Fruit Machine Chat

I'm sure many of us have anecdotes which to outsiders would not be that funny , but we would appreciate . Two probably not very good but true examples . My then girlfriend and I checked into a hotel outside Norwich ( ? The Two Bears ? ) and the very stern lady asked " are you married ?" . ...

Thanks , it was just a bit of a shock for me to suddenly see them pop up , like getting Super Sonar on " Battleships " and finding all the enemy .

Yes , thanks to all involved . Ludo .
I might even sleep tonight !
P.S . How often does " Cops and robbers " go berserk and start throwing up £1 coins onto the trail ?
I've seen it once in 4 months .

What was the name of the game where you could play as 4 people , moved around a board then guessed the last answer - hoping for a six - bingo ! possibly 4 x jackpots in one game . If you didn't see it , you wouldn't believe it .

From memory there were 4 GUAB 7 's round Euston at that time . One in the pub to the left ; one to the right ; one in the cafe and the last in the bar upstairs .Lovely little run !
Hold on , that might have been 1987 !!

My cousin lives there and came over to visit family . We went to a pub & he saw a GUAB . He said there were 100's on Jersey ( not quite true ) so I took a ferry over the next week . First pub , GUAB , green screen - so not a 7 or 8 . Turned out tobe a 10 . Bought a pint of excellent Mary Ann bit...

Early/mid 1985 , a few pubs had toaster sized quiz machines for fun , which we used to play . Then QM1 came out - same questions but £10 max win . " Flying Horse " QM was rare , thank God , never got the hang of that .QM2 was OK but short-lived . Then was Question Time , same as QM , but a...

I played " Monopoly " last night - for fun - reached the cash round , got 50p Machine said " You win 50p " . My nephew , a £500 an hour London Barrister said that receiving 50p for a 50p investment did not constitute a win . When he saw that I could not even collect the 50p , onl...

Whatever happened to Sloane ?

I'm just dabbling at the moment , so no competition . Even if I did go back full time my liver would never forgive me .
Signing off for the week ,
Mike

Humblest apologies , I did not mean to belittle the efforts of todays players .I have been out of the loop for many years and have very little experience of modern machines . I do , however , find it difficult to see how a player could achieve profits of £500 + in a day on todays machines . A full Q...

I don't think there will ever be professionals like there were in the late 80's. From 1986 to 1990/ 91 £200 was a bad day - after expenses . Once the silly , random " skill " features were introduced and stopper questions arranged in sequence consistent heavy wins on machines became all bu...