Fruit Machine Chat

I can categorically assure you that it was possible to win £80.00 out of a Concentration over time. I have no doubt that a bank of £80.00 could be built up. That wasnt my problem - it is the "80 pound coins" element of the story that I was seeking confirmation on. Apologies if my reply so...

Good post. Nice to have another old schooler on here. The lad from King's Lynn was probably Pete or could have been me. I moved about an awful lot back then. The name Pete rings a bell. The first time I met him, we had followed him around Lynn. It was like a desert! Very impressive stuff. Just reme...

Welcome Tonka. Good to have another established and experienced player join the board. I was only 7 in January 1986 and really started playing in about late 1996 - the first machine I played was, I think, JPM Monopoly with the "move back three" feature / idiosyncrasy. I've not met any of ...

Quiz Master was certainly a good machine. You could control the win scores yourself. Pitch all 10 scores around 40k and it was out of the range of ordinary punters, and would save all the pay-out money for yourself. This was a feature that wasn't repeated with any subsequent machines. Give us a Bre...

It is definitely my view that pubs have softened in their attitude to people winning. This could be because as most of the working machines are in chain pubs they couldn't give a s**t. In the old days I've had the machine unplugged on me mid game, been threatened with a rottweiler and been held up a...

Punters still playing DOND in their droves. No lessening of play in my opinion. Top boys capable at anything sub 70,000 now. Which is why it sits shit so often. Endgame not bent. This is very true. Not a "top boy" but have seen this gradual increase in the target over time. However I unde...

I have never met Eric but Trevor Montague wrote the Quiz Machine players bibles "The Daily Telegraph A-Z of just about everything". He is also one of the organisers of the British Quiz Championships. I can categorically assure you that it was possible to win £80.00 out of a Concentration o...

Good morning people. I stumbled across this site the other day and thought I'd register to share a few experiences of Quiz Machining over the last 23 years. I played my first machine on January 29th 1986. (I know the date because it was the day the Challenger space shuttle blew up!) At the time ther...