Fruit Machine Chat

Please don't take offence from this post but I'm not much of a hardcore player, more a part time player!

I am off to Blackpool for a few days and was wondering which would be the best machines to play and if any offered better payout for the more casual player?

Thanks very much in advance for any help

Richard

You won't win much in Blackpool. The town is full of robbing gypsy bastard arcade owners, not an ounce of morality in them.

and lets not forget about the 15 players that sit on coral island all day who wait around n wait 4 a pound 2 go jackpoteers so they can re do it

Would rather have route canal treatment than gamble in Blackpool nowadays, less painfull.

recallrich wrote:Please don't take offence from this post but I'm not much of a hardcore player, more a part time player!

I am off to Blackpool for a few days and was wondering which would be the best machines to play and if any offered better payout for the more casual player?

Thanks very much in advance for any help

Richard

Take a Bucket and Spade. Hope this helps

from a blackpool resident........DONT GAMBLE, more chavs, gypsys, snipers than you can shake a stick at, stick to the pubs when the stag parties are in there!

I stayed there a few nights at supposedly peak period ie. Main Summer Hols, and every hotel had vacancies. This would have been unheard of 20 years ago. I think the majority of Britain have sussed out what a stinking conning rip-off Sink-Hole of a Town it really is!

I went there several years back now when they had the Blackpool illuminations on. We set out in the late morning from The Midlands and had a right bloomin' blimin' session down the M6 that was fruitful. We arrived early evening at Blackpool and drove down the front, amongst some sort of cruisin' type show off your car type thingy. The lights/illuminations were ok, but once you've seen one light, you've seen 'em all. The main hotels were fully booked and we landed up in this cheap guesthouse. Pleasant enough proprietor, but cheap and cheerful probably ain't quite the words to use. Bearing in mind this is what?! November or whenever it is, there was a lovely big crack on the window, the bed sloped at a fantastically stupendiously Pepsi Big one 45 degree angle so I literally crushed my other half, squishing her into a pulp. The wash facilities? Smallest wash basin in the world with one freekin' cold tap.
There was more luxury inside Lukestar's Nova GTi 1.1 than this place. Still, it beat sleeping on the street just about and we moved on after the one night. The breakfast was alright. I mean a fry up is a fry up is it not? BIG COMPLAINT: There was a bit of old tomato skin congealed on my fork when the food arrived....come ON who was doing the washing up there?!? Nothing like a bit of lard though to set you up for a day of fruity streaking.

What sort of machines were around? Well, I remember a 2p Body parts, 2penny nudgers, Homer's Meltdown (£25), High 'n Mighty the latest hi-techs. Had jackpot on both. Homer's on Turnabout - no streak and Mighty on that hi/lo featurey thing. You know the one, usually pays around £12, but I fluked a jackpot. £15 or whatever on a 2, lo for the one step to jackpot.

Loads of £5 machines, loads and loads of 'em. No section slitheens back then. So it was all Bar-Xs et al. Better than Sarfend at the time - or was it? I only visited the once. Made loads more on the motorway. Plenty of hits and misses. Worse one was about £30 into a full up Monty Pythons Flying Circus £5 jackpot. Dead at start, dead at finish. Something fishy, took £2 and left it, it just kept killing every 2nd go. Something dodgy there in that 007 arcade. Suspicious. Coral Island was the most garish place in the world but kind of like a mecca for a fruit blooper. Hi-techs were wuite good in there I remember. Must be plenty of muntling play. Snipers were spotted. The usual assortment of kids who you want to punch full on in the face and swear at. First night there adjusted to the 70% payouts, got mildly shafted and went out in T-shirt and jeans feeling rather over dressed....JEeeezuz I'd left my shell suit at home innit? Also I'd put aftershave on......feck that, a nice bit of body odour would have done the trick. Every pub had the same soundtrack. Fill me up Buttercup, Come up and see me, Come on Irene. Dexys, Cockney Rebel then Jeff Beck Hi/Lo, sorry Hi/Ho Silver Lining playing over and over. Stag do, hen do, doggy do on the pier. Fruit machines every feckin' where.
The next day I one back the Pythonesque dead parrot machine money and we made about I reckon £60 profit in the arcades. I'd pity trying to make money there day in, day out. Sure you'd have good days, but low % and stiff competition would grind you. Plenty of crap advice from the locals. £8 Triv. £8 Pie. The original Cleudo? M1a heaven. 2penny nutcracker, a Miss Pacman video game. Cash Explosion BFM. That was just one arcade. It becomes not a makey money tour, but a walk down memory lane. A fruity head will love some of the older stuff, but sadly those of you mid 30s and above will be disapointed. There will be no pre system 80, MPU3 malarky. Maybe a few gems. It's nice to lose a few quid and be entertained.

We went around The Pleasure Beach which is worth a visit and will take best part of a day if you want to go on every blimin' thing. The Tower we didn't do as we've both been up the Eiffel Tower and I went into 'tight mode' - she'll argue I'm always in that mode and refused to pay £30 for us both to walk up to the top of the tower. What a miser.

It was an ok weeked out. Obviously all about chucking your money in old gambling machines and getting lairy and pissified. It's pure trash, but it doesn't pretend to be anything else, so just enjoy it for a couple of days and don't get too hung up on making money there. I had a bit of luck, bit of timing, adjust to the 70% skankiness and you'll be in there.

In the services it was all about Wildfire, Hypnotic, Bonkers, Cop The Lot, Mighty and High, Rogan Dosh, Iceberg or whatever it was called. Them kind of games - get the picture? Oh yeah, that Speed Demon one, post Viper Jive when Extemes were Extremes. Maybe some Vamps, Pies and Meltdowns still floating about. Red-X £5 in Keele. Who cares? Sorry.

What was this thread about again?

Thanks for all the comments about Blackpool! Just to let you know all I got was one bloody jackpot out of "cock a doodle dough" at the pleasure beach, and a couple of quid out of "the mob" lol.

Too many chavs trying to watch what you are up to so they can try to get your cash when you walk away! and how many times did the machines not pay out properly? a pound too few or not giving credites but eating your pound coin!

Everyone who said they are thieving bastards are correct and I salute you for leting everyone know! I will add my voice to them!

Thanks again

Richy