Topic merged - Site Admin. I'm offered a Mastermatic 'Master Football Game' for £250. I don't know much about these. I have two recollections about it from the time; namely not playing it, and thinking that the coin mech. appears to be from a bubblegum vendor. Has anyone played one? What's the game...

Your hands DID get dirty when you were playing the machines; it was all part of the experience.
Have a look at your hands after a good session in today's arcades, it's no different.

The thickness of the slide tells the value.
If it's two coins thick, it pays 2, etc..

It actually takes threepenny bits, rather than three individual pennies.
These are the machines I look out for, never having had the funds to play them until the late '60s, when Crompton's Threepenny Derby came out.
I'm still narrowly avoiding these Wulff types; I know that once I buy the first one...

What a horrible, cold, inhuman website.
Is it written by emotionless observers from a distant planet?
Dreadful.

A Boland's Black Beauty! Nice find.

Presumably 'Glenvil' is the supplier of the conversion?

I'll be giving it a good examination over the next week or so.
It would be good to have it working correctly, although I'm not banking on it!

I haven't even had the mech out of the case yet. I should imagine the vertical fingers do something electrical. The hopper has an electric eye counting the coins going out. Talk about making things difficult. The all-mechanical Aristo mech looks like it might fit the console cabinet, if I start gett...

...or a spare set of Grosvenor pay-out slides.