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Ace - Pay RiseTech: SP.aceHave fun and 'Watch for my hidden treasures' or try for a line win on the band-aid. Relive the early 90's fun with this game.Two versions are available - £3 Cash and £6 Token jackpots both are 20p play. These layouts use the early V0.1 Roms. Can you remember the emptiers?Keyboard shortcuts in the notes. Thanks to:Wizard (RIP) for MFMEThe Rom & Image providerThe orginal classic creators. MFME V20.1 only Ace - Pay Rise 6T.zip Ace - Pay Rise £3C.zip

I think I mentioned at one point that we (JPM) were very close to Starpoint both socially and professionally. The development of the modular SRU reel unit was a huge step for both of us and the months of development and prototyping were accompanied by lunch time restaurant meetings and quite often, evening boozy get togethers as well as Golf weekends, although not the golf for me, I would rather eat my spleen. During the lunchtime meeting we would often sit around a the table in a local French restaurant where they would put together a very long table for us all to sit together. After most of these boozy lunchtime meetings we would sit there exchanging views and finally end playing a game between us all, this game was called Spoof. For those of you that don't know the game it's very straight forward, everyone starts with three items in hand. These items such as pound coins are held by everyone that wishes to join in, consequently there was always a dash for pound coins. Being in the gaming industry obviously demanded that we'd play for money so each round was a pound in the kitty each. Considering there was at least ten of us that was £10 in the Kitty for each round. Play starts at the head of the table with the initial player presenting his hand with either all three coins hidden in his fist, or alternatively two, or one coin or perhaps none! The idea is to guess how many items, jointly, are revealed when all players have taken their turn at guessing. With ten people playing the guess would be from 0 to 30 obviously although zero would be an extraordinary call, as would 30 although you never know! There would a record keeper and the banter would go along the lines of “ooh good guess” or “really?” and “you must be joking” and they added to the fun. Quite often the total number wasn't successfully guessed, and the Kitty carried on. Anyway, I digress as usual. On one such occasion, before the game started Ken Smith the owner of Starpoint made a speech about how much they enjoyed the game with us and went on to present us all with our own set of solid silver, engraved, spoof sticks in a leather holder in order that we would never again have to scrabble for coins I still have mine as you can see and they are a treasured possession, I have taken this picture on a debit card for a size reference. If you look carefully you can see STARPOINT on one and a set of hall marks on the other! To carry on with this departure, it was deemed that we should always carry this token of friendship and indeed if you met one of the troop and could not display your wallet, you would forfeit a Pound! Years later one of the guys at JPM, one Colin Crossman, he who oversaw the Cabinet and fit out design area, was rushed to hospital with a kidney disorder which demanded immediate attention. Ron Watts made a point of contacting his wife to arrange a visit to his bedside to wish him well. As he approached the bed, Ron being the eternal joker, pulled out his spoof stick wallet to take advantage of the situation. Colin smiled and pulled back the bed sheet only to display his own set laying on his chest next to the heart monitor! Happy days!

Logistics and space are causing me issues (which basically means I have too many machines and not enough room 😂) - I’m working on a solution and can then hopefully enjoy all my growing collection and hopefully get the vids going too 👍

I read about this recently when I had my first MPU3 with the Carfield ‘under licence’ printed on the glass, this may help “The story of the Nudge” which names “club nudger” specifically; https://www.dransfields.com/about/the-dransfields-story/ Be interesting to see further input on this topic 👍

Hi I know I'm asking for the impossible but does someone out there just happen to have a top glass £2 or £3 jackpot for a barcrest mpu3 adders and ladders they would like to sell I've got a reel glass just need a top glass so I can rebuild an mpu3 machine back to an original adders I will pay Good money for a decent glass if anyone can help thankyou

Has any of you fine gentlemen got one of the above or and bits from these SWP machines please? Working or not, please drop me a PM. Obviously I don’t expect for free. Cheers John

great little story frank and thanks for sharing. they really were the best of days by the sounds of it .

thank you

Hope that sorted it? Cheers.

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Thanks Del, i'll drop him a text

I am sure tony amot has some cobra stuff

It's a Rock On Jackpot😂