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[mabby2000]

Yeah.. I loved the good old days of proper classic fruit's! £3, £4,£6 token jackpots as well as £1.50's £2 and £2.40 cash jackpots.
Great streaking machines back then! On a good day, around £150 profit This was in 90's. Beer was about £2 a pint.
Much more fun to play than the crappy fruits of late 2000's.

[yorkstar]

Yep arcades were great mid nighties, could go for a full day no probs at the seaside, tokens buldging out of pockets, pound coins in back pockets, streaks and gameplay all over.

same with the pubs could pull up a chair grab a pint and have a good session on fruits like, Simpsons, psych cash beast, red alert, wipeout and many more.

[yorkstar]

The fired up/ vamp it up/ hot stuff series and the 25/35 reds were the last decent enjoyable pub fruits to play.

[vectra666]

yep online gambling is taking over, why go into a arcade "yes you're playing the real machine nothing compares it!" but you're constantly watched, dodgy broken machines and you've got to got outside you house where as online you keep dry, no fear of getting your head kicked in over a reserved machine, percentages are around 92% compared to 70%-80 tops.

you can drink and eat without asking for a cold tea n soggy sarnie if you're lucky.

no coin jams or not paying out faulty lights, sticky buttons list goes on.

no one else has emptied the machine you're on, only you can do that

 finally most you can win in arcade is £500 at upto £2 a pop, online I recently won £1400 on 45p spins or £800 @25p a pop

 

End of the day the manufacturers making same old same old, the government with tax after tax on the industry and finally and maybe the front line workers the arcade itself with poor customer service and poor maintenance are ALL to blame for the decline in the amusement industry not the customers. a saying I always remember for my chipshop days "the customer is always right, listen to them" but they ain,t listening!! 

Edited by vectra666, 31 August 2015 - 06:07 PM.

[yorkstar]

Yep and unfortuantely the glory days are not going to return, to much water under the bridge and all that, shame but that's the reality, unless your in maidstone in reel fruits or obvisouly if your called fruit machine addict you won't like either, not enough dodgy extremes and 5 quid reds paying massive 185 tops(only joking kid).

The only save and grace for arcades these days is all these ticket redemption machines, I guess with no money coming out the machines and just the odd prize here and there, this is there money spinner.

[FruitMachineAddict]

wowww fruitmachineaddict your 23 you sound alot younger lol....and how would you know what the old ones were like you were still in nappies then....at least when they were out you could play with £20 to £30 and last for hours....rather see the old school machines than row after row of shite deal or no deals and other crappy clones.....

I'm still in nappies at 23, I like to wear them as I find them very snug, cosy, comfy, and cuddly, yeah I'm happy in my nap Nap nappy

[yorkstar]

Lol. Nice bit of rapping at the end there kid, who needs 5 quid reds you have a wasted talent there, X factor as just started as well get yer self on there, f ing love it mate, sorted yeh kid mint.

[policematrix]

I think its a good thing they released these crap frutiys, they have no appeal to me and if I want to play an EMU(not the real fruity) I will play it on my home PC rather than in the pub, I mean there is only 1 type of fruity left Deal or no deal lol

[FruitMachineAddict]

Comfy nappies

 

Ahhhh mann my nappy is so comfy

[ricardo de ponsa]

Ahhhh mann my nappy is so comfy

I think it needs changing!!!!!

Edited by ricardo de ponsa, 01 September 2015 - 01:34 PM.

[fuzion]

Take me back to early to mid 90's.  Some excellent machines, many manufacturers, things took an age to get exploits patched as it was pre-internet and mobile phones were a luxury.    I played extensively in the era, best for sure.

 

J

[wearecity]

Some years back I remember on fruit forums many people saying how can anyone still be addicted to fruit machines, when a group of us where trying to quit.

I certainly can now see and agree with that opinion with current AWPs, ALL DOND or clones.

For me now the only machines I have to watch out for are the £500 + jackpot machines. Thankfully though I don't go into arcades by myself as I said why before. I also don't go into bookies by myself.

Casinos on and offline are where I have to watch out, but recognising that I could still potentially lose hundreds a month I have blocks and limits in place.

I do feel sorry for anyone who still is a daily player and still plays all sorts of machines wherever they are based.

Gambling is a dirty, mucky business but a money maker for only a few, it certainly not glamorous.

[stevedude2]

I agree with this.  Back in the 90's I would never have been able to quit playing fruit machines.  There was so much playability and variety.  Arcades were packed, and you couldn't lose a month's wages in a day.  Pure entertainment.  I feel truly sorry for anyone coming into the game now, trying to eke out a living on this tired old shit.  They don't know how good it was back then.  I've practically given up now but it hasn't taken any effort.

