James Drew of York has written a book on his fruit machine addiction - and how he won and lost thousands of pounds as a young man in the 1980s. Here is his story... ABOUT one-quarter-of-a-million ...

For some reason, when slot machines went digital, they lost their best feature — the handle. Who wants to push a button on a slot machine, anyway? Might as well just play video poker. [John Bradnam] ...