Fruit Machine Chat

Anyone seen it?? I think it was on a sky channel, a little tour of a fancy arcade, then what could be JG forcing out his Flashback then a logo appears something along the lines of "Don't gamble on the credit crunch"

Lol, that's what that bloody camera crew were doing stomping around my house.

I like the way they hammer another little nail into the amusement coffins that are still dotted around, whilst the real 'credit crunch desperate gamble hole A K A the feckin' LBO' gets off scott free.

Yeah nice message. Don't fucking blow your swede on JG's Flashback (94% payout) do a few K on a FOBT instead.

Anyone been into an amusement coffin recently? Yeah great. Two different players battle against each other to play out the GGG variants twice a week and some fecker from London travels up to push the dial so far behind, it's quite literally on its arse. Someone who has got lost on the way to the LBO, or can only afford 1p/spin plays on the Haunted Houses. Cheap Joker Poker is also available and there are £5 DONDs for junkies who can't afford the ultra dead dial on 10p play. Party Time and Bullion Bars are available for brain deads.




I've been travelling around a hell of a lot of arcades recently, monitoring the situation. Some are more morguey than others. However you can't walk into an LBO to put £1 on that hot favourite or £1 in a ding ding, not without a wait, the great unwashed can't wait to pour their deodarant money into the fixed odds box.


I don't see you down here often?
Nah, I don't bother with these any more, the bookies is better, I won £500 last week.
Then the next week you see 'em begging for cheeseburger money.
One more ding on the reel dinger.
One more 36 shot.
Oh, the joys of the last quid.
At least in a Screen Play you got asked who had a hit with 'When the going gets tough". Back in them days Boyzone or whoever hadn't done their cheesy cover.
The answer was of course Billy Ocean. Sometimes that could net you 20p.

Of course what's the answer? You can't ban it, just like you can't ban Class A drugs, well you can, but you can't. Just make it less accessible and more fair. HUGE differences between the scope for an LBO to make money and an AGC.

New idea. Rouquizette. Side bet on a question yet to be revealed. Bigger odds for harder questions with more options. Plus roulette.

gambogaz1 wrote:Anyone seen it?? I think it was on a sky channel, a little tour of a fancy arcade, then what could be JG forcing out his Flashback then a logo appears something along the lines of "Don't gamble on the credit crunch"

They show it all the time on Sky News - and they showed it in the middle of England's innings on Sunday night too.

The arcade looks very familiar - and there're loads of machines to be named in there.

The bloke dressed as a builder is playing JG's favourite Flashback, and there's a Royle Family in the background.

I think thats the Sky News add.
Shows a close up of the old JPM impulse amongst others.

martal came round my flat tonight ,,,,,,,, pissed as a fart lol :P


anyhow couldn't track everything he was saying , but something about new 70quid posters with have you seen sid ? on em :

trayhop123 wrote:martal came round my flat tonight ,,,,,,,, pissed as a fart lol :P


anyhow couldn't track everything he was saying , but something about new 70quid posters with have you seen sid ? on em :

scchhipleys vadirt
scheet mid scheeventy quidsch
nexsct week! <burp>

Oh dear, he's definitely the worse for wear, maybe he'll be recovered in time for the £70 jackpots.

JG wrote:Oh dear, he's definitely the worse for wear, maybe he'll be recovered in time for the £70 jackpots.

mashed ops:
yeah recovering today

Its SUNSPOT arcade in southend, the one with the panther and golden dragon