my 50's now so.......... :oops: :p

I'm actually glad to read of no emptier as I came across loads of those Cash Attacks on my travels.

Apparently Supercharged when chipped, and Cash Attack, could still be decent machines. They had that Barcrest profile where as long as you could maximise every board (as it never stopped offering wins or boarding), you could kind of stay at level-pegging until the jackpot opportunities or streak cycled round.

Someone's left a comment saying they preferred Supercharged when it was chipped as all the players left it alone and they could then do value extraction play on it.
 
Online slots! Progressives! Fruit machines! Road trip! Scotland! Copious amounts of vomiting after drinking far, far too much tequila!

It's all here in the latest video, available now for your enjoyment.

 
Sigh. (My brother has forwarded me this.)

My dad's house is still caught in legal limbo, we can't sell it, but we're responsible for it, so we're having to maintain the insurance on the property and apparently we're going to have to pay council tax this year as well (albeit at a discounted rate, which is very generous, lols.....).

And now we have a guest!

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Latest indignity to be inflicted on my Dad's house is it's been broken into through the loft and had all the copper and other metals stripped out of it.

The fires have been ripped off the walls to get to the copper, and they even nicked the door handles. (THE FUCKING DOOR HANDLES.) Fortunately they didn't set the place on fire or anything.

However we are now seeing light at the end of the tunnel with probate and the house should be going to auction soon with a reserve price that quite frankly seems far higher to me than a property in that condition, in that area, would be expected to attract. That said, that whole area really is landlord central and increasingly few working folks own their own homes anymore, instead tipping over endless money to the rich for whom it'll just be another row on a spreadsheet.

The days of a single working class parent like my Dad being able to support a family and pay a mortgage on a modest terraced house are long gone, they'd have us back to fucking feudalism if they could.

Anyway, this doesn't really make any difference to anything at this point, the house is basically being sold as a shell since it'll need a complete refurbishment before being turned into an extra unit of rental income for the already wealthy.

I think I'll go over one last time for a final walk around before it's sold, that was the house I grew up in after all, my first girlfriend went round there, and me and Mrs Chopley even lived in one of the bedrooms for a while before we moved to the IOM (or back to the IOM in her case). I covered that stuff in the 'My Dad died' video on my channel, and the follow-on funeral video.

One of my brother's mates who's a builder is round there today to resecure the doors, although if they can just get in through the loft the house isn't really 'secure' overall, not that there's fuck all left to pinch in there now anyway.

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Latest indignity to be inflicted on my Dad's house is it's been broken into through the loft and had all the copper and other metals stripped out of it.

The fires have been ripped off the walls to get to the copper, and they even nicked the door handles. (THE FUCKING DOOR HANDLES.) Fortunately they didn't set the place on fire or anything.

However we are now seeing light at the end of the tunnel with probate and the house should be going to auction soon with a reserve price that quite frankly seems far higher to me than a property in that condition, in that area, would be expected to attract. That said, that whole area really is landlord central and increasingly few working folks own their own homes anymore, instead tipping over endless money to the rich for whom it'll just be another row on a spreadsheet.

The days of a single working class parent like my Dad being able to support a family and pay a mortgage on a modest terraced house are long gone, they'd have us back to fucking feudalism if they could.

Anyway, this doesn't really make any difference to anything at this point, the house is basically being sold as a shell since it'll need a complete refurbishment before being turned into an extra unit of rental income for the already wealthy.

I think I'll go over one last time for a final walk around before it's sold, that was the house I grew up in after all, my first girlfriend went round there, and me and Mrs Chopley even lived in one of the bedrooms for a while before we moved to the IOM (or back to the IOM in her case). I covered that stuff in the 'My Dad died' video on my channel, and the follow-on funeral video.

One of my brother's mates who's a builder is round there today to resecure the doors, although if they can just get in through the loft the house isn't really 'secure' overall, not that there's fuck all left to pinch in there now anyway.

