When Vivid was a twinkle in the eye...

[kidgloves]

So...some young upstarts want to hear some war stories eh?? Well...I'll show the young upstarts....
1st Arcade I played in regularly had the following in on 2p a go £1.50 Jackpot....Win-a-gain....Master Spy....Spoof....Aladdins Cave...Hotpot....Bank Raid/Money Trapper....and when I got bored of having endless 10p's weighing my pockets down I'd shoot into the other room for some top video game playing on Outrun....Hypersports...Gauntlet....Soldier of the Light...Pacworld...and all that other stuff you can get off MAME these days. Nothing better than wanking the shit out of the buttons in a 4 player game on Hypersports....get a perfect in skeet shooting...hit that extra bird for those bonus thousands to get you into the world records....snag that ufo in Javelin....Coax that mole out in the pole vault....get the ladies to show all in weight lifting....get a duplicate finish time in swimming for that elusive frog and do half a somersault off the vault and land on your head for the spider....don't make em like they used to.

[kidgloves]

Actually before somebody upstages me, the first arcade I played in was a Nobles under supervision of my mother.....she played the origional super nudge gambler whilst I hit the likes of firecracker and jitterbug. Jesus.

[crazyjimmy]

Gotta be a bonus when you are getting the pension on top of bandit profits... Better than the dole anyway lol

EDIT: To be fair though, nothing beats the Outrun arcade, athough the new one (Outrun II or whatever) comes close

[Topthelot]

Hypersports....get a perfect in skeet shooting...hit that extra bird for those bonus thousands to get you into the world records....snag that ufo in Javelin....Coax that mole out in the pole vault....get the ladies to show all in weight lifting....get a duplicate finish time in swimming for that elusive frog and do half a somersault off the vault and land on your head for the spider....don't make em like they used to.

sends a shiver down my spine, mr gloves

we used to use half of one of those plastic eggs with the cheap crappy trinket in to get top speed on the 100 metres. rubbing it backward and forward so bloody fast the heat generated would meltm the damn things. and gauntlet - now there was a game so addictive it should have come with a health warning. 'wizard.......is about to die'

Ahhhhh.........

played a bank raid at the weekend - mablethorpe is bloody full of 'em, along with every barcrest sub 2001. all set on 'fleece you blind' £5 JP mode

[Stoive]

Warrior is it....

I remember playing on the original star wars arcade in Hornsea when i was a wee lad, completed the game and it gave me a quid in 10p's!!! I remember all these teenagers (probably grown up into munters nowadays) standing in stunned silence as an 8yr old completed the game. Fantastic.

[kidgloves]

Are you talking about a fruit machine? The Star Wars I knew was a vector graphics shoot em up game which I could play perfectly....got chucked off after 3 and a half hours ...it goes to wave 99 then doesn't clock up anymore..just stays there..it's a never ending game and certainly the video game never 'paid out'

[Stoive]

No it was definately the old video game - shoot the tie fighters until you reach the death star, fly up and over and round the red and yellow barriers in the trench and then blow up the death star. I swear to god it paid out, only £1 but i was happy. it's a little black booth with a flight controller with red buttons on it. same machine?

[Topthelot]

Staw Wars never paid out, i spent half my life in one of those cabinets when it first came out (never nearly as good as kidgloves tho!)


'use the force.....luke'

[Stoive]

maybe i'm mistaken i was only about 8yrs old. Even if i didn't win a quid, I earnt some respect, and that's what really matters... lol

[empsburna]

The closest I got to that gam was through a hand-me-down spectrum. I rememeber flying through the death star (sorta like a tunnel effect) and it making me feel sick. Damn i'm going to have to dig that out.