Fruit Machine Chat

This article is taken from Coinslot April 13th- April 19th 2007, No. 1998. The article is located on Pg 8, and was written by Coinslot and investigated by Alex Lee.

For the full story PM me, as i will not write the full article here without permission from Coinslot.


‘The industry and Ebay’

Ebay, the world-renowned internet auction site, which boasts a global customer base of 181m, six million new listings per day and annual net revenues of over $4.5bn, offers a missed bunch of products and services related to the coin- op industry- including how to ‘cheat the system’. Alex Lee investigates

Cheat sheet
Online Auctions

For the technophobes and internet sceptics among you, http://www.ebay.co.uk is the premier online auction site that allows people to buy and sell almost anything. Coinslot took a look at what was on offer relating to the gaming and gambling industry and uncovered some surprising items. Type in ‘fruit machine’ in the search criteria and over 400 results are displayed.

Machines ranging from 1p (a JPM Indiana Jones machine with £10 jackpot, set on 20p play) to a vintage one-armed bandit game entitled Mad Money Handout on offer for a princely £450 o.n.o. can be bought from the site.



More info is available in that article about selling machines, cheating, dvds, books etc.

If FruitChat mods feel that this article should be deleated please feel free to delete.

Have you finished my layouts yet?

Have you finished my layouts yet?

Er, tangent!

I assume the rest of the article goes on to talk about the legality of the whole thing?

I did see that 'Crest came down on someone who was creating simulators of their £500 machines, purely for using their graphics (which, they are in more than their own right to do!)

Would be interesting to read the rest if you wouldn't miind dropping it to me? Wise move not to 'cut 'n' paste' to here though, as you rightly state!

Matt Vinyl wrote:

Have you finished my layouts yet?

I did see that 'Crest came down on someone who was creating simulators of their £500 machines, purely for using their graphics (which, they are in more than their own right to do!)

Was that the guy who came up with the rainbow riches and elvis simulator??

Yup.

The suggestion would be; put together the same game but change the graphics to something of his own. You're effectively playing the same game, but no-one will be knocking on your door to feel your collar!

(Bearing in mind this is only true because he wrote the software himself - that's the difference between a simulator and an emulator)

Step up Mr 'F'ruit 'M'achine 'W'orld, seeing as you were specifically mentioned in this article

TheMission wrote:Step up Mr 'F'ruit 'M'achine 'W'orld, seeing as you were specifically mentioned in this article

He was selling MFME 9.4 on ebay the day after it was leaked