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Wow. How shit. My dad's was left unoccupied for nearly 2 years but we paid bills & kept heating and lights on a timer plus installed Ring cameras front and back and left his car on the drive, moving it frrequently plus going over to do the gardens each month. The only alerts we ever had were cats and the odd nosey neighbour going round to have a peek. As you say, intrinsically and materially it won't make much difference as it's being sold as a refurb shell. Hope it goes soon at auction, a stress removed.
 
Wow. How shit. My dad's was left unoccupied for nearly 2 years but we paid bills & kept heating and lights on a timer plus installed Ring cameras front and back and left his car on the drive, moving it frrequently plus going over to do the gardens each month. The only alerts we ever had were cats and the odd nosey neighbour going round to have a peek. As you say, intrinsically and materially it won't make much difference as it's being sold as a refurb shell. Hope it goes soon at auction, a stress removed.

Cheers dunover. Unfortunately it is..... not a good area. I mean, it was never what you'd call fancy but it's proper gone downhill. Mind you I remember even back in the 1980s we got burgled for our (rented!) video recorder which my Dad then had to pay off over the next twelve months or so, on top of the normal rental. They'd probably have nicked the (also rented) TV if they'd have been able to easily get it out of the house.

You tell younger people today that rented tellies and videos were a thing and they look at you like you're mad :D

So I'd say it's an area that was never great, but has got worse.

In his song 'Every Day Is Like Sunday' Morrissey sings about the 'seaside town they forgot to bomb', I kind of feel like my old town is the even worse inland version of that.
 
Say hello to this beast, BFM's Casino Grand Slam, a £1000 jackpot (!) fruit machine from 1998 that, and you're never going to believe it, they fucked up and was emptiable.....

 
Oh dear chops, that was a cringe worthy last few mins of the video, you 99.99999999% threw away a jackpot there, and the way it looks there’s value of at least another one after that probably two with a set of bells included.

The ROMs we have ending 2267 are the earliest and are indeed from late 1998 oct/nov and was shown on the ones I played when they did refills.

I was doing these and made a lot, and was and still am banned from grovesnor casinos to this day, but I’m 99.9% sure it wasn’t an emptier in the full sense.

The float on these was only £1050 (800+250) so they did empty all the time, but only if they had value in them, if it had just taken all the value out you couldn’t do it.

But what made them feel like an emptier was they could have an exceptional amount of value in them esp if people had forced them incorrectly like someone like you for instance LOL or had left it after getting a jackpot, often leaving plenty of value still in it, so they were rarely left in a position that a “professional” couldn’t extract some value out even just after a jackpot.
 
We had 2 of these side by side when I worked in the land based casino industry.

VERY popular and the "profit draw/box" took some dragging out the machine on collection day lol.

Pretty sure no one knew anything regarding exploits on them which is surprising considering they were occupied daily from open till close.

*Side note: Does anyone recall a Barcrest from the same era, £1,000 Jackpot also which had a lengthy feature type trail up the top glass, Pot Symbol was the yellow Barcrest money bag, that's about all I can remember, we had 2 of these also but cannot recall its name.
 
We had 2 of these side by side when I worked in the land based casino industry.

VERY popular and the "profit draw/box" took some dragging out the machine on collection day lol.

Pretty sure no one knew anything regarding exploits on them which is surprising considering they were occupied daily from open till close.

*Side note: Does anyone recall a Barcrest from the same era, £1,000 Jackpot also which had a lengthy feature type trail up the top glass, Pot Symbol was the yellow Barcrest money bag, that's about all I can remember, we had 2 of these also but cannot recall its name.
Yes, he did a video on that a while ago - was it the one where you could use nudges to force the cashpot out?
 
Yes, he did a video on that a while ago - was it the one where you could use nudges to force the cashpot out?

Not 100% mate but think this Barcrest I'm trying (and failing :o) to remember didn't have a cashpot.

Trail with increasing nudge, cash and feature awards, alongside a cash/gamble trail (bit like Psycho Cash Beast Club) ??
 
