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[corel]

Its all party time over at the astra headquarters this year as they celebrate 15 years of sucking our pockets dry and to celebrate they've launched a video version of the game, out now in all good leading arcades.

 

So let us share our best memories and worst, if we have any lol

 

 

Worst memory for me was ploughing in £200 into one machine and not once getting back anything hardly a decent run on the top feature only then the machine started to 'alarm' and staff had to switch it off. But that was good memory too as it made me realise I had to do something to stop gambling.

 

 

 

[vectra666]

best memories winning £245 out of  a £70,er winning £165 on a single streak of top boards 6jp,s plus extra,s but they also come with the low's ploughing £250 in a single unit only winning £5 top boards these are and always will in my eyes be the best fruit machines of the early 2000,s+ along with its clones double decker, top slot, hokey cokey, party bingo, party games

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[Magz]

15 years? Ah crap, now I'm feeling even older...

[Bencrest]

I'll never forget the time I got my arse handed to me by one in a small arcade in Deal, Kent. Party Time Arena, think it was a 4 player but it was the usual sit-down one. Anyway I maxed out my debit card that day (think it was a £250 limit) on the same position. Think it might have given a single £25 off the bottom reels, don't think it ever put me up the top. Since then I learned there was a bit of a scam on these (and presumably the other varients too). No idea if I fell victim to that, or was just *seriously* unlucky on it. 

 

My best times on Party Time were actually on the 10p/£5 versions, had plenty of good streaks (£25 or so being normal) off low stakes. Tended to only play the ones with £1 XXX, not the ones with 10p hoppers (normally 40p XXX).

[corel]

^{the XXX £1 machines are actually quite tight because they usually save up for bigger streaks, I prefer the XXX 40p machines.}

[todd1970]

15 years? Ah crap, now I'm feeling even older...

 

Indeed , 15 years thats scary ... im sure many of us have had our pants pulled down by these machines before.

[jamesy4]

I remember these coming into the Coral Island amusements when i was 9 years old, now that's going back 15 years, as i only still remember playing Tick Tock Cash, Pinball Nudger, Money Talks, Frank N' Stein, Cash Lab, Roller Coaster, Road Hog, Pyramid Nudger, Ghost Buster and a few others, Didn't start playing Party Time until i was 13 years old...after 4 years it was already out.

[mabby2000]

I remember the original 3 player stand up ones (i'm sure they first came out on 10 quid jackpot?)

[Magz]

IIRC it was £15 but you might be correct

[vectra666]

I remember the original 3 player stand up ones (i'm sure they first came out on 10 quid jackpot?)

I think you're right because doesn't the yellow jackpot symbol on some stand up say "big 10" also there's a £8 version the original sit downs had wood instead of metal and not forgetting the single player ones including celebration which incidentally I played a £5 version wedsnesday down weston and took out over £40 on a fiver. Back to the sit downs I've played an 8player but what's the biggests I hear there' one in blackpool about a 20player lol.

[mabby2000]

Oh yeah the earlier sit downs had wood trim and plastic Perspex.... Like the ones in the Olympica amusements in Weston super mare?
Very scratchy too!

[mabby2000]

Now I can picture the single sit down versions... Not the pusher version! Seen a few on eBay

[vectra666]

Yer that's where they are and the new one and forgot the pusher one also there,s a cloned version made by a different company community game type in they're new neon type cab

Edited by vectra666, 01 June 2013 - 09:48 AM.