Back in the 90's there were a fantastic collection of Video fruit machines. Originally on 20p £6 tokens. They were amoung some of the best machines to date. The streaks were huge and even when they were in a bad mood they still played quite well. Offered enough to keep you playing.

Red Hot Poker was pretty unique at this time. A video poker machine. Way better than any other video poker machine made since! Joker poker? No, move over!

This clip is what they were all about!



5 jackpots! Now that was one big pocket of tokens.

There was a cash repeater aswell along with other win combos. It had marked card to make you think you had the edge!



This machine did nasty things to you though. Higher than a 2, 2 lose! How can that be?



Another nice touch was the 'wild' joker cards. These would sometimes hold over and increase upto 4. If you got upto 4 and started a new game then you pretty much knew that you were going to hit a decent win!



I bought the machine on ebay from stemik gaming a few years back for only £50 + £50 delivery. What a bargin!

Stemik still to this day supply fruit machines on ebay at good prices. From all the companies on ebay their machines are by far the cleanest most looked after machines you can buy. They do tend to be a bit more expensive but you really do get what you pay for!



As with most machines I got bored of it and put it back on ebay.If I remember correctly it sold for £80! I had the machine for about a year and only lost £20 when selling it on. Can't be bad.




I'd love to own another like it. Would have to have the same prize set up. You do sometimes see others like it on ebay but they areusually all 5p play and £4 jackpots which are really not worth the time, day or money!





Overall, BWB made some rubbish in it's time but one things for sure, these were spot on!

Roll onto 2009 and theres no more playable machines out there. With stakes going upto £1 and jackpots £70 this really could be the end of the fruit machine... 50p £35 was almost a step too far but £1 a go? Seriously, the average punter isn't going to put £20 in a machine to get a feature worth £5.

Our only hope is nobody plays them and all cash boxes take a massive hit.