Costa Del Cash seems to ring a distant bell, so possibly cheers! - Now I've been given the 'nudge' I needed, pretty sure it was holiday themed, which fits.

Basing this convo on a job I left in 1999 so given my memory could have been bloody anything.

Some games I do recall as if It were yesterday we had in the casino, Pharaohs Gold, Cops N Robbers, Lucky Strike, not to forget Casino Crazy which I feel everywhere seemed to have at one point lol.

There was another VERY popular clubber, £250 pot which had bottom and top reels were Bar-X style but also stacked symbols where a full screen of bars was £50 and X's £25 (5 lines top reels) seems someone was forcing it (or trying to) pretty much every night.
 
So someone's posted a video response to my video, he hasn't detailed the whole thing but as he's talking through himself playing the machine, you can see how he basically knows exactly what it's going to spin in next, up to and including stake switching to £10 at the EXACT PERFECT TIME to land the £1000 jackpot on bells.

He also knows when the reels are 'dead' and to stay on £2 spins, only switching stakes when the reels are in a setup that can give a win, he also knows the likely sequences it's going to follow.

He says the best he ever managed out of these was clearing £17,000 profit in a single day, and ended up banned from entire casino chains across the UK.

Good video!

And this folks, is why compensated machines are a really bad idea. There are some absolute horror stories around Grand Slams and the kickings they delivered to people who had no idea what they were letting themselves in for.

 
If you'd like to see dear old socialist Chopley get his arse handed to him on a plate by the sinister machinery of the Capitalist system of oppression, this is the video for you!

 
I have only played the skys the limit game once, was the online one and was quite a while ago but it took 500x off me without the main feature, never played it after that, dreadful game.

In fact several mates have all had same experience on it, none of them have ever won even an tenner and have all said the same thing, how it ever gets close to its RTP is a mystery.

Doubt you’ll ever give it another go either but would love to see a vid of it actually paying!
 
Follow-on video for Grand Slam.

Interestingly, and slightly sinisterly, the video showing the stake switch for the £1000 jackpot has been deleted off YouTube. Fortunately I'd already taken a copy of it.

 
I get comments like this left on my videos from time to time, in the case of Grand Slam, we're talking about a machine that was released in 1998......

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Yeah the cloak and dagger is real and your content is fucking irritating, master player secrets being known by cretins is a big no no. No good comes of it.

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Can understand where this clown is coming from to be fair Chops.

Videos disclosing cheats and disclosing information are potentially taking money out of pro players pockets, being as nearly every pub, club, night club, café, bus station, train station, chip shop, market, community centre, bingo hall etc has 3-4 of these machines lined up lol :rolleyes:
 
Can understand where this clown is coming from to be fair Chops.

Videos disclosing cheats and disclosing information are potentially taking money out of pro players pockets, being as nearly every pub, club, night club, café, bus station, train station, chip shop, market, community centre, bingo hall etc has 3-4 of these machines lined up lol :rolleyes:
Similar story for online exploits as well, the more people that know the higher the chance it will get fixed and/or found out.

not sure if this was before EGO's time but there was an exploit on one of SkillOnNets own games where it could be exploited for massive profits. I knew some people who exploited this but only told me about it after it got fixed but the people who were privy to the info made middling five figure profits from it. It was 6-8 years ago so can't really remember but I think it was either a glitch where reloading the slot would re-generate the win again (repeatable) OR it was a progressive feature that you could load up with lower stakes and then change to a massive stake for the trigger. Whatever it was the slot became a literal infinite money glitch.
 
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Can understand where this clown is coming from to be fair Chops.

Videos disclosing cheats and disclosing information are potentially taking money out of pro players pockets, being as nearly every pub, club, night club, café, bus station, train station, chip shop, market, community centre, bingo hall etc has 3-4 of these machines lined up lol :rolleyes:

It's a bit desperate really isn't it, not least because the specifics of how to do Grand Slam aren't even in the video, but some people really can be incredibly precious about this stuff.

