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1982 advert.😁

One of the biggest problems us old crusty folk have is the memory. I can recall machines from decades ago. The artwork, the manufacturer, the arcade I first saw it, wins, losses etc. The ACTUAL name of the machine...errrrrmmm..it was a MPU3 snake based machine with lots of squares..that kind of detail isn't what you need. Better than nothing I suppose. Statto

1966

The original and best version...the mpu3.

Harrier electro from Bell Fruit. Originally released as Jump Jet on 50p tokens, this is the £1 upgrade but still same game. Holds but Not so much a nudge as a jump feature. Nudges move one symbol at a time. When the jump panel lights the player has a short time to match the symbol on the centre reel win line by pressing the First and third reel hold buttons this will lift the corresponding reel solenoid allowing the reel to spin, release button to stop reel so as instruction on panel advises short spins give better control. If winning symbols matched then that win pays out. This is another sort after electro as low in numbers compared to other BF electro's.......

Just got to get the machine internally to 100% next. There was also vibrating distortion coming from the speaker... but I'm 20p richer than I was before 😂

he isnt known as ronocle the Oracle for nothing happy days

A few pictures collected but lucky to have a time machine in the form of an extensive number of Coin Slots. A couple from 60s and 70s but main collection from mid 1979 through to 1994 with a few mixed later copies. I have scanned a number few pages as required but would take some time to sort out all the relevant machine pages, The collection of papers show many new machine and used sales adverts from both major manufactures and smaller companies over those years.

Fucking heck @BF74 where on earth do you get these pictures, you've either got a time machine, are shite hot on google or your hard drives are full of this stuff that you have collected over the years. Some seriously iconic beauties there😍

1974.

haha, you not getting off that easy! not old enough to remember but like you, interested in the details (would be happy to curate a page for Carfield/DN, Summit and aforementioned R.V.S. if it took off, maybe even Barcrest MPU1&2, if no one else up for it - maybe focus initially on periods of production for the bigger companies whose output spanned several decades, then compile master lists later?) lot of the 70's rebuilds, is difficult to know who was behind them without names on glass but sometimes you can make an educated guess, like when a MAM Inn Play Lucky Stepper turned up recently, looks to be a sister machine to Pound Maker/Pound Stretcher - guess there might be a whole separate list for "currently unknown operators Bell-Fruit electro rebuilds" and the like reckon there's members or folk around who have good knowledge/collections of some of the more obscure/less talked about games - this pic looked to have been taken in a row of similar machines know people have pulled images from ebay etc. for years, if they see something of personal interest - is a shame the gallery hasn't expanded as much as it could have done maybe someone is already working on it, offline, who knows just imagine the little nuggets of info and anecdotes that might pop up from time to time if we all got behind it

Your hired! When can you start Paul?

would be interesting to see (at a glance) what new games were competing with each other in any given season, any year, from say 1975-95 (and older) probably no more than about a dozen games in any year, from any one manufacturer (club machines and AWPs), for domestic market but be interesting to get input from members in mainland europe and beyond, on export games by british manufacturers (although some would be dual release, under different names on different stake etc.) a comprehensive trade paper collection would be invaluable for dates (years of release) where jackpot values fall into the generally 3yr bands (JPM, Maygay and Summit Coin were pretty good for dating final inspection labels/plates, some of the others carried less info) fairly big undertaking for any one person (to include all rebuilds) but yeah, could be done collectively, as a community effort (would be nice to be able to customise how the info is presented, so you could search by year/manufacturer/jackpot/game type etc. and kinda wants to be clickable (linked), for purpose of adding in info like photos of machines/glass/flyers/adverts etc., which is prob not gonna work within confines of current forum thread pages) maybe to start, a separate forum area and page (thread) for each manufacturer? (with person starting thread for that manufacturer undertaking to edit first post list as new info comes in subsequent posts, then discussion can run pages but list grows on first post of first page of that thread) people could start dedicated year thread pages too, if for example they had a particular interest in a certain year and pull info from manufacturer lists into a year list ... just a thought (pretty sure with the amount of games Nifty played in the 80's, if we could plug him in and download his memory banks we could have that decade pretty much sewn up in less than a week!)