Classic/Vintage Fruit Machines

[RichyJ75]

Bit of a step away from online slots with this post, but I am just in the process of converting half my garage into a games room (games table, dartboard, fridge, TV and games console, etc) and will be getting a fruit machine out there. Biggest dilemma was which one and at what jackpot level. Since my kids may use it, I have opted for a low £5 jackpot payout and whilst looking at fruit machines, stumbled across a vintage amusement arcade just up the road to me which has the old style (1980's era) machines.

I have been chatting to the owner who is selling a modern style old machine (out of place in his arcade) and during our chat and from looking at his website, it has dawned on me how vastly different the industry has become in the last couple of decades. As Dave (arcade chap) has pointed out, in the 80's they were 'amusement arcades' - arcades there for amusement and enjoyment. You could go there with a fiver and spend ages playing on the fruit machines as generally they had high RTP and regular payouts at lower amounts, meaning many hours of 'amusement'. Nowadays with the £100 jackpot fruities, a £20 stake will be gone by the time you finish your first pint and not exactly there for 'amusement' as my boy (10 years old) quite rightly said - the machine looks too complicated with all the buttons and lights'.

This fact was strengthened from a recent family outing to a local caravan park with amusements. Loads of arcades and 100's of fruit machines, but my boy only wanted to play Eachway Nudger (1980's machine) which we found tucked away. Nice and simple and where the 'bonus round' was simply selecting nudges up or down on the reels! He loved it and won the jackpot a few times, walking away with a few quid profit.

So now my thought pattern has changed and will probably source an old machine for amusement out in the games room and am quite looking forward to it. I am sure it will bring back fond memories of my childhood in the amusements whilst on holiday. However, the chances of finding a Silver Ghost, Bar X or 20p Stepper machine seem quite bleak, but would be nice to find one with simple functions like 'Hold' and 'Nudge' instead of 200 bulbs flashing, LCD displays, deal or no deal buttons, etc!

So, what's your favourite old machine? This question is probably only applicable for people in their 40's! (ooops, just remembered another I used to love with black cherries or red cherries on the gamble .... damn, forgotten its name!)

 

[RichyJ75]

Golden Steppa (not 20p stepper as previously thought), that's the one! Used to love this as a kid. So much enjoyment from it going up 20p at a time!!

 

[steveh35]

25p golden game because I knew all the tricks, hold the one yellow bar in the middle, keep getting the golden x until you win the jackpot, was always smug sitting next to someone who didn't know the tricks of this machine a bit like playing oxo and knowing to wait for the nudges to go down on their own.

 

[Jono777]

I 'lived' in the arcades in the 90's. Me and my best mate used to make a living (ok well beer and fag money) from using our knowledge, patience, great relationship with the owners and nativity of customers.

Some of my all time faves included..

Cash Force (BFM £4.80JP)
Sunset Boulevard (Barcrest £4.80JP)
Blue Moon (Barcrest £4.80JP)
Hi Point (BFM - the £2.40 repeater could go on forever lol!)
Screen Play (Maygay, could get the £3 repeater ever time from Find the Knight or Duck Shoot)
Viva Las Vegas / Road Hog (Barcrest £6 JP)
Big Banker / Big Bucks (JPM)
Reno Reels / Monte Carlo or Bust (BWB - £6 JP)

I could go on forever but my all time low tech classics had to be the Project Coin series, Double UP, Hit the Six, Sevens and Melons and the two beauties below in picture.



I had a phase in my youger years on having full size fruities in my mom n dads garage at home. Originally had a £100 JP Club machine and Hit the Top (Barcrest £4 JP) - Later changed these to Silver Shadow (Barcrest £4 JP) and a slightly more modern club machine.

Since getting own family/house I've occasionally had the urge to get another one and always keep an eye open but not really pushed it or done much about it.

Would love a Barcrest 'Up n Over' or 'Lotto Luck' travelled the country emptying these beauties early 2000's and made a small fortune, all of which obviously got pissed up the wall and smoked away lol.

 

[lord flashheart]

There's so many classics you could go for.....

For comedy value there was spotted dick (original £15 JP not the remake). OK game, but some of the sound effects were pretty funny.

Thriller - absolutely awful game, but hilarious when you got a feature and then pressed start only to get a 2 which would land on zoom and then quite frequently on add again which put you onto LOSE hahaha

if you want something that required a bit of skill, you could go for Simpsons duff beer guide - virtually every feature on that apart from cherry surprise could pay jackpot depending on reel set ups etc...

or for the ultimate skill challenge get Arcadia - anyone remember trying to hit shoot 'em up????

