Dennis Jezzard Sprint Track
Dennis Jezzard Sprint Track
Anybody heard of a machine named "Sprint Track", made by Dennis Jezzard?
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Re: Dennis Jezzard: Sprint Track ANYBODY HEARD OF IT ?
I meant to answer this in 2012! Better late than never.
I've just disinterred my machine from deep storage (indoors - not underground). It's a large countertop game for one or two players who race against each other and the machine by firing balls into the horseshoes. Each hit causes the horse to pulse forwards. Good fun! If either player beats the machine (white horse), a free go is awarded. The pace of the white horse can be adjusted by the operator.
I've just disinterred my machine from deep storage (indoors - not underground). It's a large countertop game for one or two players who race against each other and the machine by firing balls into the horseshoes. Each hit causes the horse to pulse forwards. Good fun! If either player beats the machine (white horse), a free go is awarded. The pace of the white horse can be adjusted by the operator.
Re: Dennis Jezzard: Sprint Track ANYBODY HEARD OF IT ?
Beautiful machine , love it
I'm sure I remember playing something similar in my youth.
I'm sure I remember playing something similar in my youth.
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Its a bit like my Derby Day except mine is an upright floor standing machine which dispensed a big pack of Players cigs if you won. I got it from Friargate Waxworks in York when it closed down 20 plus years ago
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I'd be interested to see a picture of your Derby Day.
Like many slot machines, the format is borrowed from an old funfair favourite which usually took the form of a roll down game like this huge one I spotted in the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen.
Here's another incarnation - United's Derby Roll of 1955:
Like many slot machines, the format is borrowed from an old funfair favourite which usually took the form of a roll down game like this huge one I spotted in the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen.
Here's another incarnation - United's Derby Roll of 1955:
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My Derby Day is also in storage but I will dig it out and take some pics. It has 3 horses galloping around an oval track at the top and the player has to fire a ball 'allwin' style up onto the playfield which drops down over pins and through gates marked 1, 2 or 3 and is returned to be fired again as long as the horses are galloping. The player chooses which horse is thought to win beforehand and if the ball passes through that chosen horses numbered gate during play it moves that particular horse faster. If the players horse wins it drops a pack of cigs. There is a central horseshoe that rotates on the playfield that can also catch the ball. The machine is around 6 feet tall and has a cassette tape sound track of a racecourse. There was a second version called Gold Cup
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Its amazing how many of the same great things we all have stashed away! Mine is exactly the same
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And here's Bally's Skill-Derby of 1960:
and Bally's Derby (a rifle shooting take on the game)
and Bally's Derby (a rifle shooting take on the game)
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Along the same lines, recently spotted on eBay, from Chicago Coin: Turf Club.
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These big electro-mechanical arcade pieces were my first interest. I became distracted by modern mechanical bandits, and more recently by pre-war Mills types.
I suppose the really large 'centre-piece' types are extinct; not many arcades will have held on to huge plywood structures full of relays and contacts, controlling broken Airfix racing cars or plastic horses with missing legs.
Decimalisation will have seen the last few off.
I had a horse-racing favourite, on 3d. bit. It was at least twelve-sided, maybe 20, and each position had the name of a Grand National winner. I can still remember the names.
The horses revolved on a green baize platform. If it stopped with a grey horse in front of you , you won sixpence, ninepence or a shilling.
There was a round chrome button you could bang down excitedly during the race, as if to encourage 'your' horse. It had the same effect as shouting at the races: none whatever.
I cannot even remember the machine's name, or who built it.
The last one I saw had a wooden board on the top, supporting a number of Arcadians!
I suppose the really large 'centre-piece' types are extinct; not many arcades will have held on to huge plywood structures full of relays and contacts, controlling broken Airfix racing cars or plastic horses with missing legs.
Decimalisation will have seen the last few off.
I had a horse-racing favourite, on 3d. bit. It was at least twelve-sided, maybe 20, and each position had the name of a Grand National winner. I can still remember the names.
The horses revolved on a green baize platform. If it stopped with a grey horse in front of you , you won sixpence, ninepence or a shilling.
There was a round chrome button you could bang down excitedly during the race, as if to encourage 'your' horse. It had the same effect as shouting at the races: none whatever.
I cannot even remember the machine's name, or who built it.
The last one I saw had a wooden board on the top, supporting a number of Arcadians!
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I have a few of the horses that look like the ones in that Bally Skill Derby. Always wondered what they came from.
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This is the machine Brigham is talking about: Cromptons 3d Derby racer, one of my favourites as well.
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Thanks, Rippy, that's the machine.
20 players! I knew it was big.
I've been searching for info on it for YONKS. There's a glimpse of the toplight on one of Jim Crompton's home movies, care of YouTube, and that's as far as I've got, until now.
When was the last reported sighting, I wonder?
20 players! I knew it was big.
I've been searching for info on it for YONKS. There's a glimpse of the toplight on one of Jim Crompton's home movies, care of YouTube, and that's as far as I've got, until now.
When was the last reported sighting, I wonder?
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Was this the machine that had a turntable of horses and riders which span round while you placed your bets. Then at the end it sunk down about an inch and a small red light next to the winner illuminated?
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Jim Crompton described in some detail the development of the Derby on page 3 of the Arena article, Inventing the Coin Pusher and also provided a small image of the console.
Jim Crompton wrote:It operated on 3d play, had a quick game-cycle of twelve seconds and players could win 6d, 9d, or 1/-. The cabinet was beautifully finished in two-tone grey, with bright artwork on the playing stations. It was six feet in diameter and weighed in at 896lbs. With full cash boxes it was probably nearer half a ton.
See also: Anyone remember these large multi-players?Jim Crompton wrote:Sadly we were devastated by the Finance Act of 1969, which taxed the use of certain types of amusement games known as an AWP, or Amusement With Prizes machines. For example, a 20-player Derby Racer, which cost £1,765, had tax levies set at £3,000 per annum on a penny play. That amounted to tax of almost twice the purchase price of the game and what's more, it was payable on the day of operation, twelve months in advance!
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