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Just a short video showing typical fruit machines (slot machines) in a British pub going through their advertising sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A87IKqrf1U

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I think these were Bell Fruit. Strange, since I own an old Bell Fruit electromechanical machine. I also bought two Barcrest MPU3 machines a long time ago. Super Line Up and Super Adders and Ladders.

Big Clive

These so-called 'analogue' fruit machines (e.g. lamps and reels) are only now made by one manufacturer in the UK, Bell Fruit (BFM), who operate in a shadow of their former factory having most of it done by external sub-contractors. Nearly every machine now is a tired celeb themed crap-box e.g. Deal or No Deal / Queen / Elvis. RIP every other major fruit machine company including the mighty Barcrest and their sensible but dependable (BWB) and slightly maverick (Vivid) offspring, and the flakey but often entertaining Maygay :( And loads more smaller companies that gave it up years ago. As for how they work - most manufacturers developed their own 'MPU's' in house or with external consultants that was unique to them, e.g. Barcrest were up to MPU 6 when they called it a day, Maygay of old had 'Epoch' but also dabbled in 3rd party solutions e.g. 'OneStop'. Some manufacturers like ACE bought COTS (but still gaming dedicated) systems totally off the shelf like Pluto by Heber.

Lord Brannigan-7

I wonder how they are programmed...microcontrollers? Such a nice display in β€˜demo’ or β€˜tempting’ mode :)

Mike Weijmans

To me, the light show they give is pretty clever. I wonder Clive, do you look and think 'that looks nice'. Or does your brain go into engineer mode and figure out how they do it?

Neil Tonks

Can you steal one of them and take it home? Because a series of videos of you taking a fruit machine to bits would be fantastically entertaining :)

I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day now. 😁


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