You know it's your lucky day when....

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:21 pm

...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

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:50 pm

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

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:13 pm

knell.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:54 am

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.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:58 am

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

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:32 pm

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!

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:00 pm

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:12 am

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

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:26 am

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

wires74 · Post by **wires74** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:43 pm

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

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:13 am

Probably the demise of good games in the future then.