 

[Jd666]

The 80's and 90's were the best.
All the mpu3 barcrests were my favourites in the 80's.
What a machine Line Up was, so simple but enjoyable.
There is an anniverary edition out which plays almost exactly like it.
And also hard to believe Partytime has been out 16 years

 

[Jd666]

You wouldnt be on about Reelfruits would you Richy?

 

[aceking123]

Hi i still have one ( Bellfruit JPM )club machine grand slam one of the newer £500 jackpots , this changed over when they went to £1000 jackpots , still like the game many many hours of clocking the £250 which i could trigger for 3 jackpots back in the day

 

[RichyJ75]

You wouldnt be on about Reelfruits would you Richy?

Yep, Reel Fruits at the bottom of Gabriels Hill !!

Not been in there yet, but am now eager to as 'Dave' sounds a nice chap and it looks a fun place to go.

 

[Jd666]

Would love to go and spend a day in there.
Heard plenty about that and mr p's.
Just a bit too far for me

Yep, Reel Fruits at the bottom of Gabriels Hill !!

Not been in there yet, but am now eager to as 'Dave' sounds a nice chap and it looks a fun place to go.

 

[RichyJ75]

Whereabouts is Mr P's? I know the owner of Reel Fruits has another store in Tonbridge, which I presume is along the same lines, namely classic slots.

And oh boy, this one brings back fond memories! I remember playing this if feeling adventurous and if my nan had just given us a bit more cash to play with!

 

[Jd666]

Whereabouts is Mr P's? I know the owner of Reel Fruits has another store in Tonbridge, which I presume is along the same lines, namely classic slots.

And oh boy, this one brings back fond memories! I remember playing this if feeling adventurous and if my nan had just given us a bit more cash to play with!

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When this came out, it let you do unlimited exchanges on the jackpot to try get unlimited nudges on the next play.
But then they chipped it to only let you have one go at it.

Yeah, thats the one in Tonbridge.

A couple of pics of the Line Up anniversary edition when i played it a couple of months ago.

And after not playing it for well over 20 years, I could still remember the reels

 

[dunover]

It amazes me how many were drawn into gambling at such a young age. It's a UK thing.....

 

[lotusch]

As I am Dutch,our oldie slots look a bit different from the UK ones with 6000 buttons on it.
Well see below my all time favourite oldie slot.
I could play this for hours with 50 quid and most of the times I would walk away with 150-200 quid.
Played this so much in my student years, hence my nickname.
Now y'all know where it comes from!

Very straight forward slot with base game and top game which could pay very handsomely.

Used to have this slot in my house before moving to Ireland.
Nowadays you can still buy them for around €75.00-€125.00. Working with Euro coins and all.



You can also play this online and then it looks like this:

 

[Jd666]

There is a Crystal Maze and a Cashlines fruit machine app on Google Play

 

[RichyJ75]

It amazes me how many were drawn into gambling at such a young age. It's a UK thing.....

Probably down to all the amusement arcades at the beaches and caravan parks! That's where I was introduced to them - good old Seawick Holiday Park, next to Clacton-on-Sea! Endless fun down there, especially looking for dropped/unclaimed coins from the pusher machines!


And Line Up - I remember that one now having seen the picture! Great fun.

 

[Jd666]

I see the next generation of Gamblers everytime i go to Brid.
I feel sorry for them only being able to play the rubbish which is out today.
Even the 10p £5 jackpots can be brutal as most of them save up for streaks.
I once put £16 in a 10p Partytime Arena before i got a win and the bloody thing didnt go up

 

[pinkfloyd]

how much entry will you charge and how much are beers )

i miss the online ones so much

i cant remember seeing any fruit machines in australia , but i used to gamble on these old 10c bally machines , my friend used to have one in his garage

 

[colinsunderland]

I must be older than most people on here lol

I used to love playing this



then along came this (with a few inbetween) I can still remember the reels on most of the old machines from this period



and this but with the big round buttons

 

[Jd666]

I remember them very well Colin.

And Carfield ones where you could either hold or nudge each reel up or down just one nudge.

Dransfield patented the nudge feature and Carfield was part of Dransfield.

