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The good old days

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:49 am
by megastreaker
I remember being at Uni is 2005 and they had a fools and horses machine. It was just a fun machine to play with. You'd so around the board and there was this one square that you would land on which was Delboys car. The car would drive and stop where it chose to. Sometimes it would go all the way for a £6 jackpot. This would pay out in tokens and we'd spend it on beers behind the bar. They also had a roller coaster one. There was this feature called nemesis which seemed like a mega streak in todays terms.

Happy days. anyone else got any stories to remenis about?

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:15 am
by gambogaz1
The main thing I miss are the machines that had JP features right near the beginning.
Money to burn had Hells bells 2nd square in.
Its a knockout had mini marathon 3rd square in.
On the buses had The big apple 2nd feature up.
Dr Who Timelord had the tardis 2nd square.

Or half way up the board

Rollercoaster had test your strength
Snakes & Ladders had sands of time.

Re: The good old days

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:17 am
by Scott
megastreaker wrote:I remember being at Uni is 2005 and they had a fools and horses machine. It was just a fun machine to play with. You'd so around the board and there was this one square that you would land on which was Delboys car. The car would drive and stop where it chose to. Sometimes it would go all the way for a £6 jackpot. This would pay out in tokens and we'd spend it on beers behind the bar. They also had a roller coaster one. There was this feature called nemesis which seemed like a mega streak in todays terms.

Happy days. anyone else got any stories to remenis about?

i did'nt realise tokens were still about in 2005 :shock: ???

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:21 am
by megastreaker
Back in 1995 they were.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:47 am
by theoak
So they were tokens in 2005, back in 1995?

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:07 am
by mattrick
gambogaz1 wrote:The main thing I miss are the machines that had JP features right near the beginning.
Money to burn had Hells bells 2nd square in.
Its a knockout had mini marathon 3rd square in.
On the buses had The big apple 2nd feature up.
Dr Who Timelord had the tardis 2nd square.

Or half way up the board

Rollercoaster had test your strength
Snakes & Ladders had sands of time.
And indiana jones had????

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:11 am
by gambogaz1
Leap of faith ?

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:39 am
by megastreaker
Ok Ok Ok so I made a mistake you know I meant 1995 not 2005

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:30 pm
by Scott
used too have a cat and mouse themed game in my local about 12 years back that when you got the jackpot it gave you a choice of the £6 in tokens a wrist watch or a little carriage clock, anyone else remember this??

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:33 pm
by theoak
haha; were you born in 1945?

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:43 pm
by Scott
during the war :lol: its just the only one i've seen like this, i'd have thought someone on here has come across this [the older players]

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:48 pm
by gambogaz1
I've seen 1 similar to this but a bit more recent.
Can't think of the name of the machine. When you got on a board you could either play the normal feature board adding cash and features and when you got 3 super symbols you could hi/lo along a trail. Or you could play the other way by going straight on the trail but have police chasing you ?
Anyway when you got Jackpot you could either take the cash or get a voucher and you needed 3 vouchers for a mobile phone or watch.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:52 pm
by Scott
my mate gave one of the little carriage clocks too his mum for mothers day [tight c*nt :lol: ] and it kept good time for years, the wrist watches were'nt much cop though.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:10 pm
by theoak
lol@"kept good time". my little casio with a calculator on my wrist kept good time too! :lol:

there were a few cat or mouse type machines, one was quite well known at the time i think, please help me with the name, (have have even BEEN cops and robbers) you're the robber, police chasing you, number in middle i THINK turned red when the police had a move. Had a rare IM mode and a barcode, its probably even emulated now.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:20 pm
by spa
Extreme Eddie wrote:used too have a cat and mouse themed game in my local about 12 years back that when you got the jackpot it gave you a choice of the £6 in tokens a wrist watch or a little carriage clock, anyone else remember this??
Yep, Prize versions. A fair few old Barcrests had them. Think there are some emulated aswell, although you don't get the Prize lol. There are prize roms about anyways :)

Go right back to some old pcps. Cash Attraction and Nudge Money could be had off the second feature. That was also pretty much the only way you'd get it too so they were always good earners for me as a kid. Could easily make £1-£1.50 each day just off those lol!