Fruit Machine Chat

Sceptre Leisure, 2nd largest UK operator have just sold out to the Germans ... changing times ahead!

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/busi ... -1-7112442

ICE show starts tomorrow at London Excel, free entry , look forward to this one every year!

Expected to be 16th Jan, week before EAG 2014 expo!

Easy fix that.. the wires that go to the back of the white door switch are on the wrong connections, there will be either 6 or 8 spade connections on the back of the switch door , only 2 are used for the alarm.. jleave the outer connection where it is and just move the inner one to one of the other ...

The reason club machines have dried up on ebay is because of he changes in tax, from 1st of Feb 2013 there is no longer any AMLD tax to pay on club machines which was previously around £2000 a year, now operators can site them and just pay 20% tax on the takings , so makes sense to site as many as t...

Covers every machine that pays out a prize bigger than the price of play Gary yes , 20% of the profit from 1st Feb goes to HMRC , if the stake is 10p or less then its 5% (cat d machines) ... so no reason why the pubs/clubs/arcades won't all fill their allowance of machines now the AMLD tax has gone ...

[quote="jeffvickers"] Its a shame a company like Empire Games cannot pull their fingers out of their arse and bring out something decent, though I expect the big firms hold the patents to all the old stuff, so maybe their hands are tied. Their hands are tied jeff , Novomatic already own Em...

Novomatic (Huge Austrian company who own Astra) have just aquired Bellfruit and Gamestec ... the whole buisness is going to change over the next 12 months , formal announcement to be made later this week !

EAG london, good show

The decision to stop making reels machines was no doubt already made when Scientific Games (Billion dollar American company who own Global Draw and Games media/juice) bought Barcrest for £35 million in 2011 , Scientific are not interested in reels machines, not enough money to be made in UK manufact...

Both Voodoo Games and Red were bought out by Barcrest so their gone as well now, the price of a new Bellfruit has just gone up i suspect !

News Flash - its finally the end of the road for the Barcrest analogue Scientific Games Corporation today announced that its Gaming division, which includes The Global Draw, Barcrest and Games Media, has decided to withdraw from the manufacture of analogue AWPs for the UK pub retail sector in order ...

could of done a lot of damage to that pencil

Just found these clips on youtube , will make you chuckle! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PpZO3X3Mw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJA6Rtv-QBE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyBB68pkk7M&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GMS-cDvU8&feature=related Come on 4

Sceptre have just taken over the contract to supply , so its out with the new and in with the old !