I remember the 1p play Bellfruits with a 10p Jackpot, it just made a buzzing noise when you got nudges and you had to be quick as fuck before the buzzing stopped.

 

[Jono777]

Here's a few which were just starting to disappear as I became more regular in the arcades (just finished Uni and was looking for work so had a bit of spare time on my hands )

 

[Jono777]

and I would LOVE to go here for a few hours.

 

[colinsunderland]

I remember them very well Colin.

And Carfield ones where you could either hold or nudge each reel up or down just one nudge.

Dransfield patented the nudge feature and Carfield was part of Dransfield.

I remember the 1p play Bellfruits with a 10p Jackpot, it just made a buzzing noise when you got nudges and you had to be quick as fuck before the buzzing stopped.

yep I remember those too

and I would LOVE to go here for a few hours.





Theres an arcade near me (down at Roker seafront for anyone from round here) that is ran by 2 old guys, probably in their 70's now, and still have quite a few machines from the 80's, and older

 

[RichyJ75]

and I would LOVE to go here for a few hours.




This place is 3 miles away from me and I always walked past it without venturing in! Now that I know what is in there, I will be popping in and checking it out. The owner (Dave) sounds a nice chap and i am looking at buying a fruity from him. Have been messaging him and am surprised at some of the other machines he has - proper blast from the past for me.

 

[Jono777]

Enjoy Richy and be sure to let us know if you go in and/or buy a fruity from him.

Not important but if you do go and remember, ask him whether he has a list of fruities for sale as I'd be very interested also for the right price

 

[Jd666]

Here's a few which were just starting to disappear as I became more regular in the arcades (just finished Uni and was looking for work so had a bit of spare time on my hands )



Yep, the barcrest MPU3's

These were arriving on the scene a year or 2 before i left school.

Nudges Unlimited, Instant Replay, Exchanges Unlimited, Adders & Ladders, Super Line up (Line Up on £2) Snappy Viper (Hyper Viper On £2) and Chances Unlimited (Options Unlimited on £2)

There was also a Barcrest video screen one with 4 reels but cant remember the name, silver something or other.

Got me bloody hooked these did

 

[Jono777]

Silver Shuffle, Silver Ghost, Silver Shadow (probably not the latter) few I can think of but no idea what they looked like

 

[Jd666]

Silver Shuffle, Silver Ghost, Silver Shadow (probably not the latter) few I can think of but no idea what they looked like

No, dont think so.

I only ever saw two of them, where as the others were everywhere.

Other MPU3's were the taller cabs.

Strike a lite, Fortune Numbers and Razzle Dazzle. All With roulette wheel gambles

 

[RichyJ75]

Enjoy Richy and be sure to let us know if you go in and/or buy a fruity from him.

Not important but if you do go and remember, ask him whether he has a list of fruities for sale as I'd be very interested also for the right price

I am sure I will enjoy it and will also take my 10 year old son along as well. Under 18's are allowed as all machines have small jackpots and the place is classed as a proper 'amusement arcade' as opposed to the other seedy looking money pits with the £500 jackpots, etc.

He has one item for sale at the moment (ebay item 172350234120) and at £149 including delivery, is not a bad price. Courier fees for fruit machines seem to be around £65. As he is local, I can easily get a machine in the back of our Ford Galaxy and get it for a fair bit cheaper.

 

[slot_zombie]

I see the next generation of Gamblers everytime i go to Brid.
I feel sorry for them only being able to play the rubbish which is out today.
Even the 10p £5 jackpots can be brutal as most of them save up for streaks.
I once put £16 in a 10p Partytime Arena before i got a win and the bloody thing didnt go up

Some of the modern £5 stuff isn't too bad... in theory. Unfortunately the vast majority is nailed down to 80℅ RTP or lower by the operators, try making a rewarding game on those shit percentages.

The hour I spent playing a £5 Crazy Fruits Community Party on Paignton Pier this summer (74℅ RTP) will haunt me to my dying day.

 

[Jd666]

Some of the modern £5 stuff isn't too bad... in theory. Unfortunately the vast majority is nailed down to 80℅ RTP or lower by the operators, try making a rewarding game on those shit percentages.

The hour I spent playing a £5 Crazy Fruits Community Party on Paignton Pier this summer (74℅ RTP) will haunt me to my dying day.

There is someone who posts videos from Paignton Pier on Youtube.

£5 DOND are just a waste of time, can cost you more than a fiver for a board.

