Where itBoxes go to die...

Topical2009 · Post by **Topical2009** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:10 pm

Quiet round this part of the internet, isn't it?

Anyway, this may be old news to everyone else, but I haven't been in a bookies since Desert Orchid was winning races, so my eye was caught by this picture from yesterday's Guardian, apparently revealing where all those vanished cabinets have washed up. Not a total surprise, of course, as I've been caught out a couple of times by Paragon cabinets which turned out to have been re-programmed as fruities. I wonder if the same fate ultimately awaits all of them?

Roll_With_It_Russ · Post by **Roll_With_It_Russ** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:06 pm

Itbox had produced the Fixed odds games in the same cabinet for bookies years ago, they got some in a few shops with the big 3 and some independants, in the end though they could not develop newer software and create newer terminals as fast as the competition.

eddiesdad · Post by **eddiesdad** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:17 pm

itboxes were first designed for the bookies.they became awps later,hence the poor internal layout.

Roll_With_It_Russ · Post by **Roll_With_It_Russ** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:31 pm

First place I saw them where in pubs, thats before terminals took off in bookies.

Had games like strike it rich etc and other quiz games, jacpots where £20-£40 I think

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:05 pm

This is an old picture (bad journalism again). William Hill used ITBoxes as FOBTs in the early/mid 2000s. All Hills have Inspired Gaming units now.