Fruit Machine Chat

Saw a new cabinet tonight and was wondering whether it rings bells with anyone.

I'm afraid I can't remember what it called itself but it had an amazing amount of games on it - probably thirty or forty including some nostalgic oldies which I thought had disappeared (e.g. Ten Out Of Ten, Who Wants To Win A Tenner?, that kind of thing).

There was a fixed menu of about fifteen newer games and then a smaller horizontal menu at the bottom of the screen which showed about eight randomly selected other games from a full selection of about twenty. The horizontal menu seemed to change from game to game. When selecting a game it initially came up on a screen within the screen and a separate arrow had to be pressed to enter the game itself.

Also, there were one or two promising new games - particularly one called 'Battle of Britain'.

Ring bells with anyone? If so, who makes it?

Anyway, definitely the most promising new cabinet I've seen since the ItBox first appeared all those years ago. So many games including some good ones.

I'll keep an eye out for this - haven't seen one with some of those games on for a while.

Nothing new about Battle of Britain though - that was out yonks ago if its the one with the planes advancing in formation.

QuizMaster wrote: Nothing new about Battle of Britain though - that was out yonks ago if its the one with the planes advancing in formation.

That's the one - I must have missed it back then.

i saw this at atei.

it looked very much to me like an exercise in showcasing potential rather than a viable machine in the wild.
in retrospect i think it looked like an inhouse beta testing system.
but it did have (at atei) one very interesting game which i mean to get at before 50 marauding Bobs do. i'm gonna do a Brewis.
any chance of a PM location Grecian?

Sounds like the new Probius-e terminal. Tons of stuff. My one has vanished now, so no location from me unfortunately.

In that case, I didn't spot the adding game you talked about a while back, but will have to re-visit before spreading the location more widely...

How about taking a photo to show us then?

If its a probius cabinet it was reported by me on Wednesday 14th March!

I thought that post was about an inde:go machine Cool, which on my understanding is different to the one I saw the other night. I think there's an inde:go in the Lamb in Leadenhall Market in the City of London, for example: it's different (and not as good) as the terminal I saw the other night. By the way the name of the one I saw, as printed on it, definitely wasn't 'Probius'. When I visit again I'll note the name, and, if I've remembered the wife's digital camera, I'll take a photo.

Leadenhall market is next door to my office... I'll pop in and look for Word Up.

The Battle of Britain endgame is another Strike It Rich style ARROW/QUESTION/HOTSPOT affair where the icon which last appeared before the squares were covered is still hdiing there.

With a video phone you can record the positions of the icons but it's difficult to work with such a recording unless you have a phone with a sensitive rewind/ff function. In such games I tend to work in tandem with someone else and look for the hotspots (not the arrows) and avoid them, confident that in a True or False battle with the machine I tend to win.

QT

Saw a second one of these in London this morning. They are made by Fat Spanner and appear to be called 'Open'. On the downside, a £21 win was swallowed by the machine, so maybe these are not that reliable yet (per the ItBox in its earliest incarnations).

Here are the details:

http://www.fatspanner.com/fatbox/cabinets_open.htm

and

http://www.fatspanner.com/fatbox/open_games.htm

it is the same machine but with a different name.

If all of those games are available i'd be overjoyed.