Showboat Amusement Arcade

Showboat is one of many tiny gambling arcades based in and around the city centre and often frequented by pensioners. This is one of the bigger ones and has bingo machines, roulette machines, fruit machines and digital slot machines.
The biggest jackpot’s that you can win here are £500 on the digital machines and £70 on the fruit machines. They offer various promotional offers from time to time to entice customers to stay longer in the hope of winning free plays.
It’s quite dark and dingy in here and quite disheartening that these places are dotted all over the city, especially given a time of recession. That said, I suppose this offers certain groups of people a community where they can gamble at their leisure without joining a casino. They offer free hot drinks and snacks to anyone using their machines, and the staff are friendly and obliging throughout!