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I remember one particular school summer holidays when I was 14 or 15. If I was bored at home after lunch I used to walk 30 minutes along the seafront into town and play stuff like Crack the Nut and Copper Run in the arcades. There was one arcade that had two Spoofs, a Black Hole, a JPM Take 2 and a few other 2p games at the back and they were great games to play to pass the time. PCP Fruit Connexxion was another one I liked, with the 'Wild Reel' skill feature that could go for 50p. To make my money last a bit longer before the long walk home again I'd walk onto the pier and play video games like Bubble Bobble, Nemesis, Pac Land or Track n Field, which were exceptional value for money at 10p a credit. I'd also walk around looking for decent holds on the 20p machines - two pint glasses on BFM Around the Town, two clown faces on JPM Circus, and so on. If I managed to get a feature it was genuinely exciting because I never played these sorts of games normally, and even just collecting a couple of quid meant I could stay out a bit longer and buy some crisps and an ice-pop on the way home. Out of all the games I played as a kid, Crack the Nut was probably my favourite - they just got the gameplay spot-on. The gamble seemed really fair and so did the '!' random stop on the name, and the way you could 'jump' the gamble, the timings and sounds...everything was just perfect. Had that proper Barcrest 80's feel about it as well; 20p was shown as £0.2 on the alpha display, 'Best Saved Today' and so on. I know I should have been doing something better with my time but seaside arcades in the early-to-mid 90's were really intoxicating places to be during the summer. Pure entertainment.

That board looks really nice but it might not be the the original. If there's been a bad one in there before the contacts in the switch plug could be cream crackered. Plugs sometimes act like a shelf a catch all the falling vapour.

Usually they are, but ones in those red packs seemed to fail more! Usually just one in a pack but it does mean 8 diodes to replace because of one gone bad!

Hope you get it fully working, she is a real beauty😍

Thats probably the cleanest mod2 I have ever seen.

Just PM me your address and i'll send it on.

Deal or no deal.

i will check if i still have the saved file and will send it you if i have. i then printed it on to photo paper then masked the back with black tape

I may have a whole back with regulator. I’ll check my stock.

Nice machine,the feature is lights like gone fishing,I prefere a physical game like waterwheel.ive had gone fishing ,great machines and these electros will way out last any mpu based machine.

Tokens update: PE (Phonographic Equipment) tokens are a straight swap for the scarce ACE ones. £6 a hundred from Swallow. Anyone seen the Darts version of this, called 'Double Top'? It's now on my list!

You been on the magic mushrooms again Chris.

Cheers Chris,think it was close to being crushed.