golden crowns mid 1980's

fiskrond · Post by **fiskrond** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:24 am

hi,
i'm trying to identify a fruitie from 1984/5
had a 9 position fruit grid on the right hand side - each line = 2 nudges
matching fruits and nudges could be gambled
possibly cash exchange for nudges (vice versa)
unlimited nudges possible, no autonudge

the most memorable feature that i recall is that the jackpot was
3 gold crowns,
all other symbols were fruits (maybe had £ also)

I'm sure it was called Triple Crowns or Golden Crowns or similar.
Had a mostly brown background.
Pretty sure it was a £1.50 jackpot. No tokens.

Strike a chord with anybody???[/u]

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:23 am

Sounds like a clone of exchanges unlimited???????????????

spa · Post by **spa** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:58 am

It's emulated. I took some photos of one too. Got them somewhere, can't be arsed to find them though

Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:58 am

I remember this machine. It was made by MDM, and as you rightly say 3 Crowns gave you the jackpot of £1.50 which could hold once or twice if you were lucky.

Notice what is probably a PCP Cash Attraction to the right.

Enjoy

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:33 am

Think it just before exchanges unlimited. It was 10p/£2 JP (then upgraded to £3). One of the last to have the metal slots. The static reset trick worked very well on these. Didn't have GAIN on so you could try and nudge in difficult to get symbols with the hope of a "feature held" next game. Just about the only machine I ever emptied !

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:36 am

No pears or apples on grid lol

spa · Post by **spa** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:02 pm

Lol, and there's me photos

spa · Post by **spa** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:04 pm

Also, to the right is a pcp casino royale

AMK · Post by **AMK** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:35 am

mr lugsy wrote:No pears or apples on grid lol

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Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:03 am

spa wrote:Lol, and there's me photos

And very nice they are too! I got them off the Repro.

Happy New Year from Stevedude2

Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:08 am

spa wrote:Also, to the right is a pcp casino royale

Bah! I knew it was something like that but I couldn't remember the name. Last time I played one of those was at Alton Towers about 16 years back. They had some PCP Henry the Hound machines too that were a clone of Blue Streak. The top glass was on Ebay recently - I almost went for it. There was an Electrocoin Pennies from Heaven top glass too, and some other stuff. The seller was from Great Yarmouth - you could have had a stab at those yourself and collected in person

fiskrond · Post by **fiskrond** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:30 am

Mystery_Plum
Spot on sir..that's the one!
This is the machine responsible for my slimness as an early teenager - many a lunchtime things went catastrophically wrong and I went hungry!!

I gotta find the emu for it now

spa · Post by **spa** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:34 am

Happy new year to you too

The Golden Crowns was in Wells-Next-To-Sea. Was quite a while back now, around 2003/4 at a guess. It didn't work but Cashino Royale did. Amazed there's no roms for CR about, was a great machine!

They were in a cafe of all places.

You can see the GC cab on your left

spa · Post by **spa** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:37 am

Haha, and looking at the other photos, this was to the right!

Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:40 pm

Do you mean the cafe inside one of the arcades? They had a JPM Intrigue in that cafe for a time as well. Long gone now though