Whatever happened to BWB?

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:33 pm

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?

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:10 pm

evry BWB was a clone of a barcrest!

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:15 pm

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

Might see what Players Heaven team have to say.

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:02 pm

fuck noes mate, they musta been

BigEd · Post by **BigEd** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:12 pm

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.

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:04 pm

bigwankbandit :P

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:51 pm

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.

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:22 pm

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

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:30 pm

oh ok, never pushed one myself.

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:04 am

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.

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:52 am

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.

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:45 am

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

taxi start- lovleyyyyyy

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:49 am

They were licenced to do re-builds for Barcrest.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:00 am

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.

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:49 pm

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

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