[spa]

An Extreme and £5 Red pro that's worth £10k! That's a hell of alot of orange 1s right there.

[wearecity]

I know fruitmachineaddict, has acted a bit childish in this thread, but I really hate seeing young people, ruining and wasting, their young and possible whole life, gambling. I hope they aren't actually over their head already and eventually will realise, it's no good blaming the machine or the manufacturer for any losses.

 

When I was still addicted, the amount of times, I would swear and kick the machine and wish hell on Barcrest, Bell Fruit, Electrocoin, for producing these rip off machines. I still visit the gamcare forums and it's common, to see the blame being put on the bookies etc....for the amount of money people have lost. Until someone realises they can only blame themselves for the amount they put into machines or other gambling, they are unlikely to be ready to quit.

 

As for arcades, well, even when I was addicted, I would tell kids that were offering me advice (yeah right) on the 18+ only machines. Remember this conversation, because I can tell you, these things will ruining your life and your families life, if you ever allow yourself to get addicted to them, please don't let that happen to you, cause I've allowed them to rule my life so far.

 

So glad when I was young, these fobt weren't around, I reckon, I'd have been in so much debt, I would never have ever been able to turn things around.

[stevedude2]

An Extreme and £5 Red pro that's worth £10k! That's a hell of alot of orange 1s right there.

Go easy on him though mate.  I mean he's clearly living the dream here; absolutely smashing it to pieces, £15 tops all over the place on these 10 year-old machines at the height of summer.

[stevedude2]

I know fruitmachineaddict has acted a bit childish in this thread, but I really hate seeing young people, ruining and wasting, their young and possible whole life, gambling. I hope they aren't actually over their head already and eventually will realise, it's no good blaming the machine or the manufacturer for any losses.

Couldn't agree more with the above.  I've seen it happen to a few young people over the years.  It's horrible to see and you can see it coming a mile off.  I've spent 3 years as a 'professional' player (God I hate that term), 5 years working in an arcade and 12 years so far working for a manufacturer and although it might seem contradictory and hypocritical I still do all I can to warn young people off gambling, especially £500 jackpots and roulette.  They cannot possibly have the money to do it, and a few bad losses can set them back for years.  All it takes is a bad run, a couple of maxed-out credit cards and you're f***ed.  I firmly believe that the minimum age for gambling in this country should be 21, like in America.  No normal 18-year-old can honestly say that they have nothing better to spend their money on at that time of their life.  Yet I see many of them falling into the same predictable trap.

 

Fruit machines are a waste of a life just as much as they are money.  Those years are impossible to get back.  Poker is very much the same; students doing 12-hour sessions online in their bedrooms to eke out some sort of acceptable hourly rate is commonplace, and they think it's great that they can do it, and that they're beating the game.  They'd be better off doing a course, earning some proper money and having a life.

[yorkstar]

I don't go to arcades certanly as much these days, I must admit that's mostly because I've worked constantly for last 15 odd year 5 sometimes 6 days a week, it's a good thing cause I would defintely ended up back in them with more time or at a loose end.

No matter how bad arcades are you never loose that gambling urge, and after 20 plus year, very hard to shake of. So on various weekends arcades bingos whatever, I still sometimes venture in, mostly chasing streaks on bar x 7s, or trying several quids in different fruits looking for ready or full ones to take a punt on, but gladly I've certanly cut down from back in the day.

On line gambling as been dangerous In the past, so easy accesible, very easy to have a few beers and get involved, 5am in the morning and maybe 700 hundread plus involved on Lady Luck charm waiting for the big pink ball drop.

I still have a bash online now and again, but have put a 20 pound limit on 3 sites.

[yorkstar]

If I could turn back time I certanly wouldn't of put that first pound in barcrest tick tack cash all them years ago maybe 1993 ish, I mean yeh there av been a few gud times getting pissed in the pub when younger and bashing the fruits. Tokens streaks, e.t.c
But so much money wasted were talking tens and tens of thousands, and so much time wasted in arcades, pubs playing fruits, cud of been time used chasing girls, concentrating on getting a good job, e.t.c.

Life's not to bad but without fruites I think it be a lot different now, but hey that's life, hignsight and all that.

[yorkstar]

In terms of the bookies I've never got into the fobts really probably because I have played many of the games already online at home, and have no interest playing them while out and about, not as much anyway, plus the fact many of the games on there are pretty boring, all geared mostly for that free spin round.

Yeh I've cetanly had a few big blowouts on the fobts over the years, but not to many, luckily I've never got involved with roulette in these, I've heard horror stories like a grand done in on dinner hour type of stories, roulette seems extremely popular if u ever pop in bookies always seems to be someone on it.