Fruit Machine Chat

No matter where we stand in the game we all had an influence and trainer , so who was the very first player .

I'm afraid ur wrong there Darr.....erm Stakechanger, I started when I was about 6 on Walton Pier where my parents had a beach hut!

Took me a long while to realise there was money in the game tho!!

Not till mid-late teens.

I'm 37 now but only stopped. Working in my mid 20's.

Years of working and scraping together earnings/pocket money only to brain out every week!!

It's just me on this thread isn't it?

Nobody else cares. In fact nobody else really posts anymore do they?

Even extreme Scott made a one off post just to stay a member and he was a regular.

Where's the regulars?? What happened to them all?

I'm even starting to miss Traildrops irritating,,,,,,,,,,,, everywhere.

What,,,,,,,, is,,,,,,, going,,,,,,,,on???

What happened to BGM and Sir Rat? Sir Rat made a comeback for a while but only briefly.where have they gone?

The first player I met was John from Dumfries when I was about 3.

He was doing the £1 shuffles.

Sir rath won't be coming back on here! He got bored of the bragging/bickering, I imagine a lot of people did tbh!

Who knows who the first player was ever, it's impossible to work out and uninteresting, probably some old man on a 2p jp machine or something!

The old one arm bandits were beatable because of the way the handle pull affected where the reels stopped. So at least seventy years ago.

Bell fruit was developed from making cash registers , a similar concept.

Can't you just post as Glendale? Anyway it's a fair enough thread to strike up conversation and I think the regulars have gone the same places as all the old school playables. Even Jackpotty is relatively quiet and it is a reflection of how dire the game is at the minute. It feels way more like gambling these days. No security of 'if it's going, you're onto a 95%+ winner'. More like, 'oh my Goodness, I do hope this compensated B3 doesn't want £1000+ to kick into life'
At the minute I have been squeezed into a corner. Machine X is practically dead and buried. I lost my last workable location a while back and of the very rare few remaining, there is too much mega heat/hassle to play.
I have a couple of bits that are not conventional stuff that are a mixed bag to play. You grind a profit but one can be unpredictable and the other can feel like tedious slog if it is not playing ball.
I've got a small handful of legacy stuff, by which I mean well known, most probably dead stuff such as flocker flacker fleckers and Mega Mists etc
Most modern hi techs seem to have levelled off the player advantage. There are no rips or tells that we can see and if you have casual fruit dozers in the vicinity they'll row it to the value mega as well as you and then it's only the % that wins.
The £100 increase may bring about new faults, but as has been stated the stakes are the same this time and fault fixing and fire are at all time high levels. If you're one of the lucky/gifted/bent few who get good info early, all well and good but it's not sustainable or even profitable for the vast majority.
People only sing when they're winning. The last few scraps must be viciously defended. Previously we may joke about Bik rowing out the flicker in The Highcross until it stopped boarding. We'd be fondly chuckling as we played numerous Electros around Evington, Oadby, Glendale...no sorry Glenfield, Narborough, Wigston etc
But now, the flicker in The Highcross is THE ROUTE, such is the sparsity of playable stuff. We don't want to post about it as that £2 a day needs to be protected. It's a silly example but in essence it's part of the reason for quietness. Posting a fun and detailed 'my day' could be your undoing. The only ones posting are the casuals on potty, posting about forcing mega deals for GATW etc and even they are in short supply as casuals come and go. They ride their initial luck, then get chewed up, pissed off, brain out, stop posting for six months.
As for Sir Rat, I don't believe he stopped posting due to bragging. I don't believe that for one second. If a few doughnuts want to create multiple accounts and make up fake nonsense, who really gives? Sir Rat stopped posting as his £700 days on prime 2009 pub stuff became £70 days, became £7 days and who really wants to post about making £7? Yes there's still the odd beacon of hope, but its much harder. Apart from a stale thread or two chewing the obvious, what is there to say? People as a whole only tell losing stories to vent anger and winning stories only come from casuals or careless pros and the former are mostly on Jackpotty and the latter are in McDonalds behind the counter.
I'm only here as I'm without a car today, not in work. So here I am typing away, my fingertips padding on the iPad screen like the raindrops outside padding on the windows. There's a Pure Pots ultra on 229 silver 85 bronze 500 gold, but is it even +EV?

