Anyone have or collect fruit machines and good or bad memories
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I would rather play the Black Hole £1.50 any day.
I have not seen a real one for many years.
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Someone plays them we had many Inspired Flex cabs a work & after just 2 years at the services they had taken £2mil & paid out just 600K that's good money in anyone's language.
iPub2/3 is dead now with only Prismatics on the Novamatic line left in most pubs now.
Inspired Vantage is what people want now & of course Blueprint (Regal) cabs such as the Ultramax & Velocity.
All the Inspired games are made in Kochi India.
iPub2/3 is dead now with only Prismatics on the Novamatic line left in most pubs now.
Inspired Vantage is what people want now & of course Blueprint (Regal) cabs such as the Ultramax & Velocity.
All the Inspired games are made in Kochi India.
Yes a lot of people do play them for sure, but they just don't feel the same as the 80's ones.
My only slot machine..
Just legalised robbery, that's why I'd never play them apart from at home, I struggled to justify money in video games but 20 mins on double dragon for 50p was well worth it and this was main reason I didn't play many other video games, 50p could be gone in Fruit Machine in secconds
Ideally I just wanted an old fruit machine cab with 2 screens and a pc so it looks like real thing when switched and you can play all the old ones just a shame the emulators don't bother on proper cab setup though I think later ones ran on windows 10 can do it maybe
That's what I'm thinking of doing with modern thing.
The Machines in bookies are even worse
£100 a spin
50 p for double dragon is just as bad lol
I never paid anymore than 10 p
The days of 10p lasting many hours 😢 long gone.
Just cash grab now....anyone got a time machine set for 1980...I'm on it.
I've got a few fruit machines, got a Deal 'Em cab, the version built on a Barcrest cab from 1987 I think. In fact I have three! First one I bought would work straight away if I put an MPU4 in it and a Hanty 900E or 9000 chassis for the 14" crt. I used the MPU4 from it to get another cab working years ago, an otherwise mint Fruit Cracker machine, seem to remember going to Bideford to pick it up (Barcrest cab exactly the same as the Deal 'Em, if I remember correctly it had been converted from Stop The Clock). I had it for some time, I was originally going to empty it and use the cabinet for my Deal 'Em as that has quite some wear and damage to it round the edges but it was too good to strip down. Some time later I had sold it and typically the MPU4 in it went wrong when I gave it a last test the night before the buyer came to collect so I had to put the Deal 'Em MPU4 in and get the payouts working properly on the MPU4, was up till the early hours and then got up really early to make sure it was all working again!
The other two Deal 'Em's I picked up years ago, still not got around to fixing them up! I also had a Deal 'Em 2000 years ago (the version built on a later cab design with a 19" WG K7000 in it) for a while that i'd picked up from a local op. I do remember a Deal 'Em built on another Barcrest cab shape from the 80's or early 90's that I used to play years ago in St. Ives but i've not seen one for many years. I've also got an Electrocoin Bar X in storage, needs a board (JPM Scorpion if I remember correctly) as its current one has the volume stuck on full blast!
The ones I always liked from the 80's were always stuff like Nudge Double Up Deluxe (Mk3 or Mk4 if I remember correctly), Eachway Nudger, probably some others I can't remember. I know they go for ££££ these days so i'm unlikely to find a cheap one that needs fixing up.
The other two Deal 'Em's I picked up years ago, still not got around to fixing them up! I also had a Deal 'Em 2000 years ago (the version built on a later cab design with a 19" WG K7000 in it) for a while that i'd picked up from a local op. I do remember a Deal 'Em built on another Barcrest cab shape from the 80's or early 90's that I used to play years ago in St. Ives but i've not seen one for many years. I've also got an Electrocoin Bar X in storage, needs a board (JPM Scorpion if I remember correctly) as its current one has the volume stuck on full blast!
The ones I always liked from the 80's were always stuff like Nudge Double Up Deluxe (Mk3 or Mk4 if I remember correctly), Eachway Nudger, probably some others I can't remember. I know they go for ££££ these days so i'm unlikely to find a cheap one that needs fixing up.
