STEVE HOWARD

12 year old post or not its generated enough replies, besides i will post when and where i feel like it

Brett, you ever get to the Arcades around New Brighton??

We used to go there as kids and they were shitholes in general but had good machines (as did most arcades in the 1980's)

There used to be one place called ??Variety Fayre??

Had some great 2p machines in there, and a very generous 2p Eachway Shuffle type machine with a monster £1.50 Jackpot which it paid quite regularly.

I remember the variety used to go in there a lot and the one opposite, the engineer in there used to own an old ambulance lol, I would probably recognize you do you live on the Wirral?

blimey! i was the engineer there then! he also owned the Oasis and The golden Nugget on market street, was a good guy to work for. Alf Wadbrook owned an arcade around the corner from the Strike, I think it was called the Sovereign. It was also on Charing cross, i believe that miserable old bugger is still alive!

lol I used to do some work for paul in the strike moving machines to a few pub sites etc he would get brian to pay me for it in tokens ha ha, probably talking around 1992 ish?? I remember playin the step n skip in the sovereign round the corner it was on the left as soon as you walked in the front door and yes there was four stop n flips in the bright spot in newbo along with a nice bwb star-turn which I used to play also, HAPPY DAYS!!

You are pulling my leg. You made the post lol
[you/quote]YOU MEAN THE SLOW REEL SPIN TO MAKE YOU THINK ITS GOING TO GIVE HIDDEN TREASURES NEXT CREDIT WHICH IT SOMETIMES DOES BUT NOT ALWAYS?