If anybodys going to spain this year particularly tenerife, you can play an exact clone of electrocoins Labyrinth, in the arcades there it's called dungeon and has exactly the same sounds and layout and looks particularly new for there standards of fruit machines. Could'nt quite belive it when i saw it! all the memories started flooding back as this was one of the games i used to play loads in the 'good ol days'.
Just happend to enter my local shipleys arcade the other day, there used to be a bingo area right at the back if im not mistaken, guess whats here now?, yes you've guessed it wall to wall 500 pound ultra modern touch screen fruitys at 50p a go. i guess the grannys will have even less of there pension now!!. I also couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this bloody great elvis touch screen fruity consisting of about 4 player points each playing a different game (27 way multi fruity, roulette and two others i cant remember). Seems like the face of gaming is changing and for me i could not care less for it, this is all about scamming the meek and unhinged and promising false hope, these types of machines should be left in the casino not in the bloody high street. Gambling on the fruitys for me used to be about fun and knowing when to stop. i am lucky, others i am sure are not so strong willed.
we used to cover half an old 10p in silver insulation tape and it used to knock up 50p in our college cafeteria vending machines!! very profitable until they caught on and swapped the machines, then the new 10ps came out soon after! i wish id have known about that years earlier!! i do believe that the particular type of coin mech relied on the actual weight of the coin (a sort of tipper balance thingy)