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3 deal em cabs ! Nice
There was something about it that made you think it was fair .while sucking every penny you had
Nudge double up deluxe mk1v was the good one I think ,at least from my time
That fruit machine that ran off a crt ,cop a lot .but had other names .
Did you even encounter them .i always remember the monitors losing sync in the arcades and being unplayable until they were sorted
3 deal em cabs ! Nice
There was something about it that made you think it was fair .while sucking every penny you had
Nudge double up deluxe mk1v was the good one I think ,at least from my time
That fruit machine that ran off a crt ,cop a lot .but had other names .
Did you even encounter them .i always remember the monitors losing sync in the arcades and being unplayable until they were sorted
I used to own several,from memory(supertubes,fortune numbers,italian job,lucky strike,queen vic,pink panther,rat race,apollo 9,jester,to name but a few),I got them all for free,when ops gave them away non working,it was usually either a bad power supply or battery leakage on the mpu,I managed to save a few and sell them on,as their value increased,I also confess to smashing up loads,and stripping them for parts(the locks with keys alone used to be worth more than the whole machine years ago!).I don't own any now,as I have been thining out my collection of cabs over the last few years,I used to have a garage full of arcade,fruit and pinball machines,but now the kids have moved out 90% of my cabs are in the house,and I will probably thin them out even more as I get older or they break down to a point where I can no longer fix them
I still also have a couple of 1970s bell fruit arm pull penny play electro mechanical floor standing updates of the earlier mechanical bandits but with electrical payouts and both feature in the lower half , a change facility so 10p could be inserted for ten 1p coins ….
True above @stevebm1 the locks/keys and perhaps s1 coin entry validators, and player buttons were the most valuable salvage even from fully working out-dated machines as the slightly newer brighter play appeal cabs with multi coin entry mars mechs saved the change requirements and were often again free or cheap from bigger arcade operators as they went even newer as rapid new trends saw big wall and centrepiece machines (pushers, cranes, large&dual video cabs & even multi gun shooting galleries) gained popularity and these low stake low profit penny/2p fruits were abandoned to the 10p high appeal , and high variety of 1980s replacements.
True above @stevebm1 the locks/keys and perhaps s1 coin entry validators, and player buttons were the most valuable salvage even from fully working out-dated machines as the slightly newer brighter play appeal cabs with multi coin entry mars mechs saved the change requirements and were often again free or cheap from bigger arcade operators as they went even newer as rapid new trends saw big wall and centrepiece machines (pushers, cranes, large&dual video cabs & even multi gun shooting galleries) gained popularity and these low stake low profit penny/2p fruits were abandoned to the 10p high appeal , and high variety of 1980s replacements.
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I remember Deal ‘Em. There was an emptier for it BITD. If I remember rightly you played Pontoon, press twist and then turn off the power to the machine. When the machine re-booted if the hand was a losing one, it would pay out a random amount. If you got 21 then it would lose. Rinse and repeat until the machine was empty.
I must of been playing them ,after people in the know had emptied them
Wish I’d of known 🤣🤣
We were up to everything in my local arcade/snooker club
Swapping the gamble button for collect
Foam from the stools pushed up the payout part
I remember the Tetris cab ,you could flick on and off and knocked it onto free play
And obviously the strimmer wire
Not really Glenn 🤣
Bloke I worked with had the nudge gambler for years in his house unused, I bought the twin screen digital one to put in a mates "home pub" we all went round during Covid thinking I would make a few quid , didn't work out so well, I was £30 down after a year and £70 down by the last count!!
When I picked up one of my Centi cabs it was being stored at a Fruit Machine collectors place, his collection of fruits was nearly as impressive as his house, he must have had about 50 fruits in the hallway, full size snooker table in one of the many reception rooms downstairs and others were also full of fruits, staircase was stunning with a lift to the left he was a real nice guy, not some posh country dude just down to earth nice guy who showed me all his amazing collection while I was there, then I was late getting to work, one of my best days collecting a cab
he was a real nice guy, not some posh country dude just down to earth nice guy who showed me all his amazing collection while I was there, then I was late getting to work, one of my best days collecting a cab