Yeah brilliant fruits from the 80's and early 90's! There's an arcade full of these classics.
Bet some of you know where the arcade is!
I loved that machine! £4.80 repeat spinner , best I had is 24.00!
Some one else managed £48!
Heres a day out than
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This is the FIRST OFFICIAL video of the Reel Fruits Classic Amusement arcade located in Maidstone, Kent. With OVER 130 classic fruit machines, Reel Fruits has some of the RAREST and most ICONIC fruit machines from the 1980's and 1990's. Take a step back in time, even bring the family. You wont get big jackpots with us, but you will get value for money AMUSEMENTS! Visit us online
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This is the FIRST OFFICIAL video of the Reel Fruits Classic Amusement arcade located in Maidstone, Kent. With OVER 130 classic fruit machines, Reel Fruits has some of the RAREST and most ICONIC fruit machines from the 1980's and 1990's. Take a step back in time, even bring the family. You wont get big jackpots with us, but you will get value for money AMUSEMENTS! Visit us online
There were 2 of these in Quicksilver, Queen Street that were basically played all day, every day. An arcade and youth club all in one. Whether you're a smoker or not you were the minute you walked in
My personal best was 'topping the bank' (Which was £33.60) almost twice from the Triple red Bars with the flames around them. Arcade had just opened at 9am, (I was first in and on my way to work for a 10am start in Dudley)
Had to collect at £33.60 then repeated to £28.80 and went empty upon collecting that.
There was also a little trick around at this time whereas the very first 'credit' of the day on Electrocoin's Bar-X (the £2/£6 one) would 7/10 result in a win of either X's or Bar's (once common knowledge people were turning these on n off all day when they got chance!)
I thought as I was alone 2-3 tokens in all 4 of these Bar-X then off to work, play the Fireball winnings after work. I almost fell over when 3 out of the 4 dropped 3 Bars in, 2 of which went onto hold (never saw this again ever)
At this point I had just under £100 in 20p tokens and made a very important decision.....
'Back in a bit' I shouted to the arcade staff (who I knew well and trusted, they'd offered to put my tokens in the safe till I returned after my shift)
A very convenient phone box was directly (and still is!) opposite the arcade. 10p and 2 minutes later a 'sickie' was pulled.
Winning start continued and together with this, a lot of patient and plenty of clueless players lead to to almost £250 in cash by the end of the day, more than I earnt in a week so a very profitable day off work!
Yup! The owner is a great guy!
There are some pics of my old amusement arcade on his forums.
Been trying to persuade the wife and kids for a weekend down to reel fruits!
I want to hammer all the lovely project pc90's!
And my beloved ace coin grand national an play it again on the original £4.80 roms hopefully!
Thinking about machines with batteries that went dud, one day a customer emptied Bfm's hyperactive 10p play £8 cash.. I went WTF!
So checked it over then wheeled it out the back and stripped it then got the hammer treatment!
Had a mab super bar x on 20p play £10 jackpot. Bloody popular with the grannies!
There were 2 of these in Quicksilver, Queen Street that were basically played all day, every day. An arcade and youth club all in one. Whether you're a smoker or not you were the minute you walked in
My personal best was 'topping the bank' (Which was £33.60) almost twice from the Triple red Bars with the flames around them. Arcade had just opened at 9am, (I was first in and on my way to work for a 10am start in Dudley)
Had to collect at £33.60 then repeated to £28.80 and went empty upon collecting that.
There was also a little trick around at this time whereas the very first 'credit' of the day on Electrocoin's Bar-X (the £2/£6 one) would 7/10 result in a win of either X's or Bar's (once common knowledge people were turning these on n off all day when they got chance!)
I thought as I was alone 2-3 tokens in all 4 of these Bar-X then off to work, play the Fireball winnings after work. I almost fell over when 3 out of the 4 dropped 3 Bars in, 2 of which went onto hold (never saw this again ever)
At this point I had just under £100 in 20p tokens and made a very important decision.....
'Back in a bit' I shouted to the arcade staff (who I knew well and trusted, they'd offered to put my tokens in the safe till I returned after my shift)
A very convenient phone box was directly (and still is!) opposite the arcade. 10p and 2 minutes later a 'sickie' was pulled.
Winning start continued and together with this, a lot of patient and plenty of clueless players lead to to almost £250 in cash by the end of the day, more than I earnt in a week so a very profitable day off work!
vinylweatherman;689331[/QUOTE said:. This will mean that any emptier that relied on abnormal activity would easily be spotted, so my "buttons in front of me" ideal is probably now the only kind of empty that can be done right under their noses.
