Slot Stories of Yesteryear

[vinylweatherman]

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?

PS: You gonna keep me hanging on VWM ???

Most definitely

However, here's another clue.

3 out of 4 isn't bad either. I vaguely remember that Maygay screen play shite, but not the features, so I had to try a bit of educated guesswork.

 

[Jono777]

Defo remember that!!! - But from where

 

[dunover]

Anyone remember these:

The one where you had to escape the cat on the trail (you were the mouse carrying the cheese wedge)? Bonzo the Bulldog would occasionally protect you for a go by stopping the cat. £4.80 JP

Frog Hopper (early 80's)?

Safe Cracker circa 1984 £4 JP (The 'Safecracker' feature was the one you wanted the flashing light to land on).

 

[vinylweatherman]

Defo remember that!!! - But from where

Another clue - it's easy

I'm sure they had one of these at almost every services.

 

[Jono777]

Anyone remember these:

The one where you had to escape the cat on the trail (you were the mouse carrying the cheese wedge)? Bonzo the Bulldog would occasionally protect you for a go by stopping the cat. £4.80 JP

Frog Hopper (early 80's)?

Safe Cracker circa 1984 £4 JP (The 'Safecracker' feature was the one you wanted the flashing light to land on).

I recall the cheese £4.80 slot, dunno the name tho.

The others I don't recall, may have gone my the time my 'gambling career' started around 1990.

 

[Jono777]

Another clue - it's easy

I'm sure they had one of these at almost every services.

Blumin useless I am

Was it 'Hot Rod' the Barcrest sister slot to Road Hog ?

 

[vinylweatherman]

Blumin useless I am

Was it 'Hot Rod' the Barcrest sister slot to Road Hog ?

Sadly no.

 

[Jono777]

time to sleep on it

 

[spintee]

I auto thought it was hot rod but than there's some foot steps that sounds like one of the versions of andycapp

 

[Mabby2000]

Think i remember the cat and mouse... What tech was it?

Remember electrocoin's labyrinth?
Then pyramid
Then Sphinx ! (I had a sphinx on 20p £8 cash) very popular in the arcade!
I can just about to remember another, Star Trek? Plays similar to above...
There was another with 5 reels with cards as fruits...
I could try my best to listen to see if I name the fruits! (I'm deaf mind lol!)

 

[vinylweatherman]

time to sleep on it

I will describe the action from that clip.

After spinning the reels, nudges are awarded. A win is then nudged in and exchanged for the feature, which is a blackjack based one (in this go) where the player has 3 hands and the dealer one. Provided the player wins at least one hand another set is dealt. When the player loses all 3 hands, the feature is over. Other features are possible, and once in the feature game it's possible to keep throwing a pair of dice to move around a feature selection board. There are 2 squares that will end your go, so you can't just keep going until you get the feature you like the most.

 

[Jd666]

I know it but its not my question lol.

Loving this thread, bringing back some memories.

Arcades are just full of Astras, reflexes, electrocoins and the video cabs nowadays, oh and that bloody Noel Edmonds, but a lot of arcades dont even have hi-tecs in any more.

 

[vinylweatherman]

I know it but its not my question lol.

Loving this thread, bringing back some memories.

Arcades are just full of Astras, reflexes, electrocoins and the video cabs nowadays, oh and that bloody Noel Edmonds, but a lot of arcades dont even have hi-tecs in any more.

I have noticed this trend. The £500 Jackpot is probably being used as the lure as these machines charge £1 or £2 a spin, whereas the hi-tec games are limited to £100 jackpot, take longer to play each go, and stakes range from 25p to £1. Better value for the players, but the units can't take in money as fast.

