Fruit Machine Chat

I dont know why, but yesterday the name just popped into my head. Round our way, there used to be a fair few BWBs about and i remember them as being pretty good. Did they have something to do with Barcrest?

evry BWB was a clone of a barcrest!

But were they actually connected to Barcrest? What did BWB stand for?

Might see what Players Heaven team have to say.

fuck noes mate, they musta been

HornyNick wrote:But were they actually connected to Barcrest? What did BWB stand for?

Bonner, Willson, and Bonner - The blokes who set up the company.
Bonner and Bonner were Father and Son. Company was sold to Barcrest, and in time became Vivid.

Still owned by Barcrest.

bigwankbandit :P

was'nt fire and ice BWB? not seen these about for years now, but i'm sure i've seen an arabian knights in an arcade that had BWB as the jackpot symbols even though its a crest.

your eyes were not deceiving you scot ,,,,, but the bwb logo 'd version played shit in comparison, always cost more to get jp and never streakd as often

oh ok, never pushed one myself.

Extreme Eddie wrote:was'nt fire and ice BWB? not seen these about for years now, but i'm sure i've seen an arabian knights in an arcade that had BWB as the jackpot symbols even though its a crest.

Yep, it was..

as were the clones, including Heaven and Hell. I used to like Volcano and the one I think they called Pyramid. Red sky at night, players delight ...

There used to be a re-worked Arabian Knights in the arcade near Dartford station, as I'm sure someone over that way will remember.

Whilst they did make some cracking machines, some of the £5JP's they made were utterly shit, the main offender being championship soccer.

Although saying that the £5 PCB where the cherries were 20p more than made up for it, in my opinion the BB/frenzy/PCB games where the lowest win was £1 made them completely unplayable.

20P cherry win PCB jackpot + 3 reps "7 stepper next"

taxi start- lovleyyyyyy

They were licenced to do re-builds for Barcrest.

i have fond memories of bwbs ,in the golden days (olden days)used to love the gamble from 4p to 1.50 lol.
10 pound challenge (swp chase the lady) was superb for profit for the first 12 months. used to get up to 30 quid from these regually.(yarmouth had 13 of these)
a machine on site test in felixstowes carousel in the mid to late 80s ,called secrets. it advertised that it had secret tricks built in(ironically) that improved the players chances of winning about 11 of these "tricks" but i can no longer recall exactly. anyway, you could "exchange" a cherry 20p win for a skillcash to jp (slow to med speed ) you could force cherries aswell ,we didnt care about leaving any money in it ,and got greedy,thus it never passed site test

bwb used to rock.

Pyramid. Red sky at night, players delight ...



Thats the one!!! That machine was the dogs bollocks!!