Ace coin red lines machines....practically secured my student days financially from them and other things.
Monte Carlo, Reno Reels, I'd give anything to relive those days.
. This will mean that any emptier that relied on abnormal activity would easily be spotted, so my "buttons in front of me" ideal is probably now the only kind of empty that can be done right under their noses.
:l
Well us old school players know what "undergoing maintenance" means, the game is "getting chipped".
Erm! You got me on this one, no idea - Sure I'll think 'Bloody hell, yeah' when you tell me
Gotta at least return the favour tho...
1) On which machine could you (with the skills) get the £3 repeater via 'Find the Knight'?
2) Which SWP featured 4 playing cards of same value, where a very fast 'eye' was needed but was genuine skill?
3) Which Project Coin machine was one of the first to feature both a 'bonus reel' along with Black 7's on the reel strips? (maybe more than one answer to this but pretty sure you'll name the one I'm thinking of)
and an easy one...
4) What was the 'symbol' which stood out from all the others on Project's 'Hit the Six'
Erm! You got me on this one, no idea - Sure I'll think 'Bloody hell, yeah' when you tell me
Gotta at least return the favour tho...
1) On which machine could you (with the skills) get the £3 repeater via 'Find the Knight'?
Partly guess work, but I'll go with "Camelot" the ACE version. This is because their machines all had this "find the pea" "find the key" etc as the exchange feature for the blue bars. Camelot came along after the "lines" heyday, so it's an educated guess that they rehashed this feature as the "skill climb" to the £3 repeater.
2) Which SWP featured 4 playing cards of same value, where a very fast 'eye' was needed but was genuine skill?
BWB's "Find the Lady". Was 4 queens and you had to spot the last one to show. It got faster and faster as you climbed the prizes, so a "fast eye" was required. I think I only saw a couple of these. I don't think they were meant to be SWP, but maybe they were if players were quick enough that they could hit it every time.
3) Which Project Coin machine was one of the first to feature both a 'bonus reel' along with Black 7's on the reel strips? (maybe more than one answer to this but pretty sure you'll name the one I'm thinking of)
Nudge XS - lo tech crap, not something I would play very often.
and an easy one...
4) What was the 'symbol' which stood out from all the others on Project's 'Hit the Six'
Yes and no, there were two symbols that could be said to "stand out". one was the top prize symbol, which was a target theme with "hit the six" written across it at a time when jackpots were usually sevens of various colours, although there were exceptions like 8's, moons, and 9's. The other was the number 2 in an arrow that was only on the middle reel, and which activated the "hit the six" bonus feature. In terms of it's function as well as it's style, this was a most unusual symbol, and may be the one that really "stood out" to players.
Easy in the sense that it's emulated, So didn't have to break a sweat working this one out
I was just about to answer these questions!Cheers for the pic, couldn't find that any where, must be a bad googler
Gonna take a look at that emu-link later this thread got me wishing I had a Tardis.
Regarding your initial challenge not a clue, played it back 7-8 times and I can't even think of an answer that would be classed as even close!
1) Maygay's 'Screen Play' Find the Knight was one of the £1 or £1.20 'exchange points' and was very similar in play to (2) Find the Lady. For an AWP it was genuine skill and if you selected correctly it would award you as it should (no jumping or pretending you'd got it wrong)
2) Spot On! - As you say rare, I knew of 2 in Wolves, a local chippy and Eve's Nighclub.
3) Spot on again! - No emptier my end etc but a slot I was genuinely very lucky on (helped that I knew you could nudge up during XS feature and most of the other players didn't)
4) Yup! - The arrow symbol was the one I meant (apologies, not a very well worded question) The combination in your screen shot (I Think) is ready for a 'Hold the lot' and nudge up either the Bar or Hit the Six symbol for a JP?
I was just about to answer these questions!
Remember maygay' screen play! Good game play!
Played find the lady, £10 jackpot at a bus station cafe in Exeter about 20 years ago!
Hit the six 20p play £2.40 cash jackpot in an arcade in Taunton in early 90's.
Great thread!
Cheers.
That's a good idea!Oops! - my apologies forgot there were hundreds who read this, not just VWM and myself
Will do another mini quiz soon, not a PM thing or a 'proper' quiz like Dunover's recent marvel, just ask that participants don't post answers in thread and reveal all after a few days maybe??