Fruit Machine Chat

...you find a newly installed gamesnet with Jiggy Bank on. You play the pound game with a 1900 target. You win £40 without breaking a sweat in about six minutes.

Any others? :P

You visit three pubs in a row with a working itbox.

knell.

I did find an old Winning Lines game in the most unbelievable state at the weekend. I didn't actually find the Gamebox in question this time as I had played it before a few times and taken the JP at least once but on Saturday it wanted just 240 points for the £1, which meant that I won £1 on the qualifying rounds - first time I've ever seen that - and then took the JP for something like 880 points - ditto.

However the overall state of the 'industry' is absolutely dire:

- machines switched off/out of order

- ItBoxes that don't pay out the money you have actually won - I had one pay out just £13 from a £24 bank, and the rest of the coins didn't appear despite the usual routine of shaking/slot-fingering /winning something else and hoping they then appeared

- the few decent games mainly burnt everywhere

- shocking new games, particularly on the Gamesnets (more of that elsewhere)

so Properpro is right - something like three working ItBoxes in a row counts as lucky right now.

Think ItBox have bigger things to worry about at the moment to be honest.

I had two ItBoxes, side by side in a Wetherspoons out of central London, non-pay on me on Saturday night - both were clean empty. Reckon someone knows something I don't! Luckily, and unusually for a Wetherspoons, the bar paid my winnings up in cash straight away!

xyz

Gamestec have taken over the wetherspoon itboxes and others, so their extinction is premature.More accurate endangered.

Seeing as they are getting demolished they might be bust before long!

On an itbox today fuck all in it aaaagh !!!!!

Probably the demise of good games in the future then.