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From 1984 Money Bank & Super Bank

Everyone has missed this one.... It's obvious why its upside down? It's from down under😁😁😁😁😁😁 Sorry! Couldnt resist! Now everybody laugh Otherwise I'll get into trouble 😆😆😆😆😆

Probably the quickest way for two mates to fall out in a pub.

Morning everybody, I've probably read everything in the section, with fond memories, and dare I say it, thought I'd might have a quick contribution, and share my hazy recollections, of this brief tech. With a tip of the hat to Cavey.. Let me say, I've not played all the Castle machines, Crackerpot, and the club machine being very elusive, but I did play the rest. Late 80's I did the rounds between Liverpool - Southport - New Brighton, and played in most of the arcade in those areas. Southport, was the most interesting, with the biggest arcades, diversity, and there must of been over 20 arcades back in the early 80's. Caesers Palace, was on the main strip (Neville Street), and they had two, a Revolution, and a Tensation. The large LED, screen, was the attraction, sounds where different, seemed taller, and ahead of anything else in the arcade. Reel symbols, where high quality, and well lit. And watching the gameplay, I knew this was going to be dangerous, as I found it very addictive. And it was. There was always something going on, exchanges for feature holds, skill stops, the 20p or £2 exchange. Revolution was very good, with fairly easily skill stops, cash pots, that could be gambled, and a repeat feature afterwards...what more could you ask for? Tensation, was the main pull, with the hint of a £10er with the 1 to 10 cash climb, with ideally the pound or two pound repeater, offered in a way, you thought you had a chance, of guessing the correct window, the win was behind.. Yes it had nothing to do with skill or luck, but you was fooled that it just might. Best streak on this was £5, and I was just hitting the first window each time. The 20p gamble exchange for hi-lo, I had never saw done successfully. Anyone else do it? The Jackpot was not that easily, and always nudges that achieved this. Never gambled to the jackpot, although the cash pot did could fill for the jackpot, or be gambled, once again, I have never seen this done. The cash pot, was an awful feature, never more than a £1, and would wipe out that nice nudge pot you was holding out for. But like I said..there was always something going on to aim for, and it went from 10p a go, to throwing in the pounds, and I could and did lose quite a bit, but all n the name of amusement. Cashbolt for some reason, I played, but would move on to another castle machine, I think there wasn't enough features, and the main feature.."Cashbolt" was a tricky one to complete, for relatively low wins. Drum roll.. So this leaves Big 50. This machine with the biggest balls in the arcade. Quite a few in Liverpool started out as £4 jackpot for the bars, but, that was changed quickly to an all cash £2 option. For those who have never seen or played it. The top glass, was lit up with a matrix of 25 £2 notes. So big, it was used to scroll messages in the attract mode. The gameplay was simple. Complete the word "Big Fifty" with overlaid numbers on the reels, and you was offered a yes/no chance to win £2. Get lucky, and it would light one note on the top glass. And it would keep on going until you hit "no" or..the dreaded no credit, where you had to complete repeat feature of yes/no AND THEN continue with yes/no for another note. High rollers where logged on the LED display, with best ever wins, and today's best, similar to Moneybelt / Supatrack from JPM. Personal best was £10, and I witnessed £22. But what happened to these machines? They seemed so popular, different, and must of been good for the operators, but they disappeared, within a few years. Several years later, when ACE, brought out Play It Again, I thought it was a new castle machine, but it was not..well not totally, as I have learnt the tech was warmed over for the SP:Ace platforms?? If this is correct. Anyway, what is other peoples recollections of these machines?? Oldskooler.

really big thanks to tony (amot) for the replacement screen deal em lives on born 1987 still going strong

Here is a short vid of the one I played at Reelfruits Bognor Regis today

Dedicated thread to follow soon!

Nope, I only realised it existed when I saw that pic, must have been one of the very last ones they made. Check this out, I found the old factory building... And how it used to look in 1987...

Well, I didn't think it would ever happen but the notorious and elusive Big Fifty is now part of the collection! There's plenty of work to be done to bring this gem back to some sort of former glory so stay tuned!

Crystal - Lucky Lottery Tech: IMPACT Here's another clubber from Crystal, basically its a clone-ish of JPM's club big break Keyboard shortcuts in the notes section of the emulator. Thanks to Wizard for the emulator The rom and image providers. Please use MFME V19.8 or later to play. Lucky Lottery Club.zip

You should have called him young mate😆😆😆

Nice bump, thanks. That gamble was brutal. Don't believe we have a DX of this yet.

Barcrest, same era as Mirage, MegaBuck$, Nickleodeon. They were extremely rare like a few choice others.

No she's not Peter my old mate.

Is she for sale graham my old mate?

Get that built Dj and I can get rid of all my machines and just have that no more hassle

Basically money bank was superbank but you had a one or two player option on it.

Cheers mate but I would think that the best person to clarify this and excuse the pun would be @superbank, correct me if I am wrong.

Swap the plug over here: Pretty sure that will do it.

Always happens lol

Thanks mate much appreciated.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/arcade-machine-Heads-And-Tails-Penny-Machine-Made-In-the-1970-s/223934424003?hash=item34238823c3:g:prMAAOSwGfVeXXCv

happy days .... oh and 10p is fair , not because they have a face value but because somefolks have to have jpm 10p tokens, if i had a machine it would accept anything i am sure . soi wouldnt care .

Would love to see this emulated.

Repair thread started...

Cheers, Graham! I did a classic layout back in 2016...

It's a very long time since I saw one of these - In my local kebab shop about 30(?) years ago. I remember it taking ages to fill up Big Fifty and then I hit it on no and won nothing. I was fucking fuming!!! How can you fill up the feature and not win anything????? I tried a good few more times over the coming months and the best I ever got was £8 which was pretty good but I was substantially down on this over the time it was there. Very glad that you got this and would love to see it emulated. I'd happily thrash a few grand through this and see what I could get it running at percentage-wise. Well done Tris!

As the Churchill dog would say, ooooohhhhh yes!

Ahhhhh thank you kind sir. With a little wiping of the rose tinted glasses, just imagine your local arcade, now and how it was 30 years ago (hovis theme in'th background), the talent, and research, that went into every machine, was a lot more diverse, and vibrant. Purely a question of competition, and the never ending goal, of manu's beating each other. Deal or no f**king deal, is all I've seen, in the big boys section, and a glimpse of decent machines, remaining in the £5 section. It's not a question of what people like to play, as Bar X, keeps them coming regardless. As we can all agree, members over 35, can attest, we was spoilt. And now we have a little slice of heaven in our homes, thankfully Eeeee...it wor' grand Oldskooler

Also, check out these issues of BWB/Castle "Scoop"... http://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/index.php?/files/file/647-scoop-issue-1-bwbcastle/ http://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/index.php?/files/file/654-scoop-issue-2-bwbcastle/ http://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/index.php?/files/file/158-scoop-issue-3-bwbcastle/

Here you go, this is the only image I have of Reel 'em In...