The £5 partytimes with XXX for a £1 can take over £7 to get a win.
The XXX for 40p are more entertaining but dont usually get as much on the top board, although i have had over £30 on one of them with it going back up a couple of times. Had a few Twenties as well.

Golden Games are ok if nearly ready.
My best result on a £5 one is putting 2 quid in a 3 player Coronation Street and getting a £55 streak

If you find the odd classic then they are the entertaining ones

 

[slot_zombie]

Couldn't find any classics in Paignton, lots of arcades but all clones.of each other with party time, GG etc. And of course the £500s which we don't touch because we don't want the holiday ruined by going tilty on them.

And Torquay wasn't much better although the missus nailed the Reno Casinos night after night lol.

Was only on holiday there so two shits are not given.

 

[RichyJ75]

The same chap I've been chatting to now has The Big Breakfast for sale, eBay item 172356451246.

How could I forget about some of these machines? Great fun and entertaining. I seriously need to get a classic machine in my man cave now.

 

[dunover]

The BWB 'Red hot poker' I used to love that game, the marked cards etc. The 4 jokers would appear for the royal then it would streak for 40 quid.

 

[Jono777]

Remember it well, great machine.

They had it in our local Quicksilver for a while, used to do well from the 'Rise and Shine' feature as it was easily triggered and paid close to JP on occasions, could 'catch' it 4-5 times before it would go dead and not 'rise' above a couple of quid lol.

 

[Yorkstar]

Yes Colin I know that roker arcade well, it's only about 40 minute drive away for me, still have a 4 pound cops and robbers, lite a nudge and nudge double deluxe.
South Shields ocean beach up the road from there is even better, still as 2 mark 2 each way nudgers, roller coaster, Indiana jones, andy Capp,viz, Las Vegas strip and a canny few more, so I pop up here now and again for some proper nostalgia gaming.

I've been to reel fruits about 4 times and it's great about 140 mostly classic machines all on good percentages and programs, I love it just shame I'm so far away, but really is nice to have, has the rest of machines left in arcades and pubs are mostly pretty bad boring and big money eaters.

I avent been to mr ps in tonebridge yet, but this arcade is a bit smaller, and is over 18s with more older 500 jackpots, and some old 10p club machines, sprinkled in with a few 70, 35, and 25 and classic 15,10, 8 and even a classic 4,80 cloud 9 jackpot fruit, sounds well worth the visit anyway which I intend to do soon.

 

[colinsunderland]

One of my favourite ever machines

Yes Colin I know that roker arcade well, it's only about 40 minute drive away for me, still have a 4 pound cops and robbers, lite a nudge and nudge double deluxe.
South Shields ocean beach up the road from there is even better, still as 2 mark 2 each way nudgers, roller coaster, Indiana jones, andy Capp,viz, Las Vegas strip and a canny few more, so I pop up here now and again for some proper nostalgia gaming.

I was living about a 3 minute walk from Seaburn arcades up to about 18 months ago, now its about a 15 min drive to the Roker ones

I am pretty sure the first arcade you come to at Seaburn (coming from Roker end) has some of these in, with the original buttons like this one

 

[vinylweatherman]

I've got the clone of the top one in my garage, nudge double-up deluxe. Unfortunately, it stopped working, possibly a board fault. It may well be repairable, so I have kept it, along with one of the JPM "melon meter" machines. I have Lootshoot, which still works, in the lounge.

 

[Yorkstar]

Hi Colin do you not mean south shields, i know seaburn is in between there and roker, maybe hopefully i missing a few jems, didnt know of any arcades in seaburn.

 

[colinsunderland]

Hi Colin do you not mean south shields, i know seaburn is in between there and roker, maybe hopefully i missing a few jems, didnt know of any arcades in seaburn.

No Seaburn
As you come along the seafront from Roker, you pass the chip shops on the left, there are 2 arcades before you get to the fairground, just before Morrisons, opposite Fat Budda's

I'm fairly sure its the first one with those machines in, but could be the second one as its been a while since I was there, they are literally a minutes walk apart though so easy to check both

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that should be streetview of the first one, the green sign further along is the second one

 

[Yorkstar]

Yes been to these to arcades several arcades unfortunately nothing much left classic wise, super nudge gambler is there, but that's about it, was a 5p maygay monopoly but that since gone, maybe an odd tupenny nudger.
Stuff like red gaming 25 quid, jackpoteers, Simpsons, and a few more 5 quidders is best ya can get, but these not really classics, like I say ocean beach up the road is place to be for some old school.

