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[slikmik]

Hi all,

Hope this is in the right section if not feel free to delete, just curious as to whom has been/is addicted to the fruit machines and cant resist throwing pound after pound in for a measely few quid back... I for one am.

It's bad, its depressing its a pain in the bum :-(

So as of now im going to try and cut down (where've i heard that before!) but if it wasnt for fruities i wouldnt be in debt.

Any help / Tips or encouraging words?
People been in the same situation?

Thank You
Mike

[Pgamblin]

I used to spend about £250 a week just playing machines over 1 hour a day and usually with little return.

I signed up here looking for cheats but found emu software and roms.. Since then i saved my money and just played the machines available for download..

This was about a year ago and with the money i have saved i recently upgraded to a nice big 3 bedroom house in a nice area and life is very good at the moment.

Before i was in a dark stingy 1 bed bungalow with every penny i had in the cash box in the local pub...

Think about what you could do with the money you spend

[captainhaddock]

I've been playing the fruits for 30 years now,and I reckon that I've put over £100,000 into them over that time(it's probably nearer 130k)but I've never let it affect my family,there was always food on the table,and I had and still have'nt any debts,I can honestly say that I've enjoyed every minute of it,I play them just once a month these days,emulation helps as does having the real thing to fill up and play.

[Barmypluto]

[align=center:275a80ea37]Hi Mike

I been a fruity Player since the age of Eight and i am now thirtysix. I used to be a Three Hundred a week player. To help you cut down playing in those arcades try taking Twenty quid out with you and leave all other money and credit cards at home. I go out now with forty quid in pocket and if i lose it don't bother me. Keep hanging in there mate, life does get better if you can stop or cut down.

Perhaps Fruit emu could open up there own arcade in the real world where all of us Fruity members could meet up and play.

(what do you think Duplu or wozza???)

Perhaps this could be a poll??

Barmypluto (Tim)[/align:275a80ea37]

[slikmik]

Thanks guys!

What a friendly bunch of people, thanks for the kind words.

Time will tell i suppose but i agree its incredible when you think of the amount of money that you shove in the fruities.

What gets me is the fact how shitty £5 JP ones are... i mean £4 a board for a £5 JP? :-? Wheres the fun?! If they were playable you could have a great time in arcades playing on the like of homers meltdown etc etc

Ah well
Cheers
Mike

[Wozza]

Silkmilk,

There are a lot of fruity addics / ex-addicts in our membership, and a lot of stories, some good some not so good.

The way to give up is usually have a reason to do it, and a real need to do so.

No money, Friends/Family, Debt etc are all usually catalists to start the quitting process.

No matter what you decide to do there is always help here as many of us know what you are qoing through, and have been through it!

Good Luck

A real Fruit-Emu arcade, can't see that happening somehow Barmypluto!

[Pgamblin]

Would need one hell of a server to host all the files unzipped and the arcade running with the emulators available..

You could of course set challenges maybe in a gaming forum where you say take this rom. Attached rom.zip and then play it.. only put £10 in and report how much you made..

[cambridgecableguy]

i used to be addicted to a couple of machines at our local snooker club (sometimes spending over £600 in one hit at em),and eventually i said "F**K IT...thats the last time im touching these things",the owner of then replied "oh dont worry,you'll be back to line my pockets some more".With this i threw the remainder of my pint of him and wiped the smug grin of his face in doing so. He proceeded to ban me from the club indefinately,and voila.....i've saved a fortune ever since !

[silkyuk9]

Well, this seems a familiar story, there is another thread bout this somewhere. Anyway, As i stated in my thread relating to this subject, i started work in a sea side town at the age of 13, peeling spuds in chip shop, i think back in 83 i was getting £1-25 per hour. During the summer months i would get about £40 a week. It took me about 45 minutes to spend it in the arcades. One day my grandad said to me, 'why do you think in a bookies there are 3 pay in counters and only one pay out'. I realised then that i was the mug, the arcade owners driving around in new Mercs holiday villas in Tenerife and i was going home glum having lost £40 in less than a hour. Any way that was the end of gambling on machines for me. My son is nearly 15 and usually goes to the arcades with his mates, comes home saying 'won the JP on so and so' i say how much you got left. 'nothing, spent it all'. I try to teach my kids that gambling is an illness and relate stories of the destruction ive seen during working for the NHS, of those who are addicted not just to machines but to illegal substances and alcohol.

