PE+ Break Away Video Slot

[CW880]

Hello everyone!

I am a new member to NLG but I have been reading a lot and this is a great site for info on the vintage slots! I have been unable to find any info on the Players Edge Break Away video slot. It looks the same as any of the PE+ 3 reel 3 pay line slots except it uses hockey players instead of fruits or 7's. The top payout of 4000 coins was a blue hockey player, a red goalie and a yellow SCORES! symbol. 3 SCORES! was 1000, 3 goalies was 600 and 3 hockey players was 400. I cannot remember what the bars paid but this game was my favorite slot on the PE+. Max bet was 3 coins and that covered the middle, top and bottom pay line. This game was on the multi game configuration with the printer instead of the coin hopper. The other 3 games on this set were Jackpot Jungle, Bonus Poker with a built in progressive on 4 Jacks - Aces and Jacks or Better. I believe the model # on the side of the machine was 8284C. Has anyone here ever heard of this game before? I am beginning to think it was designed specifically for Video Lotto Manitoba which would make it extremely difficult to track down. They upgraded all their machines to Game Kings in August 2004. Attached is a picture of the bottom glass from a machine. Please share any info...

Chris

[CW880]

I managed to finally locate the top glass from this machine. It is definitely the Players Choice Multi Game with the chipset MG0XXX. It has been difficult to find these and they do not work in MAME because of the printer error.

[knagl]

Wow, this is awesome.  I hadn't seen your original post from 2018.

Do you have any of the chipsets?  Member BrianT is the current MAME expert around here, and I'm sure would be very interested in getting copies of the chips if you have them.  He might also be able to get around any printer issue in MAME, or I can reach out to Stolistic who ported the PE+ into MAME to see if he could do so.

[CW880]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I do not have any of the chipsets from these games. I have been searching for 16 years and always hit a dead end just like I did today when I bought the matching top glass to Break Away. If I had the chipsets, I could build one of these by buying a regular PE+ which are common and swapping out the coin hopper for a printer. I believe the MG0XXX Players Choice chipsets require the super board to run and you would leave the Data socket empty. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. There was another member asking about removing a modem which I know the Break Away machines and others like it had. They were connected via phone line to a central system that Video Lotto monitored and they would be disabled after 2:15 AM until 9:00 AM. There was also a CVT (Clerk Validation Terminal) connected in the establishment that was used to validate winning tickets and for accounting info. I am not 100% sure if these machines will work as standalone without modifications. There is not too much more I can tell you about these since they have been out of service since 2004. The 2 confirmed chip numbers are MG0268 which held the Double Bonus nickel slot game, Jacks or Better and Joker Poker. MG0173 held Home Run, Lucky 7's, Joker Poker and Jacks or Better.
The closest chipset to these on MAME is MG0252 which is not working due to the Printer Error. It would be great if you could reach Stolistic since it would probably be a walk in the park for him to create a workaround for the printer. The other potential issue once the printer is taken care of would be these machines also had a monitored lower door on the stands for the coins to drop into since there was no hopper labelled as the "cash door" in the test menu. I would be happy to provide any other info I may have.

Chris