However, the compensated lo-tecs can and do drop the occasional exploit into the scene

The hi-tec scene seems to mostly consist of DOND variations, even though many are no longer themed on that show, it's still the same game underneath, and so can still be emptied if they screw up another ROM upgrade (here's hoping )

It seems the industry are targeting the games at a more basic level, and other than DOND, are not producing games for the seasoned players who are up for the intellectual challenge. It could of course be that their programmers are not up to the intellectual challenge of producing a game that the supplier can be confident won't be getting reamed as soon as it's on site

 

[Jono777]

I auto thought it was hot rod but than there's some foot steps that sounds like one of the versions of andycapp

Hmmm the mind boggles. It's the 'Im Rich, I am ...' that really rings a bell, together with the sound of the engine turning over. Still ain't got it and beginning to bug me just a little

 

[vinylweatherman]

Hmmm the mind boggles. It's the 'Im Rich, I am ...' that really rings a bell, together with the sound of the engine turning over. Still ain't got it and beginning to bug me just a little

I'll bug you some more with 2 further clues.

1) It was striking, ahead of it's time in a way, compared with the other machines surrounding it. One might sometimes think it was in the "wrong part" of a motorway services area until one got closer and realised it was a fruity. It had a legendary "massive token streak".

2)

 

[Mabby2000]

I'll bug you some more with 2 further clues.

1) It was striking, ahead of it's time in a way, compared with the other machines surrounding it. One might sometimes think it was in the "wrong part" of a motorway services area until one got closer and realised it was a fruity. It had a legendary "massive token streak".

2)

Bwb based... Reno reels?
Or mami dice...

 

[Jono777]

I'll bug you some more with 2 further clues.

1) It was striking, ahead of it's time in a way, compared with the other machines surrounding it. One might sometimes think it was in the "wrong part" of a motorway services area until one got closer and realised it was a fruity. It had a legendary "massive token streak".

2)

Geez How on earth didn't I get that - Its 'Monte Carlo or Bust' (slaps own face) I spend hours upon hours emptying them.
Features included, 21, Dice, BJ, Roulette, Horse Racing, 5 line Fruit Machine and some others, you could also get 'Super' features which paid much better than a 'normal' feature.

'That's a win' - 'and we have a winner'

The emptier was one of the easiest to do and even if you messed up it was quick to 'get going' again.

Basic refusal of the wins and the 'game on' (similar to 'watch for my hidden treasures' on Ace) would get it buzzing and then basically 'bad holding' such as holding one red 7 on the win line and one red 7 above when the machine 'wanted you' to hold the 2 mixed 7's on the line for a £1 win.

You could actually take the wins this way and the 'super nudges' made it easier once 'flying' as you could bring 2 or even all 3 reels down together.

The features would almost always be a 'super' which helped empty quicker and before the re-chip (which would still do it but cut off a lot quicker) the repeat chance on the £4 and £8 could actually repeat on 'bad cards' and go all the way to the 4th repeat.

They had 2 of these side by side in our main arcade which we had 'established ourselves' in (used to do lunch n fag runs for owners etc) and they seemed to allow us to benefit from these for weeks, even building up IOU'S when empty. (it was a very busy arcade with plenty of clueless players too so a lot of the time these would re-float themselves too)

We travelled miles in search of these and found loads, cannot believe I didn't get it from the 2nd clue onwards

 

[vinylweatherman]

Geez How on earth didn't I get that - Its 'Monte Carlo or Bust' (slaps own face) I spend hours upon hours emptying them.
Features included, 21, Dice, BJ, Roulette, Horse Racing, 5 line Fruit Machine and some others, you could also get 'Super' features which paid much better than a 'normal' feature.

'That's a win' - 'and we have a winner'

The emptier was one of the easiest to do and even if you messed up it was quick to 'get going' again.

Basic refusal of the wins and the 'game on' (similar to 'watch for my hidden treasures' on Ace) would get it buzzing and then basically 'bad holding' such as holding one red 7 on the win line and one red 7 above when the machine 'wanted you' to hold the 2 mixed 7's on the line for a £1 win.

You could actually take the wins this way and the 'super nudges' made it easier once 'flying' as you could bring 2 or even all 3 reels down together.

