Fruit Machine Chat

I was reminded at the weekend of two games I used to enjoy that have completely disappeared and which I'd actually forgotten about:

The Royle Family - you had to fill up the trail for each of the main characters in the family - Jim, Barbara etc

Family Fortunes - I can't remember exactly how you played this one (can anyone remind me?) but it was one of those really decent games where you had a good chance of finding it in a playable state and where a JP was a distinct possibility

Both of these were on the old-style Gamesnets - the short ones with the slanted screens that also included the original Battleships, which was another great game - the one that survived until very recently in a bastardised form as Version 3, not the recent Bullseye clone or the old JPM version with the pirate characters walking the plank.

Anyone else want to join me in my inane Old Quizzers' Retirement Home ramblings?

Old quizzers don't die, they just run out of answers...

Nil Satis wrote:
The Royle Family - you had to fill up the trail for each of the main characters in the family - Jim, Barbara etc

I know at least one player who made very healthy sums off Royle Family. For me, they coincided with a spell when I wasn't SWPing very much, so it was never a game I got any good at at all.

Fuck me, everybody loved Royle Family and Family Fortunes. That's why they aren't around any more.

You should hit Manager's Choice more often on an ItBox. I know of one extant Family Fortunes hiding away there. Also have a Celebrity Name Game(?) near me, where you're given about 20 names in a grid and you have to match two together to make a film director/rugby player etc. Not necessarily a great game, but certainly one I'd entirely forgotten about. Still holding out hope for a Winning Lines somewhere.

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Nil Satis wrote:Both of these were on the old-style Gamesnets ........

Both of these games emptied Gamesnets over a long period of time, good times for those in the know, sad times for the designers. Fortunes were made!!

Money went in, another two examples of where it ALL came out.

Does anyone remember a game called Gems? It was in a time when game times were not an issue and you could get a good 20 mins or more

That was on the GameBox version 4:

http://www.cmjsleisure.com/gamebox-quiz ... p-501.html

but I suspect most posters on here would have ignored it and gone for one or more of the lovely quiz games on the same edition.

I'd forgotten all about the Royle Family game. One of my favourites.

But my all time favourite - available on ebay but the mrs has threatened divorce (we aint even married) was the old school Crystal Maze.

Very very rarely did I win any cash on it, but it was good fun for a quid in the pub.

sorry but you kinda goaded me in to it but i won c.£30000 out of those
apologies to our many wordsmiths for that last sentence - very ungainly but it's late.
now those WERE happy days.

foxy wrote:sorry but you kinda goaded me in to it but i won c.£30000 out of those

Which one? Crystal Maze? Or Royle Family? Either way, top skills.

I remember Foxy saying that he could consistently clear up on The Crystal Maze even when it was only offering 60 gold tokens.

Sadly, I only ever managed to nail it a few times

spot on cardinal - crystal mazes 1 2 and 3 were all multi-jackpottable. mind you that came to an end when they halved the playing time AND reduced the gold tokens to 51!! talk about over reaction.i'm still barred from booths amusements(formerly enterprise for glaswegian students of gambling) for winning £5 ONCE which is quite funny as i would regularly lose a fortune on the puggies and the best bit about the barring was the woman telling me that she would always be there to make sure i served my ban. oh such lofty job aspirations. finally i'm happy to report that some 12 or so years later as i cast the occasional longing glance to their crappy quiz machine that she is indeed still there. i guess she wins!

I got turfed out of an amusement arcade in Weymouth many moons ago by the owners son , bad enough.Worse he was no more than 12yrs old! Amusement arcade owners tend to be worse than the dodgy publican.

were they foreign?