RAT RACE
The first machine I clearly remember playing was a 2p play, £1.50 Jackpot for 3 melons. It had silver sparkly reels and a double/nothing gamble. Gave up to 10 nudges. That was back in the early 90s and it looked a fairly old machine even then.
Around the same time I remember playing a 2p blast-a-bank and later a 5p Treasure Trail I think it was.
Also remember a machine very similar to Sevens Above, except it had a 4th reel at the top, which you could sometimes exchange for the middle reel symbol when you got nudges. Anyone know what it was or if it was emulated? I can remember the nudge music and slight variation that signalled the exchange was available, if that helps!
Mid-90s I made Ghost Buster (see pic) my regular machine of choice, at 2p/£3. Used to take my £3.50 paper round money and spend all Sunday morning gambling away, once getting 4 repeats for £15! Happy days.
Other good memories include Hagar, Haunted House, Bank Raid, Money Spinner, Crystal Maze and Super Streak (when it was 5p play, before they turned it into a 30p Elvis-branded 'which slot is hot').
How many machines being produced today will be looked back at in decades to come with susch fondness I wonder?
Many more I'm sure if I sat reminiscing all night.
Around the same time I remember playing a 2p blast-a-bank and later a 5p Treasure Trail I think it was.
Also remember a machine very similar to Sevens Above, except it had a 4th reel at the top, which you could sometimes exchange for the middle reel symbol when you got nudges. Anyone know what it was or if it was emulated? I can remember the nudge music and slight variation that signalled the exchange was available, if that helps!
Mid-90s I made Ghost Buster (see pic) my regular machine of choice, at 2p/£3. Used to take my £3.50 paper round money and spend all Sunday morning gambling away, once getting 4 repeats for £15! Happy days.
Other good memories include Hagar, Haunted House, Bank Raid, Money Spinner, Crystal Maze and Super Streak (when it was 5p play, before they turned it into a 30p Elvis-branded 'which slot is hot').
How many machines being produced today will be looked back at in decades to come with susch fondness I wonder?
Many more I'm sure if I sat reminiscing all night.
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rat race, ace chase ,star turn, fruit cracke(40p gamble to 2quid and could hold)
stop n flip, step n skip, kings and queen's ,win a gain, copper mine, haggar popeye, showtime spectacular, aladins cave, master spy. line up, the eachway nudger /shuffel range, sunset boulavard,
moving on a few years ,,,,,, snakes n ladders, roller coaster, monopoly 25th(loverly empty on the plug mind lol) ,big banker, big bucks, big 50, hot shots n ceasers,
just some of the classics that bring a tear to my eye at the mere mention,
makes me proud to know i was there from the beginning, and at 36 still making a living from them now
i truly will go and sit on a park bench and cry like a girl when its finally all over
stop n flip, step n skip, kings and queen's ,win a gain, copper mine, haggar popeye, showtime spectacular, aladins cave, master spy. line up, the eachway nudger /shuffel range, sunset boulavard,
moving on a few years ,,,,,, snakes n ladders, roller coaster, monopoly 25th(loverly empty on the plug mind lol) ,big banker, big bucks, big 50, hot shots n ceasers,
just some of the classics that bring a tear to my eye at the mere mention,
makes me proud to know i was there from the beginning, and at 36 still making a living from them now
i truly will go and sit on a park bench and cry like a girl when its finally all over
Little discipline = BIG issue
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and of course the classics mr do, gauntlet, double dragon , shinobi, bubble bobble, green beret, kung fu master, gyrus , r type, phoenix, 1942, hypersports, spyhunter, roling thunder, rainbow island, super mario, galaga, frogger ,rampage, final fight, ghosts n goblins, space harrier, out run, etc etc
too many to list
thank god for retro game compilations for the consoles
too many to list
thank god for retro game compilations for the consoles
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No, must be a different machine. Definitely no melon meter on the one I played. Any 2 symbols on reels 1 & 2 paid 4p and 3 melons was £1.50, paid in 10p pieces. There were two payout holes, one for 2ps and another for 10ps.harry3 wrote:Two melons would pay "melon meter" anything from 20p to £2.00 jackpot plus repeat chance.
