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[yorkie07808]

I Thought this might be a good idea for a topic.
what was the very first fruit machine
you played.

My first one was nudges unlimited
and it was in my local launderette
I think i had about a pound in 10p's
and got £1.50 back. since we didnt have any
arcades back then (early 80's) in Stevenage
and i was far to young to go into pubs ( I was only
12 at the time) i could only play in my
local launderette.

Well that was my first experiance on
a fruit machine how about the
rest of you.

[mocochoco]

my uncle had a very 'old school' one arm bandit (cant remeber wot its called now actualy) and when i used to go round there he'd give me £2.50 in 10p's to play it and got to keep what i won from it. only problem is i never won!! :x

[Bencrest]

First one I played...that would be one of those Aristocrat Bar X O one armed bandits [I believe they were made by Aristocrat].

2p Play [only coin it accepted], 20p for 3 Xs and I think £2 for 3 Bars [although it paid out the £2 in the forum of 2ps, 10ps and 20ps :S]

Probably about 6 when I used to play that at Thompsons arcade in Bridlington. In the same arcade I used to play :

1) A Rifle Range machine, think it was 20p ago, and I never won the JP [whatever that was, probably a quid!].

2) A Bubblegum machine, I remember there was a glass cabinet, a tube full of bubble gum, and you had a joystick with a fire button. I think you had to hit a moving submarine or something?

3) Tooty Fruity, a machine with about 4 slots at the top, and the coins [2p on the one I played] would fall down a panel behind a pane of glass with several fruits in it [in the form of metal discs with lights in I think]. When the coin hit a disc, it lit it up. I think you had to light up 3 fruits in a row and you got something like 10p as a prize? [The fruits were probably in rows of 4, although I can't remember ]


Hours of fun for a bag of 2ps

[stevedude2]

Good question Yorkie!

15 or 16 years ago there was a caravan-site a few minutes from where I lived. I used to go there with friends and play pool and video-games. They had some real classics - Asteroids, Mr Do, Pac-Man, Moon Patrol and Food Fight. I never even gave the fruit-machines in there a second look, but one day my friend's older brother started playing them. There was a 2p Cashcade, Aladdins Cave (my all time favourite by PCP - I wish it could be emulated), a Goldmine (BWB), a 2p Lucky Lady (same as Fruit Swop), a 50p jackpot game called Golden Shot and a really old 2p play Each Way Nudger-type game. In later months other classics such as Route 66 would replace the previous two. Anyway, being a C64 freak I found I could hit all the skills. After helping my friend win a couple of quid he gave me 20p which I put in Goldmine for £2.32 back.

And that was it! HOOKED for life! 8)

[No1Stoney]

Hmm

Well I was pretty much the same as you bencrest in my early years, alays had bags and bags of 2ps and used to put them in anything that takes them..

The first fruit machine that I remember playing is tuppeny nudger but got bored of that machine very quickly. I soon moved onto the other more modern fruit machines such as pot of gold and excalibur, they seemd to be ones that I used to enjoy playing.

They seemed to be so much more profitable that the new machines that are available... One new machine that I did used to play was one of the 'beaver' machines (Blue case?) as it was decaled wrong and although the ladder went up 50p, £1, £1.50, £2 etc.. When you collected anything it was double what it said (upto £5 of course)

But with the modern machines you end up losing a tonne of money anyways. The only machine that I tended to make a neat little profit on was Golden X and the monopoly clone.. The best multiplayer mcahine that I have played.

-No1Stoney

[Irvster]

2p one armed bandits in Butlins.....1 cherry 2p ...2 cherries 4p....3 cherries 10p....what gameplay....lol

Irvster '05'

[DildoDez]

Could well have been the mighty club cops 'n' robbers, with my dad. Maybe be about 5/6 at the time?

[colins_mini]

my first fruit machine was the fantastic blue streak i had got bored with the star wars game and put my last 20p in this machine and i won!!!
my first club machine was the classic that is cops and robbers

[Bencrest]

Yeah, I remember being with mum and dad while they played CCNR, and I 'd say I was probably 7 or 8 at the time

[kensplace2]

I honestly cannot remember which was the 1st machine I played on, but the first machine I REMEMBER playing on, and fondly remember, was a HUGE machine, about 2 or 3 times the width and much taller than a modern fruity. IT WAS HUGE! It was a fruit machine, that payed out winnings as green shield stamps.. Any one old enough to remember those stamps?

It was at a arcade at a caravan site at Berwick upon tweed.

[tracey2]

Piper Heights caravan site on the outskirts of Blackpool in the club, i put 10p and had £1 out . Haven't got a clue what the machine was or how i won, all i remember is it was next to green beret the arcade game. These were the days when Blackpools arcades were full of arcade games like Street Fighter and Simpsons and fruit machines were only in the adult sections.