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I worked at Barcrest for many years programming mainly SWP’s, early ones - but the best, Crystal Maze - also AWP and Club machines, which I didn’t enjoy, too much risk paying out such a high jackpot. Lotta Luck was an interesting game, it was pretty much designed on the back of a fag packet and was just left to crack on with it, quite a lot of freedom! After that, I formed Extreme Gaming, then Cool. I agree with the original poster, the work that has been done to emulate all the old platforms, I’m just blown away with it all. I’ve pretty much worked on all of them, MPU4, MPU5, MPU6, S4, S5, S6, Epoch, Eclipse and Barcrest MPU4 video. I enjoyed the early days of Barcrest, at great small team with so much room for creativity. The best bit was spending two days colouring in a card board template that overlayed a jig we used to develop games, so we could see which bulbs were part of what section. Stay well, stay safe.

Just found this site and thought I'd stop in to say hello as what you lot are doing with our old machines is amazing! I worked at JPM from the late 80's to 2000 then founded Red Gaming in 2000. Pretty much responsible for the design of most of our AWP, Club, SWP and Export machines. Just found out that one of your members is trying to build a Red Dwarf from scratch and was very impressed! it was hard enough creating the original let alone trying to do it from a terrible picture and some ROMS! I'm now in Australia so can only admire what you are all doing from afar. It's also such a shame that neither JPM nor Red survived the turmoil in the gaming industry. The world is a poorer place for it.

Yep.