Classic Arcade Machines...

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 3:54 pm

Anyone remember that horse racing game / machine from way back when, i think it might have been called 'Grand National'.
You had to bet on a nag, (When it said in a quite disturbing / Stephen Hawking like way "Place Your Bets Now Please") white won you ten pence, i think blue got you twenty, and the top prize was the princely sum of about eighty pence if the pink horse won (which it never did!!)

I MUST find this arcade machine to prove to Mrs Bandage that it wasnt a fragment of my, admittedly, quite bizarre imagination!

We must have trawled every gaming arcade in Berwick (which is itself a quite extraordinary place, a bit like Balamory off of the telly) over the weekend, and couldnt find it anywhere.

Your help in this important matter is greatly appreciated!! :laugh:

lenny_henry · **Joined:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:10 am **Posts:** 40

isn't there one in seaton carew?

Lord Smythe · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 4:21 pm

Ahhhh yes.. Lester Piggott, Greville Starkey, Gordon Richards... proper jockeys with proper jockey's names!

katcha · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:08 pm

katcha · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:13 pm

not the right game but cant find owt else

katcha · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:16 pm

this was the game for me mind

katcha · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:19 pm

followed by this -radarscope

katcha · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:20 pm

then this bad boy

Spender · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:41 pm

There was a pinball machine in the arcade next to the Marine called The Doozie. You couldn't prise me off it for about two years. I bet I've still got the highest score on it. :sweeeet:

There is still nothing more evocative than the 'clack' noise when you win a replay. :grin:

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:42 pm

Used to love playing this!

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:47 pm

This........

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 5:48 pm

And sometimes this! clappp

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

Mick Tait's Head Bandage wrote:

And sometimes this! clappp

Kung-Fu-Master!!!!!!!!!

My favourite arcade game ever! I was addicted to that.Also that Track and Field game where you had to press the buttons dead fast to run :grin:

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 6:57 pm

I'm pretty sure Las Vegas amusements still has the Grand National machine in. It's like a time capsule that place, still got loads of 'Tuppeny Nudgers' (steady now Cornelius!) and Bar X gamblies from the eighties.

Spender · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2007 3:02 am

I like them Tuppeny Nudgers, Bridlingtons crammed with them, well it's crammed with everything for pensioners and the old dears can have a go in between Bingo games. Just make sure that when you have a go you aren't standing in a puddle of piss. :shock:

Miss Tigga · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2007 10:36 am

Mick Tait's Head Bandage wrote:

Anyone remember that horse racing game / machine from way back when, i think it might have been called 'Grand National'.
You had to bet on a nag, (When it said in a quite disturbing / Stephen Hawking like way "Place Your Bets Now Please") white won you ten pence, i think blue got you twenty, and the top prize was the princely sum of about eighty pence if the pink horse won (which it never did!!)

I MUST find this arcade machine to prove to Mrs Bandage that it wasnt a fragment of my, admittedly, quite bizarre imagination!

We must have trawled every gaming arcade in Berwick (which is itself a quite extraordinary place, a bit like Balamory off of the telly) over the weekend, and couldnt find it anywhere.

Your help in this important matter is greatly appreciated!! :laugh:

Yeah, I think there's one at the arcades in Seaton. Haven't been down with the kids for a while but I'm pretty sure there is one.

jish · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2007 7:20 pm

Hyper Sports pisses on all of those!

Classic Arcade Machines...

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