Moreover, I have steered away from information that was actually current over the years, for example I had the Powerplay/Batman Power Up methods when they were very much a real thing in the pubs and arcades, and I didn't do anything about them on my channel because that would just be a bit twatty.

Apparently there might still be a couple of the lower jackpot Grand Slam clone 'Hot Six' around, tucked away in social clubs or suchlike, and as far as I can tell they never got rechipped, but when we're talking about machines this old there has to be a point that you just let it go IMO.

The emulator's author, Wizard, used to ask that the 'three year rule' be observed, which meant that any machine younger than three years old, even if it could be emulated, shouldn't have a layout be publicly released for it.

When it comes to Grand Slam, this was a machine that was released in 1998 and then was all rechipped and done by 2000/2001......
 
You really didn’t need to worry about it rolling in pots and repeating. This is obv as happy as the machine could get and even repeating twice could never kill it at all or be even close to stop it from ‘numbering’ if you like.

As you rightly say, knowledge of reel drops and set ups was key, really helped nab those extra bar codes.

Your comments at the end about leaving it dead for the next person???? You were never leaving it dead mate. Would only ever be a few quid from being ready or ‘numbering’ again when the majority of the contents of the hopper was coming from free wins and when the machine was so far behind it had to roll in pots and repeat. So any casual player would have never noticed the difference. A clued up player would easily scrape another £20-£50 of value after your left it tho.

Link below will be of interest to you tho.

A clone (ish) being done the same way with a few extra options!!!


 
You really didn’t need to worry about it rolling in pots and repeating. This is obv as happy as the machine could get and even repeating twice could never kill it at all or be even close to stop it from ‘numbering’ if you like.

As you rightly say, knowledge of reel drops and set ups was key, really helped nab those extra bar codes.

Your comments at the end about leaving it dead for the next person???? You were never leaving it dead mate. Would only ever be a few quid from being ready or ‘numbering’ again when the majority of the contents of the hopper was coming from free wins and when the machine was so far behind it had to roll in pots and repeat. So any casual player would have never noticed the difference. A clued up player would easily scrape another £20-£50 of value after your left it tho.

Link below will be of interest to you tho.

A clone (ish) being done the same way with a few extra options!!!




Interesting video, I haven't seen that one before. TBH I never realised Force 10 was a straight clone of Wild West, don't remember ever seeing one over here either.

He basically has all the same problems to overcome as I do on Wild West, but he has more skills to deal with them :D

Also Force 10 has a far better sound and music package than Wild West.
 
Interesting video, I haven't seen that one before. TBH I never realised Force 10 was a straight clone of Wild West, don't remember ever seeing one over here either.

He basically has all the same problems to overcome as I do on Wild West, but he has more skills to deal with them :D

Also Force 10 has a far better sound and music package than Wild West.

Not watched it but I can tell it is Jus Winter, a proper old school professional who REALLY knows his stuff, regularly features on the James Hardy Fruit machine channel :thumbsup:
 
Yeah these guys knew their stuff but alas they didn’t know their stuff on things they didn’t know about!!!!

I could happily play blindfolded on some games but would be embarrassed on others.

Didn’t know anything about JPM/ACES back in the day what so ever. But those player’s that did couldn’t hold a candle to me on SG lo tecs.

We all live, we all learn.
 
If I do say so myself, there's quite an interesting little story going on with this one. I'm merely the 'front man' who made the video for it, there's been a lot of hardcore fruit machine nerdery going on at Desert Island Fruits to make this one happen, including some reverse engineering of fruit machine ROMs.

A real community effort!

 
The amountof times I'd get the invincible, nudge in a win, get another invincible, get offered to nudge in another win, but opt for numbers instead, grr.I played it for months, knowing it could do multiple invincibles, but not knowing it can go unlimited lol. Only found out why very late lol.

Always found the reelskill for barcode to be a bitch on this one, had to line it up perfect or it loved a jump. m3mories!
 
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