25 years on

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:52 pm

agreed.

i was moby on pernod and blacks a short time before my third half dozen(both drinks and years) and ruined a perfectly good pair of farahs into the bargain ....not touched a pernod since.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:14 pm

A pal of mine technicolor-yodelled a litre bottle of Archers in his back room after we'd won two of them at a quiz night (to keep it slightly on topic!) the smell of peaches is something I can't ever quite handle now.

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:10 pm

Bee-line!

( I think it was called ) with a bumble bee and honey combs on it? Bell Fruit I want to say?

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:08 pm

MI Spy. Which holds a personal record for me.

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:20 pm

Special brew is now a no no after spewing and so is mad dog 2020, although not sure if they still make it now?

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:59 pm

i regurgitated plenty of md20/20 back in the day ,but more often it was thunderbird..the stronger version,i so used to love it when the room started spinning on that stuff.

paragoon · Post by **paragoon** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:28 pm

zyx :P

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:01 pm

Strike it Rich!

And even though annoying now, great game show.

Sakpi · Post by **Sakpi** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:11 am

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 any score over 46,000 reset the limit for £10 back to the minimum- 12,000 ? so the skill was getting to 45,000 ish and stopping . QT 2 and 3 were tougher .
Thinking back , there was one called Mastermind in a pub near Leicester Square early 1985 . Only one I ever saw and crap .
For GUAB s I used to fly to Jersey once a month . The company used it as a test ground for new programmes which then hit London about 6 weeks later . 4 days intensive play ( and lots of Mary Ann)
later I knew every answer on the " new " London machines .

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:45 am

I like the Jersey anecdote. One question though- how did you actually find this out. Was it a chance observation whilst on holiday or was it well known amongst the pro community?

Sakpi · Post by **Sakpi** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:23 am

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 bitter and was given a " passport " listing every Mary Ann pub on the island . The idea is that you get a stamp in each pub and get free drinks or food when the passport is full .
Every pub in this " Bible " had a GUAB , either a 9 ( quite new in London ) or a 10 ( unseen )
After a bad ferry journey back , I decided to fly in future . I did tell a few other pros but don't know if any went

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:16 am

I got into playing them for a living after watching a pro player do a GUAB at Euston around the summer of 1986. He gave me a few invaluable tips and I've never looked back since.

And it's miles easier now to make dough than it was then.

Sakpi · Post by **Sakpi** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:34 am

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 !!

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:23 am

Could have been '87. It was the one in the cafe. It's a Burger King now.

cool · Post by **cool** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:39 pm

quizmasters claim that it is miles easier to make money now then then is total unmitigated bollocks!

If it were true why then are there far fewer serious players around now?
The potential to make money was greater then although not always realised.
The turnover of games excluding GUAB was slower then now
Games had less protection therefore easier to exploit
Far more food places had them
Games filled up more quickly as more people played them and there was only one game on a terminal so people had no choice

someone organise a vote quick Cool v Quizmaster who is right?

Of course there is the occasional money making gem every now and then now but rarely.......