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Author Topic: Which company made the touchscreen cashless card systems tabaret venues 1990s  (Read 2438 times)

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Hi


Ive been trying to find out which company made the Touchscreen cashless card based systems that Tabaret (Tabcorp) venues used to have back in the mid to late 1990s , 1995-1999 in Australia, Victoria


I remember they used to have about 4 to 5 games,  one was called carribean . you needed to get 3 bottles up to get a feature, another game was a ned kelly type game with stage coaches, another game was a Circus on with elephants on balls and canons . 


The machines required the user to get a credit card type card that was topped up at the cashier .


If anyone can help me out I would be very grateful


Thanks :)


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These are a bit before my time unfortunately, I was only a teenager back then, playing Tekken 2 and Mario Kart 64 to death, my only experience with pokies in the 1990s was in the lobby of bingo centres before the government made it more strict in ~1997 and banned under-18s from the entire building rather than just the bingo room (suffice to say, I had a lot of free textas to use at school). I don't know many other Victorians who visit this site unfortunately, my only pokie memories were from the early 2000s with the old games e.g. Aristocrat MK2.5/MK4/MK5, VLC Winning Touch (Tabaret T's, Royal T's, 7's Wild, and the Tatts version with Georges Wild, Bonus Fives etc.), Atronic, IGT Game King/Spectrum/GU4, Konami Tasman etc.

The machines you're talking about sound a bit like the 20c virtual break-opens we still have these days (e.g. the one right next to the front door at the Royal Oak outside the main gambling area) - not quite pokies but still took your money just as fast (same with those old random number games in bingo centres - the Aristocrat MK2.5 Lucky Numbers were the most common machines I saw at bingo (and occasionally they were normal pokies like Top Gear but were 20c with 5 lines and no multiplier e.g. $1 max) but in the 90s Box Hill Bingo had different machines which were much older and only had a VFD display, flashing lights and a beeper, and were $1 per credit instead of 50c - never saw them anywhere else) - Box Hill also had a single updated version of the VFD games which looked PC-based (circa 1994) with a normal monitor, I remember it had a particular lose screen with the word BUMMER on it, showing a cartoon pants-down "bum" picture to go with it.

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Hi

Thanks for the reply and sorry for getting back to you so late.
the VLC touch screens are the ones I was thinking of, Tabaret Ts and also the Georges , takes me back .

Cheers :)

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Hopefully you haven't disappeared after your second post, I never saw your reply until now!

Does Treasure Quest ring a bell? It had a similar theme to Polly's Gold but IIRC it was sort of like Tabaret T's/Bonus Fives/Red Hot 7's in that you had to fill the 5 treasure chest icons to get the feature. I don't think it had wilds in the feature, just the boring old 5 spins that paid next to nothing, if anything at all. Of course, the entire point of those games was to get the 1000 credits (or the bells for 500), which was a lot easier despite Georges Wild/Royal T's etc. having wilds and even more wilds in the feature.

Georges Wild (Tatts) / Royal T's (Tabaret) / 7's Royal (Crown) - wild 7's in feature (on top of the true wilds e.g. Tabaret/Tatts Pokies logos), people use to go venue hopping to find one that had 4 Georges/7's already filled up, since filling the 5th triggered the feature

Rich Pickings is another game a mate mentioned, it was apparently a 3 reel/5 line version of the Georges/Bonus Fives (or just with that theme), never saw it in real life though as I was too young at the time.

Bonus Fives / Tabaret T's / Red Hot 7's - no wilds in the game (not even in the feature) but easier to get the 5 7's/T's/Georges (also a minor difference with Bonus Fives, IIRC 5 cherries only paid 25 instead of 50)

Royal Hot 7's (same as Royal T's but 5 lines and usually 20c or $1)

Diamond Mine / Diamond Delight (similar to Tabaret T's again)

7's Wild - all 5 7's anywhere on the screen triggers the feature (7's are wild in the free games only), 5 7's inside the free games doesn't retrigger though

Polly's Gold - I think you had to get 5 birds (scatters) to get the parrot race feature (complete with an 8-bit rendition of the 1812 Overture), never played it myself but the feature was similar to Aristocrat's Top Gear/Winning Post/Chariot Challenge

White Pointers (or White Pointer) (apparently the US version is called Great Whites), I can't remember the feature trigger (5 shells or something like that? I think the sharks were wild), it must have also been one of the only pokie games (as in, not video poker) in existence to pay straights e.g. A-K-Q-J-10 (in any order) on a payline

Bee-Zerk (never played this one so I can't remember it)

Straight 8 (Tatts) / Super Eight (Tabaret/Crown) - a 3x3 reel 8-liner - 4 bells in a diamond shape (e.g. 2,4,6,8 on a PC number pad) triggered fever, all fruits won the prize pool (unless I'm thinking of a different game). Americans would probably call it a Cherry Master clone as those games are very similar (not VLC though)

And of course, no VLC would be complete without Power Keno, and hearing that infernal racket non-stop, bibibibibibibibibibibibibibibibibibibibi, BUH (the last sound being when you lost, or BUUUH-buuuh on the Tatts ones). I think there was also video poker and blackjack on them too but my memory is a bit hazy after ~20 years. I do remember the Shave and a Haircut tune if you ran out of credits on the Georges though!

Sadly, I don't think any of these have been preserved (even American ones). Apparently the VLCs had a suicide chip e.g. program code stored in RAM, which if it detected something trying to read it the chip would delete itself and brick the machine, turning them into boat anchors. Of course, they probably also bricked themselves when the battery went flat.

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The other games in the first post sound like two early Aristocrat MK6 titles, namely Bushranger and Roll Up Roll Up.

Bushranger was sort of like Mystic Mermaid with the "stretchy" wilds covering the entire reel, Ned Kelly's armor would stretch to cover the reel and a bullet would ricochet off it. You had to get something on each end to get the feature sort of like triggering the penguin feature (but it was free games), unlike Mystic Mermaid which was 3 scatters anywhere. Unless of course you meant Kelly Country, which was a slightly newer Stargames PC3 title.

Roll Up Roll Up was basically Spring Carnival with a circus theme (an actual "carnival") instead of horse racing. Not to be confused with that absolutely horrible 2c Jackpot Carnival clown game that Crown Casino used to have, which would always drop the 3 balls in the mini no matter what you did. :)

I still have no idea about the old Tabaret card system. I only know that Crown Casino used to use something by Acres Gaming for their card readers (the old ones with the VFD signs and the rubber buttons that hardly ever worked properly - the Vegas Star roulette machines still have a slightly newer version of them), that name used to show up when a machine was rebooted or if the card reader kept resetting by itself (if it wasn't just sitting there flickering and beeping in the most annoying way possible). The newer touchscreen-based ones seem to be made by IGT (Crown's ones are the same as today's local ones for the YourPlay cards, notably with the text "IGT Systems" visible on the older Stargames/ShuffleMaster machines like 88 Fortunes/Flower of Riches/5 Treasures etc. - I don't know if the ones with the tiny LCD screen are the same or not e.g. the ones which say Monty's Rewards or whatever).

 

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