Ive seen suicides of young males that were in such a state with their addictions, not wanting help until its too late. families that have been torn apart due to homes been reposessed. fights where teenagers have had bad dealings due to stolen good.

If you want to see how bad addictions can be go to your local morgue and ask the mortition about it. Go and see the families that are now suffering, Go to the debt collectors and ask them if they've waived the debt.

I think if you go out with say £5, and when you come out of the arcade broke, and 9 times out of 10 you will, and feel glum then you know you have a problem, get it sorted, its your family that suffer, and if you are happy that your family are suffering carry on.

In the end i think go to Lunn Poly with that five quid and say, i want to book a holiday for my wife and kids, chose one and pay the £5 deposit. each time you have five quid to waste put in on the holiday and supprise your wife and kids, look at their faces when you say, Hey kids were off to Benidorm.

[mrmystery83]

The way i've started looking at it now is that with the amount i've put in over the years i'll never truely be 'up'. I got £125 out of a club casino crazy the other week and everyone thought i was well up. I said to a bloke at the bar "it's not even what i've put in it in the last month". So i wasen't up at all. 3 times in the last few months i've made £75 in the same arcade and every time i end up at least £40 down.

Gets to ya i live at home with me old fella. He doesn't give me much grief over it but he said his dad used to gamble and it affected the whole family. In the end he accepts it's my money and that's that. I suppose if i got a gf i'd be better especially if she hated playing fruitys it'd cause rows maybe but ultimately i reckon it'd help me stop.

I text my mate one night and admitted i was an addict. She rang me the next day to see if i was ok. When we was out i never played them cos she used to go mad at me it saved me a fortune. People who don't really play fruitys don't understand how hard it is to stop. If i hear one more know all say"there's only one winner" blah, blah i'm gonna do my nut!! You don't need telling what you already know. You get treated like your some sort of idiot who doesn't realise how much your wasting but you do know. You know the feeling going down the pub and putting all your ale money in a fruity and having to sit in on a sunny afternoon cos your skint!! the dejected feeling you get time, after time leaving arcades, pubs well down and swearing to yourself you won't put another pound in. But you do. Deep down you know you will.

I'm not in debt. Yet. But i reckon my addiction will get worse before it gets better. It makes a change to talk to people who understand what it's really like to be hooked and know what it does to ya. Sorry for the bad punctuation and the length of this post.

Here endeth my sermon lmao

[guitarkid]

i was always told fruit was good for you LOL....

on a more serious note, its never good to get into debt full stop, let alone an addiction where you see little or nothing back... everyone is in debt somehow, but they may have a big tv, or computer or a fab holiday to show for it...

i personally have not been addicted to fruitys, ive blown money on them but nothing has come out of it other than being skint for the rest of the week.....

you can only do what you feel best, counselling, just flat out steer clear of them, or cut down, have less access to your funds, its silly but may work... but if you enjoy the machines and your debt isnt as bad as you think then look at it this way... when you give up the machines your gonna find something to sub it with, and thatll cost money aswell....

sorry if this dosent help, i have a pretty strange life view sometimes..

[mrmystery83]

a good point you made there about needing something to fill the gap. but i bet it wouldn't cost half as much as i spend on fruitys mind you!! (unless it was a gf lmao)

[dave1de]

The idea is simple.

Play Machines for ENJOYMENT. If you lose say £20, as long as u enjoyed yourself playin the machines, you still come out a winner.

I used to get annoyed when I didn't win, but now im OK with it, also, this year I am up on what I have put in Machines, I dunno how much, but its a first!

[fistandantilus]

The only way you will ever truely stop any addiction is to want to stop. I as kid was addicted to fruities. For years the vast majority of my money was spent down the rtcades and it got to the point when i didn't even expect to win anymore. Worst was when i first got myself a proper job and sometimes would spend 75% of a weeks wage in an arcade within an afternoon of been paid.

