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I was at a festival/ carnival thingy yesterday and they had that Kentucky Derby Game where you throw the balls into the holes and the horses race against each other ( or camels on some haha ) ..
I felt like I was 10 years old again haha ...
But as these are usually on Seaside Piers my question is what is your favourite amusement on Seaside Piers...
Slot Machines , Prize Bingo , The 2p drop machines , Basketball game , or something else ?  |
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The old Penny arcade at the end of Southport Pier. It's like visiting the amusements and a museum at the same time. And a very inexpensive way to pass the time too. Plus as I (Mr) am a bit of a mechanics and analogue electronics buff it all has an extra level of magic for me. |
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"I'm the Queen of the 2p pushing machine! 
Jo.Xx
Queen, as in you have timing of the dropping of the coin to perfection ?"
Obviously there's that! 
But generally not allowing anyone else on my machine until I'm done. Plus I end up getting dragged away by my husband because the arcade is closing. 
Jo.Xx |
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"The old Penny arcade at the end of Southport Pier. It's like visiting the amusements and a museum at the same time. And a very inexpensive way to pass the time too. Plus as I (Mr) am a bit of a mechanics and analogue electronics buff it all has an extra level of magic for me."
Sounds lovely  |
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"I'm the Queen of the 2p pushing machine!
Jo.Xx
Queen, as in you have timing of the dropping of the coin to perfection ?
Obviously there's that!
But generally not allowing anyone else on my machine until I'm done. Plus I end up getting dragged away by my husband because the arcade is closing.
Jo.Xx "
Heck |
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"I'm the Queen of the 2p pushing machine!
Jo.Xx
Queen, as in you have timing of the dropping of the coin to perfection ?
Obviously there's that!
But generally not allowing anyone else on my machine until I'm done. Plus I end up getting dragged away by my husband because the arcade is closing.
Jo.Xx "
Hahaha hilarious |
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By *apybarasCouple
over a year ago
High Lighthouse! |
Just the smell of the places take me back to my childhood. The electric tang of the bumper cars, the chips, doughnuts...
I lived 30 mins away from Walton/Clacton as a kid so quite often we would pop over at the weekend.
I still live close today, but don't visit much.
Probably Things like the "crap toy grabbers". I could always pretend I was doing it for my kids (and now grandkids), but really it's because I like them.
Mr C
(Ms C. basically lived on Walton pier as a kid) |
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"Just the smell of the places take me back to my childhood. The electric tang of the bumper cars, the chips, doughnuts...
I lived 30 mins away from Walton/Clacton as a kid so quite often we would pop over at the weekend.
I still live close today, but don't visit much.
Probably Things like the "crap toy grabbers". I could always pretend I was doing it for my kids (and now grandkids), but really it's because I like them.
Mr C
(Ms C. basically lived on Walton pier as a kid)"
Cool  What about the electric shock game haha |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"pennies by the sea" is a great book if you like arcade nostalgia.
Having great grandparents that lived a couple of miles outside Blackpool,I spent a lot of time just wandering round the piers and arcades.My great grandmother ended up getting banned from most of the arcades for tipping the penny falls machines,she was built like a house side if you are thinking little old lady. |
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""pennies by the sea" is a great book if you like arcade nostalgia.
Having great grandparents that lived a couple of miles outside Blackpool,I spent a lot of time just wandering round the piers and arcades.My great grandmother ended up getting banned from most of the arcades for tipping the penny falls machines,she was built like a house side if you are thinking little old lady."
Haha I like her
Nothing more satisfying than walking through a seaside arcade and finding a rogue 4p that's fallen in the tray |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
""pennies by the sea" is a great book if you like arcade nostalgia.
Having great grandparents that lived a couple of miles outside Blackpool,I spent a lot of time just wandering round the piers and arcades.My great grandmother ended up getting banned from most of the arcades for tipping the penny falls machines,she was built like a house side if you are thinking little old lady.
Haha I like her
Nothing more satisfying than walking through a seaside arcade and finding a rogue 4p that's fallen in the tray "
Very formidable,wearing trousers and driving cars in the 1920's,volunteer driver for the army during the war,HGV's Ambulances all sorts.Great buzz finding a coin in the tray,like finding a coin in the reject box of a parking meter.childish but satisfying. |
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""pennies by the sea" is a great book if you like arcade nostalgia.
