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Where itBoxes go to die...

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:10 pm
by Topical2009
Quiet round this part of the internet, isn't it?

Anyway, this may be old news to everyone else, but I haven't been in a bookies since Desert Orchid was winning races, so my eye was caught by this picture from yesterday's Guardian, apparently revealing where all those vanished cabinets have washed up. Not a total surprise, of course, as I've been caught out a couple of times by Paragon cabinets which turned out to have been re-programmed as fruities. I wonder if the same fate ultimately awaits all of them?

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:06 pm
by Roll_With_It_Russ
Itbox had produced the Fixed odds games in the same cabinet for bookies years ago, they got some in a few shops with the big 3 and some independants, in the end though they could not develop newer software and create newer terminals as fast as the competition.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:17 pm
by eddiesdad
itboxes were first designed for the bookies.they became awps later,hence the poor internal layout.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:31 pm
by Roll_With_It_Russ
First place I saw them where in pubs, thats before terminals took off in bookies.

Had games like strike it rich etc and other quiz games, jacpots where £20-£40 I think

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:05 pm
by quizard
This is an old picture (bad journalism again). William Hill used ITBoxes as FOBTs in the early/mid 2000s. All Hills have Inspired Gaming units now.