The features would almost always be a 'super' which helped empty quicker and before the re-chip (which would still do it but cut off a lot quicker) the repeat chance on the £4 and £8 could actually repeat on 'bad cards' and go all the way to the 4th repeat.

They had 2 of these side by side in our main arcade which we had 'established ourselves' in (used to do lunch n fag runs for owners etc) and they seemed to allow us to benefit from these for weeks, even building up IOU'S when empty. (it was a very busy arcade with plenty of clueless players too so a lot of the time these would re-float themselves too)

We travelled miles in search of these and found loads, cannot believe I didn't get it from the 2nd clue onwards

How can I be sure you got it without help, half an hour before the answer is more or less posted

I preferred this one over the others due to the sounds. I didn't know it was an emptier, but I was taking advantage of the "bad holds" and "super nudges" as part of my strategy, and did manage to empty a few of all their tokens.

 

[Jono777]

Here's a few teasers for today, will put answers in thread early evening ish...

1) 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, you're going down in round 3' - Which slot's JP music and how did you know it was 'ready' or not from just one or two feature boards?

2) How did you know from the 'triggering credit' that Maygay's 'Search Light' streak had started?

3) Which BFM machine had an exert from Shirley Bassey's 'Goldfinger' as the JP tune?

4) 'The Six dog is in the lead' - Which JPM machine. Not an emptier but how could you also 'force' a few extra wins by avoiding 'normal' play?

5) Re: BFM's 'Cash Force' - The reel match feature, how could you know 100% that the first reel would come to land/award the match attempt on either the melon(£2) or bell(£1.60)

6) Can you name these 'marked cards' from BWB's 'Red Hot Poker' (loved the streak on that machine!!)



Re above,

That's the beauty. Yes it was one of the 'less challenging' emptier I came across, virtually no concentration needed

Also my fave too out of those 'set' of machines. They did 'upgrade' a couple of the later versions in our arcade to £10 cash but after 3-4 JP's at most the bad holds would no longer award the nudges.

 

[Jono777]

AWP's

Does anyone know of anywhere that maybe sells a selection of the older AWP's (such as the ones we've being discussing etc)

I would have thought these would be easy to find but nope. Found a few sites but there all £35 JP's and over the £100 mark to buy.

I'm after one of the following, Cash Force(BFM/£4.80 tokens), Hi-Point(BFM/4.80tokens), Lotta Luck (Barcrest £15 all cash JP) or the main one Up 'N' Over - Barcrest £15 All cash JP (Original Chip))

 

[spintee]

Take a butchers on ebay, I knew a small warehouse in Northampton that was stocked up, Not been there in a good few years so who knows about that now,

Also a few years back I used to travel to a few old private pubs, That used to get there own in and sell there old old old one's Now most pubs have been bulldozed or they just do the 50/50 split with the company's but all new machines

 

[dunover]

Here's a few teasers for today, will put answers in thread early evening ish...

1) 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, you're going down in round 3' - Which slot's JP music and how did you know it was 'ready' or not from just one or two feature boards?

2) How did you know from the 'triggering credit' that Maygay's 'Search Light' streak had started?

3) Which BFM machine had an exert from Shirley Bassey's 'Goldfinger' as the JP tune?

4) 'The Six dog is in the lead' - Which JPM machine. Not an emptier but how could you also 'force' a few extra wins by avoiding 'normal' play?

5) Re: BFM's 'Cash Force' - The reel match feature, how could you know 100% that the first reel would come to land/award the match attempt on either the melon(£2) or bell(£1.60)

6) Can you name these 'marked cards' from BWB's 'Red Hot Poker' (loved the streak on that machine!!)

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Re above,

That's the beauty. Yes it was one of the 'less challenging' emptier I came across, virtually no concentration needed

Also my fave too out of those 'set' of machines. They did 'upgrade' a couple of the later versions in our arcade to £10 cash but after 3-4 JP's at most the bad holds would no longer award the nudges.

4 2 and queen or 2 jack and queen IIRC...