Apart from here, and reelfruits, and a few others scatterd about, basically all classics are extinct, all arcades up and down the country are the same, loads of boring 500 quid money gobblers, 100 quid stuff like magic mushrooms, avoid like the plague, party times and barx 7s/magic 10s. All pretty poor places these days, in saying that i still go in them,but that's me just been silly.

 

[Jd666]

One of my favourite ever machines

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I was living about a 3 minute walk from Seaburn arcades up to about 18 months ago, now its about a 15 min drive to the Roker ones

I am pretty sure the first arcade you come to at Seaburn (coming from Roker end) has some of these in, with the original buttons like this one

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Saw a couple of these in an arcade in Scarborough last Sunday, its in the town and not on the seafront.
Also had a Temple Of Treasure and a couple of Pink Pussies (old Maygay Pink Panther clone)
A 10p fiver jackpot Nudge Nudge Wink Wink in a seafront arcade.
Bridlington had a 5p £6 token jackpot Andys Great Escape

 

[Yorkstar]

Yes was here a few weeks back Shaws amusements, temple of treasure, 5p frenzy why you would want it on this stake is anyones guess, 10p is bad enough, 20p/25p/30p all the way great fruit on this stake, was also a 10p reel money clone of jpm casino 5 liner.

I know what you mean as well with andys great escape, not to long ago the original was sat to next to it, infact bridlington wasnt to bad not to long ago, little arcade at the end had a crystalmaze, a rare empire bars and stripes, psycho beast, duff beer guide, a strange cabinet each way nudger, and a canny few more, but i suppose you could say every where was better few years ago, unfortuantely most classics have slowly gone.

Planning a trip soon back down to Maidstone, reel fruits arcade, 140 classic fruits, i could spend days there.

 

[Jono777]

Does anyone know if this 'Aladdin's Cave' in Maidstone are all £5 JP Converts or the originals as released?

This may sound daft but I made a small fortune and a lot more profit with £3/£6 Token Jp's than I ever did from all cash machines.

 

[vinylweatherman]

The classic days were not all good, earlier this year I had a reminder of the darker side at Sutton Scotney services, the classic 1990's "air-pay" payout option

 

[Yorkstar]

Dave who owns the arcade, likes to have it has fair has possible and have the games running to best of their availability, which in most cases means they have the earliest rom/game set available, a lot of games over the years got chipped, to take away cheats/emptiers e.t.c thus often ruining the gameplay, some tricks are left in on purpose in reel fruits, to recreate the old school feel.

Yes plenty of 3 quid 6 quid token fruits plenty on 20p play as well so give a very nice game, stuff like andy capp, viz,grand national, eastenders, noels house party, bullseye, all on has original can find roms.

Then you have 8 quid and ten quid fruits like jpm roller coaster, snakes and ladders, indiana jones, barcrest lucky strike, cash attack, bfm showtime spectacular, big breakfast, and the like,

Also he has a pretty big selection of so called newer fruits, but most of these are over 15 year old so classics in my eyes, 5 quid 10p play or 20p play wipeout, duff beer guide, big brother, 20p play 5 quid play great game.

Basically fruits from the 80s up until the mid 2000s, you will find them here, well worth the trip like me if ya like ya fruit classics.

 

[Jono777]

Don't recognise those ^^ , saying that never played a £100 JP AWP.

Do recall the regular 'Air Pays' though and before that the 'clunk, clunk' of empty tubes.

Had to go to the onsite shop and fill in a form to claim then wait like what seemed to be forever.

Largest ever I.O.U I collected from Hilton Park Services was around £50. Completely emptied the Ace Coin 'Open the Box' and then built the machines 'bank' back up to max, more as a 'You never know' type thing.

Took about 6 weeks but got paid in full via a cheque.

Tried something very similar at Sandbach Services this time with a friend and on a larger scale.

They had 3 Ace machines at the time and IIRC had an IOU for around £100. Got a phone call after a while and when we got there and reported to wherever it was we were asked to go to (can't recall where or who we were supposed to meet) we were greeted with around 4-5 coin bags filled with 20p tokens.

Hoping to collect cash and ending up with these we were gambling well into the night and ended up getting home around 3am!

 

[vinylweatherman]

Don't recognise those ^^ , saying that never played a £100 JP AWP.