Having great grandparents that lived a couple of miles outside Blackpool,I spent a lot of time just wandering round the piers and arcades.My great grandmother ended up getting banned from most of the arcades for tipping the penny falls machines,she was built like a house side if you are thinking little old lady.
Haha I like her
Nothing more satisfying than walking through a seaside arcade and finding a rogue 4p that's fallen in the tray
Very formidable,wearing trousers and driving cars in the 1920's,volunteer driver for the army during the war,HGV's Ambulances all sorts.Great buzz finding a coin in the tray,like finding a coin in the reject box of a parking meter.childish but satisfying."
Wow she sounded an amazing woman  |
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"Ooh I forgot the miniature horse racing game where you bet 10p on a specific horse and then inevitably watch it lose
You got me wanting the seaside Grumpy!
Jo.Xx
Pick me up on the way please "
Ooooh, this could be a Fab day out on the beach |
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"Ooh I forgot the miniature horse racing game where you bet 10p on a specific horse and then inevitably watch it lose
You got me wanting the seaside Grumpy!
Jo.Xx
Pick me up on the way please
Ooooh, this could be a Fab day out on the beach "
Haven't been to a beach in years  |
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"Ooh I forgot the miniature horse racing game where you bet 10p on a specific horse and then inevitably watch it lose
You got me wanting the seaside Grumpy!
Jo.Xx
Pick me up on the way please
Ooooh, this could be a Fab day out on the beach
Haven't been to a beach in years "
Me neither, last time was Barmouth two years ago. |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"I was at a festival/ carnival thingy yesterday and they had that Kentucky Derby Game where you throw the balls into the holes and the horses race against each other ( or camels on some haha ) ..
I felt like I was 10 years old again haha ...
But as these are usually on Seaside Piers my question is what is your favourite amusement on Seaside Piers...
Slot Machines , Prize Bingo , The 2p drop machines , Basketball game , or something else ? "
fishing |
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"Ooh I forgot the miniature horse racing game where you bet 10p on a specific horse and then inevitably watch it lose
You got me wanting the seaside Grumpy!
Jo.Xx
Pick me up on the way please
Ooooh, this could be a Fab day out on the beach
Haven't been to a beach in years
Me neither, last time was Barmouth two years ago."
Been 5 years for me |
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"I was at a festival/ carnival thingy yesterday and they had that Kentucky Derby Game where you throw the balls into the holes and the horses race against each other ( or camels on some haha ) ..
I felt like I was 10 years old again haha ...
But as these are usually on Seaside Piers my question is what is your favourite amusement on Seaside Piers...
Slot Machines , Prize Bingo , The 2p drop machines , Basketball game , or something else ? fishing "
Dear oh Dear |
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"All the old machines 5p play have fun and not loose a fortune.
I love the old video games but as they have now become collectible they are rare. "
I used to go Yarmouth a fair bit and always played on the same Monopoly fruit machine haha |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"I'm the Queen of the 2p pushing machine!
Jo.Xx
Growing up in Blackpool we called them the twopenny nudgers.
Give em a nudge, grap the twopences and leg it. "
Hope the tilt alarm doesn't go off |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"More so in the museum type arcades but what about "What the butler saw" machines... or the 10p in the telescopes to look at the sea slightly further away. "
That never worked.
I vaguely remember a sixpence one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bingo with my Nan. Then on to the 2 penny push, before finishing finding Grandad at the fruit machine where I was allowed to pull the big handle to spin it, as the rest of the game was bad as gambling or we sit and play the horses as that wasn’t really gambling either.
If I’d won anything I’d find the laughing policeman box and put my money in to make it laugh.
Simple times, simple pleasures, good times & memories 
Just recently spent a couple of hours in an arcade, was good to relive memories and then give all the tickets away |
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"I like the racing ones too.
I remember the one you're talking about as they had one at Leysdown.
So much fun
I remember how the little balls felt and sounded as they went into the hole."
Don't we all |
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"Bingo with my Nan. Then on to the 2 penny push, before finishing finding Grandad at the fruit machine where I was allowed to pull the big handle to spin it, as the rest of the game was bad as gambling or we sit and play the horses as that wasn’t really gambling either.
If I’d won anything I’d find the laughing policeman box and put my money in to make it laugh.
Simple times, simple pleasures, good times & memories
Just recently spent a couple of hours in an arcade, was good to relive memories and then give all the tickets away "
Absolutely all this yes |
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