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- Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:32 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
- Replies: 262
- Views: 126716
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:40 am
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
- Replies: 262
- Views: 126716
Just a quick update on progress with repairs - thanks to Dave Hill's excellent photographs, I have gathered some more clues concerning the operation of the unit (even though his was a later model with more relays inside!). It seems that the play switch had been replaced in my machine, and was of the...
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:38 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
- Replies: 262
- Views: 126716
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:14 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
- Replies: 262
- Views: 126716
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:32 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
- Replies: 262
- Views: 126716
Thanks a lot for the info - I am an electronics technician, but I am baffled over this one, because it has been re-wired a fair amount. The push button start/stop has been replaced with a stop only button, so there are lots of wires now redundant. I would like to restore it to its original state if ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:02 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Anyone remember these large multi-players?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7490
Re: Anyone remember these large multi-players?
One from this era which sticks in my mind worked like a vacuum cleaner in reverse blowing plastic practice golf balls out of the middle a la bingo machine. There were stations all 'round the machine, and you inserted a penny to light a lamp for a few seconds. Then you prayed some balls would cascad...
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:13 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Anyone remember these large multi-players?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7490
Re: Anyone remember these large multi-players?
My guess is a version of Cromptons Lucky Stars which was derived from their Derby Races . See Inventing the Penny Pusher for Jim Crompton's description and a small picture. This would have had film star symbols, but maybe fruits appeared on a later version. I certainly remember Film Star (there was...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:46 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Anyone remember these large multi-players?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7490
Anyone remember these large multi-players?
One of the most vivid memories I have of the arcades in the 1960s is playing on a 1d multi-player machine which seemed to dominate the entire arcade - it consisted of a large, hexagonal(?) top display, featuring fruit machine symbols arranged in a circle. When the Play Now light came on, you placed ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:30 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Nixie tubes in slot machines
- Replies: 70
- Views: 44726
Re: Projector slot displays
From what I remember, the projector displays were hard to see in certain levels of ambient light, that's why they were usually located beneath a small viewing hood. I only ever saw one machine which used them, it was a floor-standing fruit machine, with a push-left-or-push-right handle to start the ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:37 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Nixie tubes in slot machines
- Replies: 70
- Views: 44726
Nixie tubes in slot machines
I thought it was a great machine but nobody else thought so! I think it had a spare nixie tube with it I can remember this machine, or one very much like it, in an amusement arcade in Hemsby, Norfolk, in the 1960's. At the time I thought that the NIXIE tubes were very unusual, as most fruit machine...
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:11 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
- Replies: 262
- Views: 126716
Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart, Bingola, etc.
(Several Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart. Bingola, etc. topics merged - Site Admin) Hi, I have just taken delivery of an old electro-mechanical wall machine called Electrodart (once common in the arcades in the 'fifties and 'sixties). Although cosmetically very good (has an excellent b...