Aristocrat Silver Jubilee

[MarkInAz]

I've taken the plunge into the word of Aristocrat this past week.  Got a cool looking game called Free Kick.  It also reads Silver Jubilee.  I've been scouring both NLG & the rest of the web and not found any info, not even a photo.  Don't see any marking identifying it as an IGT/Aristocrat.  I did find the program chart which reads Free Kick, ZE797, Ver 1, 15/11/86.  Can find a model number but did find a serial no tag which reads CT3204, Ainsworth Consolidated Industries, NSW Austrialia. I tried to power it up but no luck, only the florescents come on.  I think its missing some of its guts.  So my first question is what model of a machine is this-  Esprit, Elite, MK1, Silver Jubilee?    

[Op-Bell]

It's an Australian Aristocrat, and it looks like an Esprit, though not a model that was distributed in the US by IGT. You will have to open the door and take some photos of the inside. If it's an Esprit it will have the word "ATLAS" on the front metal of the reel mech, and the electronics package will be in a perforated metal box about 7 by 8 by 3 inches in the bottom left.

[MarkInAz]

Hmm, I don't see anything that says Atlas.  Heres a look at the reels with the motherboard attached to the bottom.  I can see the battery & is not leaking, so that's a good sign.  As you can see in the top box there is only the meters.   What do you thing?

Mark

[Op-Bell]

What do I think? Unfortunately, I think it's a machine I haven't seen before and don't know anything about. It looks like stepper motor reels. It's later than an Esprit and during those years, Aristocrat were totally shut out of the US market thanks to the gaming authorities being unwilling to license Len Ainsworth. So I think it's very unlikely you'll find much help for it here in the US. Perhaps one of our Australian members might know something - Fiddlefarter works or worked for Ainsworth.

[MarkInAz]

Arrg, that's not very encouraging OpBell.    Yes, the reels are steppers and that seems about right for a machine dated 1986 I'd think.  I was reading that Esprit's came out in 1979, followed by Elan in 83 which had a corcell hopper (which mine does not), then the Microstar MK1 in 84.  And in 1987 the MK2 came out which was a video machine it said.  What it didn't say was IF the MK1 was a video or not.  So I'm thinking by my date mine may be a MK1.

Here a better photos of the entire inside if it helps anyone.