stevedude2

I remember Marie2003 or someone like that from years back. I know she did PCP Cash Smash and several others. I'll have a look on FE... Cheers for including me on the list

Some of those games mentioned in the OP sound like they might be Dutch and unemulated, which might make finding them tricky...

I remember Maygay's M1a Coronation Street being top of the charts in the back of Coinslot for weeks on end back in the day. I think @A:E did a fabulous DX of it many years ago which still looks amazing even today. That would be a good DX to showcase - 1996 I think it was. Well-known brand, lots of units sold, instantly recognisable. On that subject I recall Bell Fruit selling over 2000 units of their Eclipse Monopoly, as did Vivid with Pie Factory. They were all around the pubs. In terms of games that are memorable for innovation and popularity - orignal DOND, Roller Coaster, Psycho Cash Beast. So hard to pick only a few. You probably want to have a different manufacturer for each pic. Best of luck with the ad

@Ginge - Welcome to the site By all means use my classic layout if you fancy doing a DX. There aren't many pics of Aladdins Cave beyond those that you posted, in fact there were practically none until 2 or 3 years ago when a machine miraculously turned up - I'd been waiting for years to see one again. I think it was Roger off the Mecca who ended up with it, but he sold it on a bit later and I don't know who bought it. That unit is very likely the only one left in existence. There's a guy called Steve Lancett on the Mecca who has a Masterspy and a Bars of Gold; he's a top bloke and would probably be able to sort you some decent pics of those two games if you asked him nicely. If memory serves I think someone (might even be Steve Lancett again) has a brand new kit for Masterspy still in the box (or at least they did a while back) and that might be a better option for decent quality images, especially reel bands than Aladdins Cave. Either way help yourself to any of my Aladdins Cave, Masterspy and Bars of Gold layouts if you fancy having a crack - there's plenty of chaps on here who will be happy to help you along the way

I remember Crack the Egg and I think there's a pic somewhere but a layout was never done for it. There was Tuppenny Cracker and Smash and Grab though, which have been done. Might need an older version of MFME though

3 Frog Hops and still change out of £100

Does it have to be one of the values in the drop-down box? I wanted to donate something clever like £17.77

I remember these Spanish machines quite well. They had panascopic 'reels' which projected the image of a fruit into a panel, probably to get around some Spanish law of the time about having reel-based gaming machines. I went to Tenerife on holiday as a kid back in '87 or '88 and they were in abundance in the resort bars and whatnot. There was one in the hotel I stayed at called Limon y Baby - 3 'reels' with a window above which every now and then would display a fruit which you could swap for one of the symbols in the reels - a novel way of getting around the nudge patent and similar to Project Coin's Sevens Above and the like. There were also two 'apple trails' which filled up over time to award the player 500 pesetas or something like that. My brother and I would wait for a trail to be near the top and then play them out. We were only 9 or 10 at the time! These games used to streak as well for 2-3000 pesetas, which was £15-£20 back then. You have to be seriously into fruits in an unhealthy way to remember details like that when you're that age but well, there you go eh? Might try and see if I can find any more info

Someone should ring Reflex up and ask for an update. 'Yeah, this is Bob from MFME Leisure...erm...can you send me the latest program for Cash Encounters please?' I remember the green QPS Crazy Fruits doing something similar on one of the Banana Bonus features, the reel-stepper one I think it was. The win amount would try and count up to the moon.

I remember at the ATEi one year they had a load of Red Dwarf cabinets on the Red Gaming stand, and then the game died a death. Maybe they had problems with the license? I seem to recall there being a bit of a backstory to this game, maybe posted on another site?

This is a superb addition to the site I can see layouts and games from 20 years ago that I'd completely forgotten about. It's a really quick and easy way of visualizing what's out there. Many thanks to everyone involved, in particular Geddy - it's a great idea.

Yie ar Kung-Fu title music on the C64 was just absolute class - a rendition of Jean Michel Jarre's Magnetic Fields 4 by Martin Galway. I could listen to it for hours. I often listen to a selection of my favourite SID tunes on Sidplay. Some of them have very little musical merit whatsoever and simply take me back to the days of being a kid and playing the actual game. Others are both nostalgic and superb to listen to in their own right, such as these - Arcade Classics - Rob Hubbard Armalyte - Martin Walker Firelord - Ben Daglish Flying Shark - Jim Evans Forbidden Forest - Paul Norman Fruit Machine Simulator (LOL) - Matt Gray - reminds me of Love Missile by Sigue Sigue Sputnik! Glider Rider - David Whittaker Hyber Blob - Steve Barrett Lazy Jones - David Whittaker < All of the Ocean Loaders were superb, as was Platoon by Jonathan Dunn > R-Type - Chris Hulsbeck Super Cycle - Bob Vieira The Way of the Exploding Fist - Neil Brennan Great days :sniff:

Fuck me, I never thought I'd see a picture of 'That's Life!' ever again. Great thread