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Joined: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:30 am
Posts: 460
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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A machine very
dear to my heart, as it was on a Gold Cup that I won my first jackpot. I
have looked many years for one, but didn't know there were any left alive.
Most of them took a gasoline shower when consecutive holds and various
other of its features were outlawed in the late 1960s.
I see this one has "random holds", which means it's been
reworked. The glass is not original - this was a pre-decimalization 6d
machine that paid jackpots of 300 and 500 coins, not 750p and 1250p.
Actually it only paid out 100 coins, the balance being paid out in gold
award tokens worth 100 credits each. The woman holding the Gold Cup on the
original glass bore such a curiously strong resemblance to Princess Anne
that it caused adverse comment in the papers.
I have actually seen a schematic diagram for this machine, though I don't
possess one and the man who did has probably passed away now. I have
schematics of Keeney machines, but they didn't have a reflex unit or the
Golden Odds - the Gold Cup was quite a bit more complex and borrowed a lot
of ideas from Bally Bingo pinball games.
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