I guess what kicked the habit for me was when i got my own place. The money was needed elsewhere. I started by limiting how much i could lose, by going to the arcades with say £10 in my pocket with no bankcards etc. I also limited the ammount of times i would visit the arcades, maybe once a month. Now I am cold turkey and feel much better for it. I don't even get the urge to play in the pub even after watching someone filliing it up all night.

I guess a big help for me was been older than perhaps a lot of you, the type of fruit machine i got hooked on has changed immensely. Fruit machines these days are rarely innovative or even fun. There is no challenge in winning, it simply pays you on its cycle. I think that is why i haven't lapsed at all into my old ways.

So for anyone thinking of giving up the best way is to find another more enjoyable outlet for you money. (more referring to say a hobby like computing or a car or something, rather than beer, mucky women, or worse lol try not to exchange one vice for another ) Try to find something to spend your money on where you get something lasting in return

[slikmik]

Wow this threads got quite a bit of feedback Cheers guys, nice to know theres similar people out there, well my fruity strike lasted 48 hours 8O
But its ok because it's only the odd quid here and there from now on really :oops: Honest...

It's strange because even if you do win... you have a pocket full of pound coins... what are you going to do... go and spend it on something worthwhile or wonder around during that day and spend it n other machines? I know which i do! Even if i go to change it up at the bar the barmaids there giving it "oh i dont know if we have enough..." obviously just so i am tempted to whack it back in the machines... typical :roll:

I think as people say you have to WANT to give up, i don't... i know its sad but i get pleasure from playing and as someone said if you dont mind losing and dont EXPECT TO WIN then you'r ok i recken, aslong as your not silly with it all

Anyways thanks for all the replies!

Regards
Mike

[dave1de]

If I have a big win i save the winnings and dont spend them, if I win under £5 usually i put the money into other machines.

[Kouryou]

Hehe this is all sounding strangly familiar! I've only been playing the machines for a year or so now, it first started when I had the extra cash to spend on them, and yeah I enjoyed the buzz it gave me, now that I have a more expensive place to run and a girlfriend to look after I'm cutting down, but it is very hard to do!

My girlfriend works in a pub (as I have in the past) and we've both seen our fair share of addicts putting way to much money in to try and win a £25 JP or in my case £250, sometimes putting in double that which is something I've never understood!

But yeah quitting is tough, I'm a smoker too and that's one thing I'll never give up! and the temptation of 'just one more pound' is very strong, even stronger at the moment, due to the fact I keep winning!!!

Good luck dude

[g-man]

I started playing nearly 15 years ago,soon became an addict,driven to brink of desperation,became a pro-player for a few years,until finally quitting at the turn of this new century.
To those of you who think you can handle it by only playing 'for fun' or with loose change,I say you're deluding yourselves.
Fruit machines are addictive by nature.
You have to ask yourself why you play.
If you think you're playing for 'fun',then you're an idiot(and you know it).
If you think you're playing because it's easy money and there are emptiers galore out there for every machine,then you're almost certainly a double idiot.
Nobody has ever made or will ever make a life-changing amount of easy money from playing fruit machines.Many 1000s have lost life-changing amounts into the things.
The only people who make money from machines are those who work at them(the owners and the operators).
A tiny handful of pro-players *have* made 'proper' money from playing,but even most of them can't hang on to it,because they are all addicts.
So please,take it from me,you are *never* going to get rich from playing fruit machines.
At best,if you have an inside contact at Barcrest who sells you the latest 'trick',you'll make a decent income exploiting that trick(as long as it lasts),but even then,you won't get rich.
But you haven't got inside contacts at barcrest or bellfruit,have you?
So why delude yourselves into thinking you can win?
You can't.
You'll hate yourself every time you lose on them,and losing will only make you want to come back for revenge.It's a vicious circle.
Don't get sucked in,don't pretend to yourselves that being a 'pro' is a viable possibility.It isn't.Not on the long term.
Give it up,before it gives you up.

[dave1de]

I wouldnt say it makes you an idiot if you play for fun.

Loads of people play them for fun, you just have to control the amount you spend.