Alongside the usual touring equipment, the late rock star Lemmy took something unusual on the road, a Slot Machine…from Germany. A video with a bit of a mystery, a bit of history and a bit of a demo. EXPAND THIS TEXT BOX TO READ PLENTY MORE – INCLUDING A ***FAULT UPDATE***
00:00 Intro
02:33 German Machines
03:20 International slot variances
06:25 The Allwins
09:30 Playing hard to get
11:04 The Lemmy connection
12:30 Why pick these?
13:09 Hernia time
14:02 A closer look
17:03 A look inside
18:39 Where there’s smoke
21:11 Is that it?
22:20 Virtually finished
28:00 The end
+++++++++++++++UPDATE +++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++ The fault with my machine +++++++++++++++
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Since shooting the video I have replaced the components that blew. However this did not resolve the fault. Also refilling the coin tubes doesn’t resolve the issue (a few suggested the machine might be indicating to an attendant that it had run out of money ).
However if you look through the early comments you’ll see one from zapro-dk who mentions that his father had a machine from the same company and they discovered that if the battery dies it forgets its databank which effectively means it can’t work again, but there’s also a comment from TheNWDigital who has found a suggestion on a German forum as to how to reset this fault by bridging some pins on a connector.
I went ahead and tried this and whilst it did reset the machine and *stop the light from flashing* (which was great) – the components I’d only just replaced immediately went up in smoke again – so there’s still another different issue elsewhere. Fortunately I’ve done all I needed to do with this one now, the machine was bought to use as a prop in a video. My original intention was to give it away after the video was finished. That’s not changed and I’ve been contacted by someone who still wants the machine even in its broken state. So trying to get it working again will become their project while I move onto other things. Thanks to everyone for the help and advice.
LINKS
Geldspielautomaten computer game – available here: https://www.gzwo.de
New Allwin type gaming machines available from https://www.retro-arcade.co.uk
CREDIT
Lemmy Thumb courtesy of Wikipedia / Mark Marek Photography
EXTRA INFO:
Correction regarding old decommissioned gambling machines on ebay
Since my 2018 purchase of the gambling machine from Germany – the UK laws changed yet again and now ebay UK is once again full of second hand gaming machines of all varieties (still none of these German ones though). Seems the old AWP/SWP rules have gone out of the window.
GAMEPLAY of Geldspielautomaten:
There is an opportunity to press a button just after a win has appeared, but before the amount is confirmed. Just watch the stop light illuminate for a second before the win is set – that’s the moment, perhaps two or three seconds long where I could have chanced the win to potentially increase it.
Then after that win amount has been settled on – there’s a further opportunity to gamble this amount up or down – and again you’ve got to be quick on the draw to catch this or it’ll do it for you.
So the game goes like this – first you need three things to match to achieve a win, then you can randomise the amount of that win, and then you can go on to further gamble that amount.
Or you can just sit back and watch the show.
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