hypedviper

Sorry another question based on my inability to remember the names of machines. 

After the eachway shuffle and double up there were some great JPM machines that were quite similar but with interesting little quirks, It make be there are EMus here, in which case please let me know. 

There were two with numbers on the reals but one one you got 10 nudges for getting something like 5 (probably corresponding with the word N-U-D-G-E. On another you got a nudge stop if you got to 5 but if you got to 6 (with 3 twos) you got 10 nudges. I remember these as 2p games (in Caister and Hemsby in around 1984 onwards) but they may have also been 10 or 5p games before and they may have been around earlier than that. 

Another good JPM game that was around by 1982 has numbers adding to 4 or 6 (I think) to get another real to spin to give nudges. This was perhaps the first machine I saw with a feature hold for numbers. A more complicated machine that came soon after, called Quest, had a similar theme but I think that was Bell Fruit or MayDay. 

Any help with the names of these machines or getting EMUs would be much appreciated. 

Hello, first of all let me say thank you for those of you who create FME's and provide info about them. You have saved me a fortune from the £2 a go ones in the betting shops and arcades.

I apologise if the questions I'm going to ask have some up elsewhere but I can't find the answers and it's not helped by the fact that I can't remember the names of some of the machines. 

In about 1986 there was a 2p game very much like Step and Skip, where it was easy to gamble up the nudges and then use nudges to skip to get close to the jackpot (£150) or the next thing down (probably 80p. When you got the jackpot it played that really likely Mexican tune (not sure what the tune is either, sorry).

If anyone knows the name or has a link to a Emu or has one to Step and Skip I would really appreciate it as these were great games. 

My next question is perhaps harder to answer as I was really young when these games were out and I can't remember much except the first generation of this sort of game was out by about 1983, probably before. It might have been called 'Cash Nudge', the ones I remember (in Yarmouth) were 10p a go. It was unusual in that it has massive round buttons that were really sensitive to the touch, so the gamble could go from 2 nudges to 99 really quickly. There were numbers on the reels, that would take you to something like 2 nudges or 20p, 4 nudges or 40p etc up to 99 nudges (after 8 nudges I think). There was a bug in the machine that meant if you got 3,4,3 it went to 99 nudges and even if you nudged in £2 in the subsequent credits it went right up to 99 nudges again repeatedly.

I don't even know the make of machine but I'm sure it wasn't barcrest. It might have been Bell Fruit but can't be sure. There were really similar machines by the same manufacturer where the buttons were still round but not as big and not as sensitive but the general pattern of being able to take the nudge or cash was the theme. 

If anyone remembers these or has an EMU (or knows where there's an actual machine please let me know. 

Also does anyone have an emu of the very first Line Up, which had a bug that meant it feature held on £2 if you dropped the coin in after the grid had spelt Line Up, if the numbers on the grid and reels added up to 46 or more?

Sorry for all the questions on my first post in ages but the site has got me reminiscing - and it's Easter so the 10 year old me wants to be on the seafront looking at all the new machines.