So if you had the jackpot available off nudges you had to be careful to line reel 3 up first, then 1 and 2 whilst avoiding matching a pair!
I think i mentioned this in a thread back when i first joined but does anyone remember the cat and mouse themed game [barcrest perhaps] that when you got the jackpot you could either have the £6 tokens a wrist watch or a tiny carriage clock, my mate gave the carriage clock too his mum for mothers day [tight c*nt] and apparently it still keeps time, can't remember the name of this machine but it was around 94/95.
anyone?
anyone?
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There was a lot of machines that gave out prizes, normally if the jackpot repeated. A cops and robbers type one, went round a trail and you were Bert getting chased. My favorite was a bullseye in a local pub. One of the prizes was a zippo lighter, used to get a tenner for them off my smoking mates.
Rat race was probably my first fruit as well. Once that gamble was going the £2.00 jackpot wasn't far away. Anyone remember one at that time that had like a grandfather clock and mice on it. With 3 different feature trails. Nudges/Cashpot and something else.
Rat race was probably my first fruit as well. Once that gamble was going the £2.00 jackpot wasn't far away. Anyone remember one at that time that had like a grandfather clock and mice on it. With 3 different feature trails. Nudges/Cashpot and something else.
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tuppenny nudger thats where it all began!!! Then andy capps and one of my all time favouties bulleye £2.40 jackpot but the repeat was skill and v easy to hit.
Someone mentioned rod hogs that was a classic i think the 3 blue sevens was £3 and then 3 super red sevens was jackpot £6 in tokens.
oh how things have changed!!!!! thing is i dont think on the whole its for the better!!
Someone mentioned rod hogs that was a classic i think the 3 blue sevens was £3 and then 3 super red sevens was jackpot £6 in tokens.
oh how things have changed!!!!! thing is i dont think on the whole its for the better!!
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of course its for the better, would you really want to go from earning 100plus a day to the token era ????
back in the day of rat races i would think to be up 6quid to be an exceptional day, it meant i could get a 50p burger and a 1.99 commodore 64 game, my busfare home, and still have money left for the next day..... most days lost it all and had to walk home,,,,,
thomas arcades in leicester used to let you swap your tokens for high st shopping vouchers which i could swap with my mam for face value, she always spent em in iceland
(cue somebody saying that's why mums go to iceland lol)
been barred from all thomas for at least 12years though
in most pubs in leicester you had to put tokens back in the machines, with only the odd exception letting you spend them behind the bar
nostalgia , rose tinted specs, and love of the old machines stil wouldn't want to go back to struggling ,
if were all honest , the real living and ability to put money in the bank didn't come till the 10quid days
i dont know , you young uns dont know ya born, we had nowt to eat but a lump of coal , and lived in a cardboard box ,without a tupence to credit a rat race between us,,,,,, i
im 137 ya know
back in the day of rat races i would think to be up 6quid to be an exceptional day, it meant i could get a 50p burger and a 1.99 commodore 64 game, my busfare home, and still have money left for the next day..... most days lost it all and had to walk home,,,,,
thomas arcades in leicester used to let you swap your tokens for high st shopping vouchers which i could swap with my mam for face value, she always spent em in iceland
(cue somebody saying that's why mums go to iceland lol)
been barred from all thomas for at least 12years though
in most pubs in leicester you had to put tokens back in the machines, with only the odd exception letting you spend them behind the bar
nostalgia , rose tinted specs, and love of the old machines stil wouldn't want to go back to struggling ,
if were all honest , the real living and ability to put money in the bank didn't come till the 10quid days
i dont know , you young uns dont know ya born, we had nowt to eat but a lump of coal , and lived in a cardboard box ,without a tupence to credit a rat race between us,,,,,, i
im 137 ya know
Little discipline = BIG issue
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