edwardb

Not possible, really. Your best bet is to reprogram the coin acceptor to see guilders as Euros. Which machines do you have?

Oh my god - I wrote the code for some of these - mainly export versions. They were done by us at Mazooma way back when. Last thing I did before I went to Global!

Yeah the tilt was always a pain; we had to do some fairly extreme Scorpion 4 hacking to get the swing arm to work (trying to make it work like a reel's stepper motor) was a pain in the backside.

The escalator was fun, too. It used to jam up all the time...

Nope, sadly not - all the FOBT games are on encrypted hard drives (for legal compliance reasons), so it's almost impossible to get them aside from the developer.

BGT made some very good games - a lot of the same people were at Maygay, Mazooma and other places. Good pedigree of staff.

The lead artist at BGT has been around the industry and did a lot of other games we would all remember; he is now at Barcrest/SG. Nice bloke and a great artist.

BGT's hardware was the one thing that let it down. BGT was funded by Spain's biggest (at that time) gaming company, Cirsa. They gave BGT all the hardware and cabinets (remember the "piano keys" cabinets??) and the main problem was that the software code was all written in Spanish! So it was hard for the English guys in Cannock to understand it all....but they did, eventually.

The cabinets were never acceptable to pub companies, the PCB-based lamp boards were a pain to work on - the UK is very different from Europe in that regard. So BGT never really sold any machines into pubs, and eventually Cirsa pulled the plug.

Ron Bastin ("Big Ron"), the man behind BGT, died a few years back now.

@edwardab so do you say this was ok to do? so many machines today give red reels or so called advantages to play on IMHO it is wrong 

No, but the thing is, even if there was no last credit incentive, you may well think there was. Mechanical reel machines only have 16/24 symbols per reel so the chances of spinning in a pair is pretty high, regardless of any software induced incentive. We used to get letters complaining about this when there was no LCI code in! 

Also, today with the Gambling Commission, neither of the last 2 companies making AWPs will do anything illegal. The penalties (both commercial and *personal* - i.e. jail time) make it not worth the risk.