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[stevedude2]

That's a talking point right there! Stairway to Heaven, is/was a fantastic machine, had all the Pyramid/Labyrinth features (with repeat chances) plus the skill climb was better and the reel skill was fair

The one I played was on 5p £6 so the hit was pretty crap! I remember the skill climb got really tough further in, you had to wedge the start button and jump it because it was like lightening!

The same-same-any bottom award was quite reasonable and may have improved the hit slightly. IIRC if you got the jackpot symbols in view you got mystery features? The arcade this was in used to test for Electrocoin so they had pretty much every game in this cabinet at some stage -

Labyrinth
Pyramid
Secret Castle
Pennies From Heaven
Stairway to Heaven
Sphinx
Mr Do!
Spanish Gold
(Some Poker game with 5 reels that I can't remember the name of)
Space Trek

And do you remember Dungeon Master, with a little LCD screen in the middle of the top glass?

Also was there a Grand Prix themed game that came out? I'm sure there was but I only have a vague memory of it...

Great games all round!

[ady]

I'm going to go back to a previously mentioned One....

GREEN SHEILD STAMPS

For all you under 30, the stamps were saved in a book and could be exchanged at shops similar to Argos etc...

Penny a spin and all wins were these stamps...

[Atari]

I remember the stamps and the machines, i won loads on my first go, didnt want the stamps so i stuck them everywhere i could round great yarmouth, i also remember the copper/silver slots, get swords in any position and get a copper/silver feature, 3p for copper and 10p for silver, as for the ones like a clock, there was one with a proper clock face, and one with numbers 0,2,3,4,8 and 12 called bullion and the one with fruit was called fruit bowl. there is one that i dont think is really old but its the size of a pinball machine and u roll your penny and it has to land on the lines but not cross over any and it would throw 3p or 6p down the glass, i didnt play that much coz when i did get a win the 3 or 6p would go all over the arcade and id never find it. i remember some weird torture chamber things, u put your penny (old money that is) in and watch someone being tortured, and they say games today are bad!! ok ok im an old git and have played on slots in the 60s but i cant remember what they were..
Look here for some very old machines - http://www.melright....ryans/index.htm

[Shooer magooer]

I've just looked at the website you've linked, but that isnt the one i was talking about, the one i used to play was electric not mechanical. but i can see where they got the idea from.

[M1Adness]

Ok, well i must have been about 10 or 11.. The first machine i put my money in was th3e classic Spotted Dick and How Big Is Your Rock.. As they where alike!

I was addicted to these machines, until a helper came along for me!

Jungle Jackpots was the best ever machine i played on, I use to empty these like mad, with about £50-£60 at one time, on a £5 jackpot!

If anyone has a Jungle Jackpots.. Please Do Contact me!!!!

There is one on ebay now.

[Nudgeman]

Dungeon Master? How could I forget? Curious machine. Similar style of feature entry to Del's Millions.
I'm sure an arcade down in Bournemouth still has machines that pay out in stamps. I won a few stamps (didn't Alton Towers used to have machines that paid out in stamps?) and got a small rubber snail for my efforts (£6.50). Bargain.
First machine? I don't honesly remember the name. I put a big old 10p in (had to stand on a chair) that I found in a locker in the swimming pool and won 4p. Hooked ever since. It was next to one that had a treasure chest theme. I won 12p for three bells once. This isn't helping much. Err it was 2p play and had big colourful round buttons with no writing actually on the buttons. I was about 5 at the time and had just been swimming with my Mum. I was born in 1979 does that help? what was it called?
A few years later they had Test Pilot in there. There are no machines there any more.

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Anyone remember 'Magic Melons' by Cranway Games? It had two reels with pictures of faces and melons and if the expressions matched you won 4p back and if the colour of the melons matched you won 6p. Get two melons exactly the same and you'd win 10p.

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For all I know that machine could have existed, sounds good though doesn't it? Melons with facial expressions all tied up in an amusement game with prizes as an added bonus. Nice. 2p play, 10p jackpot. You could gamble in increments of 2....oh no it didn't exist, sorry.

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There was a 2p play monkey one in Felixtowe. 4 reels. In an arcade in Felixtowe, near that big swimming pool with chutes and a wave machine. Look it's half past one in the morning, you're keeping me up with your questions, I'm going to bed, you may talk amongst yourselves, but quietly please. If anyone remembers the names of any of those machines, particularly the monkey one in Felixtowe or the one I won 4p on in St. Nicholas Park then do please enlighten everyone. Nighty Night and for a mickey take, that melon one was a seriously good idea.


The jackpot music used to go blip blip bleeep blippety bloop ble....oh no, it was fiction. I forgot once again. Night all......