25 years on

tonkarentino · Post by **tonkarentino** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:11 pm

QuizMaster wrote:If you were old and lucky enough to remember GUAB and you didn't find it easy, you shouldn't be on this board. In terms of SWP's over the last 25 years, this was the equivalent of learning to boil an egg for chefs, i.e. the first step towards greater challenges and skills.

I heartily concur. GUAB 1 even had the prize differentials on view so at an instant you could see whether it was good for really easy money. The programmes were so small though that you could easily learn over a short period of time.

Remember going up and down the M5 to service stations which all had GUAB 3 and just cleaning up. The only time they became difficult was when you got into GUAB 12 plus because there weren't many around to learn.

Personally I preferred QMs and it's children (the one that annoyingly played "Congratulations" when you won Blockbuster, Breakthru and my personal fave Fruit Machine) Remember being in Birmingham and being distraught because 6 Fruit Machines had been replaced by the original Adders and Ladders which was nigh on impossible to win on. We thought the world had ended and then they made A and L easier to empty. I can only assume someone had reported the makers to the authorities on the grounds that it wasn't doable.
That saw me through until Touchscreen technology and Monopoly (unchipped 10 move) **sigh** and Cluedo Mark 1

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:23 pm

tonkarentino wrote:Remember being in Birmingham and being distraught because 6 Fruit Machines had been replaced by the original Adders and Ladders which was nigh on impossible to win on.

The one which didn't show dice rolls? I didn't find that difficult at all, just keep answering. Great change in my book, because much as I liked both of them, FM would eventually go to ? mode, where all the prizes were mystery (not much mystery about it, the jp was always 70p) whereas A&L was guaranteed money. In fact I preferred the non-dice roll A&L in city centres because they wouldn't empty after a tenner.. Supernudger was great fun btw.

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:33 pm

I remember being a teenager and watching a tall bloke with blonde hair empty one in a arcade in Doncaster

Sakpi · Post by **Sakpi** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:48 pm

What was the name of the game where you could play as 4 people , moved around a board then guessed the last answer - hoping for a six - bingo ! possibly 4 x jackpots in one game . If you didn't see it , you wouldn't believe it .

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:21 am

Ludo Quiz I think

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:15 am

Im sure you are right.That was a very good game.So was Bingo Challenge.

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:12 pm

Ludo Quiz was a Coinmaster machine that was properly emptiable (probably not intentionally so) which is maybe why they never became numerous or seemed to last very long.

You had to manipulate it so you finished with the counter on the last square before the money and then hold down a random button. It was only 3-way answers so you had a 1/3 chance of hitting the jackpot each time you set this up. It wasn’t very hard especially since Coinmaster were still using a lot of the core question set they had been using for years. In some ways it was not a dissimilar game play exploit to Monopoly a couple of years later.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:25 pm

Bingo Challenge was the one where you had to come equipped with lots of 10ps or 20ps to exploit a bug? Forgotten exactly what the bug was though!

Sakpi · Post by **Sakpi** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:21 pm

Yes , thanks to all involved . Ludo .
I might even sleep tonight !
P.S . How often does " Cops and robbers " go berserk and start throwing up £1 coins onto the trail ?
I've seen it once in 4 months .

paragoon · Post by **paragoon** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:12 pm

Sakpi wrote:Yes , thanks to all involved . Ludo .
I might even sleep tonight !
P.S . How often does " Cops and robbers " go berserk and start throwing up £1 coins onto the trail ?
I've seen it once in 4 months .

Not that often. The Daleks sometimes do it too.

Sakpi · Post by **Sakpi** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:39 pm

Thanks , it was just a bit of a shock for me to suddenly see them pop up , like getting Super Sonar on " Battleships " and finding all the enemy .

kidgloves · Post by **kidgloves** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:15 am

I cut my teeth on DLT's Treble Top - easy question set for £20 when it wanted to pay.
Also enjoyed 10 quid grid and a game called Crazy Maze where you prize game involved you hoovering up some cash values around a maze Pacman stylie.

cool · Post by **cool** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:58 pm

I hated treble top but the dynamic local duo Dave and Tom had the local area under control

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:43 pm

cool wrote:I hated treble top but the dynamic local duo Dave and Tom had the local area under control

On off??? Lots of players appeared to play well.

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:07 pm

Properpro wrote:
cool wrote:I hated treble top but the dynamic local duo Dave and Tom had the local area under control
On off??? Lots of players appeared to play well.

Since plugging is obviously illegal it isn't really anything to brag about on here.