 

[vinylweatherman]

Does anyone know of anywhere that maybe sells a selection of the older AWP's (such as the ones we've being discussing etc)

I would have thought these would be easy to find but nope. Found a few sites but there all £35 JP's and over the £100 mark to buy.

I'm after one of the following, Cash Force(BFM/£4.80 tokens), Hi-Point(BFM/4.80tokens), Lotta Luck (Barcrest £15 all cash JP) or the main one Up 'N' Over - Barcrest £15 All cash JP (Original Chip))

"red tape" tends to drive private sales underground. eBay don't really like them being listed because they are gambling machines. However, sellers will convert them to "free play" in order to get around this, and buyers merely convert them back if so desired.

Now, strictly speaking, private owners need a "machine licence" to sell an old fruity, it's £25. This means that they tend to sell them to bigger vendors who have their own licences, and some specialist vendors will deal in older machines for the enthusiast market.

Apart from emulation, the various fruit machine forums do arrange peer to peer swaps of these older machines, and this is probably where they can be found.

There are a couple of "vintage arcades" offering these classics for play as they were, tokens and all.

It would appear that we have reached a time where those who used to play these in their misspent youth are becoming collectors, so the machines that remain are becoming "collector's items".

I have three from the 1980's, a Nudge Double up and 2 "melon meter" games from JPM. Only one will boot up and work now, the other two have developed faults and have been put into storage in my garage. Probably too niche (and heavy) for the average garage thief to bother with. I also have a "Hi Deal" electro-mechanical pinball machine, currently residing in the lounge.

Now, if I had more space...........

 

[Mabby2000]

"red tape" tends to drive private sales underground. eBay don't really like them being listed because they are gambling machines. However, sellers will convert them to "free play" in order to get around this, and buyers merely convert them back if so desired.

Now, strictly speaking, private owners need a "machine licence" to sell an old fruity, it's £25. This means that they tend to sell them to bigger vendors who have their own licences, and some specialist vendors will deal in older machines for the enthusiast market.

Apart from emulation, the various fruit machine forums do arrange peer to peer swaps of these older machines, and this is probably where they can be found.

There are a couple of "vintage arcades" offering these classics for play as they were, tokens and all.

It would appear that we have reached a time where those who used to play these in their misspent youth are becoming collectors, so the machines that remain are becoming "collector's items".

I have three from the 1980's, a Nudge Double up and 2 "melon meter" games from JPM. Only one will boot up and work now, the other two have developed faults and have been put into storage in my garage. Probably too niche (and heavy) for the average garage thief to bother with. I also have a "Hi Deal" electro-mechanical pinball machine, currently residing in the lounge.

Now, if I had more space...........

Could ask for technical help over on Mecca.

 

[Mabby2000]

Does anyone know of anywhere that maybe sells a selection of the older AWP's (such as the ones we've being discussing etc)

I would have thought these would be easy to find but nope. Found a few sites but there all £35 JP's and over the £100 mark to buy.

I'm after one of the following, Cash Force(BFM/£4.80 tokens), Hi-Point(BFM/4.80tokens), Lotta Luck (Barcrest £15 all cash JP) or the main one Up 'N' Over - Barcrest £15 All cash JP (Original Chip))

I have owned loads of fruits!
I have 2 in my shed, 1 is electrocoin's mk2 baby super bar x on 20p play £4.80 tokens and I have mab's £10 cash roms. Awesome on nudges for jackpot nearly every spin! Best streak I managed is £80 ish.
The other is jpm's casino crazy impact cab was on £15 roms. I sold off mpu, cards and psu.
Just the cab and reels!
I've been looking for party time plasma for a long time.
Seen one on eBay 4 player but 2 player worked for... £310!
I didn't have the space back then.
Another Bfm, force five £4.80 cor I would love to have it!
Nice selection of fruits... eBay is getting stupid with fruits, if there's one that you want, message the seller for a phone number in case eBay pulls the ad.