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Post by bertiemollie on Jan 27, 2020 18:55:15 GMT 1
I've got this up for sale on ebay. It is all original with original boards and CRT. Should of thought of putting it on here first really as a lot will have grown up in this era. Forum price outside ebay £1500. Cheers, Andrew link |
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Post by arrow on Jan 27, 2020 19:00:35 GMT 1
Wow, brings back memories. One of the salesmen from Davis bros Yamaha had a massive score on that game. People used to gather round in a big group to watch him play it.
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Post by earthman on Jan 27, 2020 22:28:09 GMT 1
Certainly brings back memories for me, remember seeing them at my school/youth club, couldn't afford to play on them much myself, 10p were bigger back then and seemed to be worth more hey.
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Post by allspeeds on Jan 27, 2020 23:02:09 GMT 1
I put so many 10pence pieces in one it would have been cheaper to buy it.
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Post by markhoopy on Jan 27, 2020 23:24:02 GMT 1
I put so many 10pence pieces in one it would have been cheaper to buy it. There was a cafe near us that had one in the passageway that led out to a car park behind the building. It was out of the way of the main cafe and pretty quiet and we would go there with a ten pee with a length of cotton sellotaped to it and ever-so-gently drop it into the coin slot and try find the switch for adding credits - once you found the switch you could rock the coin backwards and forwards and quickly get to 99 credits then play on it all day, cost free. Within a month it became impossible to do without the coin jamming and cotton snapping off - presumably because the coin mechanism had been changed to stop the trick working. Highest score I ever got was 22,380 but that was on a Mark II Space Invader that had the flashing spaceship that gave 500 points if you hit it. Fairly sure the high-scoring spaceships appeared if you first fired twelve shots then waited at the right side of the screen, then another after a further eight shots and so on. No idea how anyone figured that out but it certainly racked up your score. The Mark I bertiemollie is selling is completely original and in great condition too. Good ones like his can fetch decent money and £1500 is a real bargain. |
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Post by donkeychomp on Jan 28, 2020 0:50:04 GMT 1
So cool. I recall the MK1 was fire 22 shots then hit the ship, I could get a pretty high score on that thing. All done when I should have been in school too... All I can say is it saved me from learning logarithms. Still have no idea what that is or what possible use it would be to me. Or why knowing all of Henry V111's wives is vital...  Alex |
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Post by veg on Jan 28, 2020 1:42:14 GMT 1
Nope no idea wtf you’re all talking about.
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Post by veg on Jan 28, 2020 8:25:53 GMT 1
The only tayto I’ve heard of make crisps
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Post by madmick on Jan 28, 2020 10:58:48 GMT 1
We had a taxi office near us that had the game installed, me and my mate would save our school “ tuck shop “ money to spend on the game after school every night.
We got to know the drivers well, and used to beg them for 10p pieces to play more games.
They got fed up with us begging, called us raggamuffins and kicked us out. 🥴😂
M.M.
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Post by tony2stroke on Jan 28, 2020 12:23:00 GMT 1
We had a taxi office near us that had the game installed, me and my mate would save our school “ tuck shop “ money to spend on the game after school every night. We got to know the drivers well, and used to beg them for 10p pieces to play more games. They got fed up with us begging, called us raggamuffins and kicked us out. 🥴😂 M.M. That & Hoopies post reminds me, I live 10 mins away from a fair ground, in the summer we used to nudge the 10p pushers to get some money out, sometimes the alarm would go off and all the money that fell just got sent back into the machine and alarm would go off, but if you nudged it just right lots of 10p's would come out and we would then use it in the space invader & other video games, if the attendant caught you he would kick you up the butt and ban you for a day or up to a week, we all knew each other, so it was all kind of alright, but they would call the law if it was out of towners trying the same thing, I ended up working in 1 of the arcades as an attendant myself kicking out the younger lads for doing exactly the same thing I used to do  |
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Post by allspeeds on Jan 28, 2020 19:01:15 GMT 1
I put so many 10pence pieces in one it would have been cheaper to buy it. There was a cafe near us that had one in the passageway that led out to a car park behind the building. It was out of the way of the main cafe and pretty quiet and we would go there with a ten pee with a length of cotton sellotaped to it and ever-so-gently drop it into the coin slot and try find the switch for adding credits - once you found the switch you could rock the coin backwards and forwards and quickly get to 99 credits then play on it all day, cost free. Within a month it became impossible to do without the coin jamming and cotton snapping off - presumably because the coin mechanism had been changed to stop the trick working. Highest score I ever got was 22,380 but that was on a Mark II Space Invader that had the flashing spaceship that gave 500 points if you hit it. Fairly sure the high-scoring spaceships appeared if you first fired twelve shots then waited at the right side of the screen, then another after a further eight shots and so on. No idea how anyone figured that out but it certainly racked up your score. The Mark I bertiemollie is selling is completely original and in great condition too. Good ones like his can fetch decent money and £1500 is a real bargain. Its all coming back to me now ,there was another machine that came later It might have been centipede or asteroids I can't remember but if you had a battery type lighter that people used for lighting gas cookers and gas fires and clicked it against the chrome case where the coins go in, you could get it to register credits happy days ,shows how low tech everything was back then. |
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Post by arrow on Jan 28, 2020 19:11:58 GMT 1
There was a cafe near us that had one in the passageway that led out to a car park behind the building. It was out of the way of the main cafe and pretty quiet and we would go there with a ten pee with a length of cotton sellotaped to it and ever-so-gently drop it into the coin slot and try find the switch for adding credits - once you found the switch you could rock the coin backwards and forwards and quickly get to 99 credits then play on it all day, cost free. Within a month it became impossible to do without the coin jamming and cotton snapping off - presumably because the coin mechanism had been changed to stop the trick working. Highest score I ever got was 22,380 but that was on a Mark II Space Invader that had the flashing spaceship that gave 500 points if you hit it. Fairly sure the high-scoring spaceships appeared if you first fired twelve shots then waited at the right side of the screen, then another after a further eight shots and so on. No idea how anyone figured that out but it certainly racked up your score. The Mark I bertiemollie is selling is completely original and in great condition too. Good ones like his can fetch decent money and £1500 is a real bargain. Its all coming back to me now ,there was another machine that came later It might have been centipede or asteroids I can't remember but if you had a battery type lighter that people used for lighting gas cookers and gas fires and clicked it against the chrome case where the coins go in, you could get it to register credits happy days ,shows how low tech everything was back then. How on Earth would someone have thought to do that for the first time? Amazing resourcefulness! |
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Post by donkeychomp on Jan 29, 2020 0:36:27 GMT 1
Asteroids. Woah. I was an air courier after college and one of my regular trips was Milan. The office was next door to 2 places. A restaurant where for a quid you got a massive slice of (still) the best tasting pizza I have ever tasted and a huge glass of beer. And the other place was a deli/cafe with an Asteroids machine. 250 Lira a go (about 5p) and I got so good that eventually I'd run out of time and let the owners little son carry on playing for me. Happy days.
Alex
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