Do recall the regular 'Air Pays' though and before that the 'clunk, clunk' of empty tubes.

Had to go to the onsite shop and fill in a form to claim then wait like what seemed to be forever.

Largest ever I.O.U I collected from Hilton Park Services was around £50. Completely emptied the Ace Coin 'Open the Box' and then built the machines 'bank' back up to max, more as a 'You never know' type thing.

Took about 6 weeks but got paid in full via a cheque.

Tried something very similar at Sandbach Services this time with a friend and on a larger scale.

They had 3 Ace machines at the time and IIRC had an IOU for around £100. Got a phone call after a while and when we got there and reported to wherever it was we were asked to go to (can't recall where or who we were supposed to meet) we were greeted with around 4-5 coin bags filled with 20p tokens.

Hoping to collect cash and ending up with these we were gambling well into the night and ended up getting home around 3am!

That's the problem, you filled in the form, and most of the time you would have to go back and prod and poke them, otherwise the claim would never get paid. It seems they assumed all players were faking it.

When it happened with that £100 JP machine, all I could find was the McDonalds shift manager, and he didn't have a clue what to do, nor the right forms when he found out. He said he would pass it on and I would get a call back. It didn't happen so I dug their number out off the internet (something we didn't have in the "classic" era), and phoned them. They said it had never been passed on to them, so I gave the woman a brief lecture on the new rules implemented by the UKGC, and that I didn't feel that the McDonalds shift manager was a suitable member of staff to be the one charged with policing the 18+ area as he didn't even know how to follow the correct procedure that was displayed in the casino area, so probably didn't know how to ensure UKGC requirements were met.

I got my £30 back though, but she tried to short pay by not refunding the unused £1 that was held in the credit bank, so it seems even she didn't understand how to interpret the on screen error message and pay the correct amount.

I had hoped that having machines trap the short pay error and freeze with the amount owing would put an end to the old system where the only evidence of a claim was the players' word, and the engineer checking the meters vs the cash held, and them only processing claims that were covered by the excess cash vs what the meters said should be there. This of course meant the honest player could be ripped off by someone trying to claim and getting theirs in first from seeing that a machine had faulted, even though they weren't the ones playing it.

 

[TheAddict]

Careful with Reelfruits maidstone Yorkstar. As you probably read elsewhere, the locals are usually quite well ontop of the playables in there. Good percenteges yeah, but mostly 10/20p play so can take a hammering on some if caught at the wrong time & playing for a bit of fun.
The rollercoaster is on £5jackpot and 10p play i believe. It was numbering and i put £32 in for 3 nemesises and a £15 big money. 2 nemesis didn't go so i was on it bloomin ages. would have broke evens but it shafted me £1 on payout haha.
Dave is a good bloke, that roller coaster decided to turn itself off on the feature board randomly. Wasn't asking for compensation but he gave me a fiver for the trouble, and refuse to take it back.
It's a great place but catch it at the wrong time and it can get expensive.

As for the mentioned Aladdins cave, what a bloody machine that was when on £8 token 20p play. Always felt slightly tighter than rollercoaster, while numbering like rollercoaster and no cancel button to cheat the princess tower skillstop, which liked a repeat. I believe it's on £6 jackpot in reelfruits, maybe even £8. tokens or cash i could not say - some of them there state token jackpot but pay cash. Only ever knew of one in my lifetime which i adored to bits, happened to be in my local huge (extinct now) arcade that also included about 8 roller coasters!

The only other old school machine i can think of, which i believe Dave was also after obtaining for his collection last time i stepped into Reelfruits, is the rare classic Mr.Do! so rare, and a similar profile as to labrynth/sphinx so a good game with hidden features etc.. was always entertaining and remains sorely missed.

 

[Mabby2000]

The aladdins cave, I had one in my arcade years ago... it's much tighter than the roller coaster!
It's based in a jpm system5 cab but runs on barcrest mpu4 crystal rebuild, on 10p play £8 cash, the most I've ever seen it repeat twice off the top feature.
The roller was on £10 then I upgraded it to £15 in oct '98 most I've ever seen it do a £120 off the top feature!
I like the original pcp aladdins cave in an early MPs cab on £2 2p play.
I had eachway nudger mk2, eachway shuffle and supa steppa (all jpm MPs) and a sru ctl eachway shuffle 5p play £1.50
Lovely thread, good memories of the hey days!