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Pub Antiques
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:25 pm
by Topical2009
Saw this machine while I was having a day out at the weekend. Pretty sure it's the first time I've seen a cabinet like this in all my travels, I'm guessing (based on the games) because it's incredibly old, not because it's incredibly new. It set me wondering what the oldest / most unique cabinet is that still exists in the wild...I knew of a couple of original blue inde cabinets up until a year or so ago, but I reckon there's bound to be a kebab shop somewhere with a dodgy Give Us a Break which only accepts old 10p pieces. Anyone able to give an Antiques Roadshow style opinion on this specimen?
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:39 pm
by Northern Monkey
Was the Caveman Capers at £1 JP?
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:30 pm
by Topical2009
Afraid I was up against a strict time deadline and didn't have time to play everything I came across.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:08 pm
by paragoon
You could have taken a pic of the next page to see what the 'more games' were!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:35 pm
by Topical2009
As if by magic...
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:06 pm
by quizard
Its not all that old really. They only came on the scene about 7 or 8 years ago but never became widespread. I think they were more aimed at independent pubs rather than chains. Favourite standalones which survived in takeaways well into the 2000s used to be machines like Monopoly or QoS but I haven't seen any for a while.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:58 am
by tonkarentino
"Fruit Machine" quiz machine in a cafe in Mevagissey in Cornwall last September. Must be at least 25 years old.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:48 am
by paragoon
Topical2009 wrote:As if by magic...
Cheers! ¥e olde Ant And Dec game was ok. Think the earlier version of that menu had TOTP2 on it
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:53 am
by Nil Satis
A very similar menu to that one, but in a smaller cabinet (which usually failed to pay out any win at all!), survived until earlier this year in the bowling alley in Woking. Caveman Capers being included looks a bit odd to me - from memory that is a couple of years newer than the other games on there.
Within the last year or so I also knew of a couple of JPM GameBoxes (Millionaire, Pepsi Music Quiz, Winning Lines, the ten pin bowling game etc) which were from circa 2004 but those have now gone as well.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 8:31 pm
by grecian
I played a Bellfruit one with traffic cones etc. (from about 1997 I think) in an arcade in north Norfolk in about 2008.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:03 am
by cp999
grecian wrote:I played a Bellfruit one with traffic cones etc. (from about 1997 I think) in an arcade in north Norfolk in about 2008.
Fruit Pursuit?
Found a Monopoly earlier this year; I knew the location of a GUAB about ten years ago but I think the FMQ is going to be the winner here!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 7:13 am
by grecian
I thought it was 'Fruit Pursuit' but wasn't sure. Only played it once or twice at the time.
Antiques Update
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:30 pm
by Topical2009
Spotted yesterday on my travels, a stand-alone WWTBAM machine. Was that the last cabinet which had just the one game on it, I wondered to myself? Whether it is or not, I don't think I've seen one since 2003; meanwhile you can pick one up on eBay for the bargain opening price of £4.99, if you're tempted. If anyone wants the location, I will swap it for an Adders 'n' Ladders, or a Treble Top
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:00 pm
by Northern Monkey
Did the standalone Weakest link not post-date WWTBAM?