As for the first 'player'? Well mechanical 'rips' on the Liberty Bell aside, I'd say the first games I knew of to attract players would be the first compensated MPU stuff. Of course it was more niche but it was there. My first emptier was coconut shy on Fairground. I've only ever worked out one emptier completely by myself, that was p1 wiyb. Good one! My favourite and most profitable emptier was machine X. Such a pity to be using past tense there. Anyway, enough waffle. It gives BFK something to read and if Titchno comes back from a road trip as least he has something to read if he takes a big dump and there is no other suitable reading matter.

nothing to add really , george sums up how desperate it really is out there in fruitland ,,,,,,,,

the desperation and general low morale leads to bitterness , which is reflected in recent posts , this site has become a breeding ground for ridicule

ya cant even write a movie review without it being scrutinised word for word by someone with an antagonistic axe to grind ,turning it into a slagging match ffs ,,,,, so why bother etc ?

better to talk in either vip or pm


oh and bfk m8 , these are all for you bud ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I remember once when I was 10 or 11 down the local arcades, in early december.

It was about half nine and I had to be in at ten, but I had done my bus fare trying to win an extra 30p for some chips, and didn't want to walk home because it was pissing down with rain. Some bloke put a £1 coin in an Each Way Nudger mk2, and after a few spins he got melons off nudges. As old school players will remember it kicks the money straight out as they didn't have a bank. I hung around knowing there was a chance he would forget about the credits he had left and just walk off, which he duly did.

I ambled over and pretended to put coins in, just for authenticity, and then proceeded to spin the credits off, praying for nudges or a win I could gamble up to 40p so I could get the bus and make it home on time, anything to avoid walking home in the rain. I was down to my last 2 credits and was becoming increasingly agitated, when I pressed start and there was that little pause you get when you've gone so long without a win that the machine takes pity on you by spinning in a pair of something for 10p.

2 Oranges.

I took a deep breath and hit the gamble button, using my thumb, as most established Each Way Nudger players did back in the day.



20p....



I kept my thumb on the gamble button. Now did I attempt to skip the gamble to 40p, or let it go and use brute force? I could see the rain lashing down outside, some old girl danced past the door with her umbrella practically inside out. Just one gamble I told myself, and then i'll be on that bus, in the warm, and home. I took my hand off the button and, with excessive force I bashed the gamble button and to my delight my ears were treated once more to that sonic delight the machine emits when you win the gamble.

'Get in there, thank fuck for that' I muttered under my breath...




.... Now I swear to anybody I was 100% intent on collecting that money and heading for the exit, right up to the split second someone walked past with a portion of chips from 'The Flipper' Fish and Chip shop. One even fell off the tray and landed, almost in slow-motion, next to my foot. Sure getting the bus home was a luxury in itself under the circumstances, but a bus home..... and some chips...

The gamble music was now getting increasingly high pitched and rapid, and the way the lights fluctuated between 'double' and 'nothing' was almost mesmerising. I stood there, heart beat somewhat elevated, and perhaps without due consideration struck the gamble button once more....




Nothing.



Nothing, except that horrible noise that sounded like some sort of digital car crash with a 'ding' on the end. I stood there, almost in shock, my dreams of the bus home, with chips, in tatters. I was angry, but more at myself and my sheer greed than with the machine. I played off my last credit and turned to leave, utterly crestfallen. I even put the hood up on my Champion hooded top and pulled it tight over my head as I prepared to face the elements.


But wait.... what's that sound?


It's the nudge jingle!

Nudges are going to save the day I thought to myself, and I spun round to see what win was realistically achieveable from the reel positions. Well it was 3 down for pears, but the pear was on reel 3 so I needed all 3 nudges to get any win at all. 80p they were worth.


I inhaled sharply, closed my eyes and bashed the nudge down button. I could tell straight away from the length of time it took to stack the nudges up that I had one nudge. I felt sick, as though I was being laughed at by the machine, so I gave it a bit of a shove. An ashtray fell off the top of the machine which earned me an admonishment from a floor walker just to pile on the misery.


I vividly remember telling myself, as the wind-lashed rain swept into my face on my 2.5 mile walk home, that never again would I let myself get into such a sorry situation again.



24 hours later I was stood waiting for an attendant to disappear out of site so I could kick some 10p's off one of the pushers.

now that's a good post rich m8 ,,,,,,,, we've all been there

One of the best on here!

My, my. I think the first player has to be me! I have not seen another player in my entire life.