In January 1982, Fred Gee was invited at the last minute to attend Newton & Ridley's 200th anniversary banquet at Cornbrook Hall with Annie Walker, where he proceeded to get paralytic. As well as dancing drunkenly with Sarah Ridley, ordering a new car from a fellow diner and offering a job in his "Restaurant" to Phyllis Lomax, he also ordered a space invaders machine for the Rovers.
The Delivery Man and his colleague turned up at the pub the next day with the machine. The regulars immediately took to the device but Annie Walker, when she returned from a shopping trip and saw the latest addition to her public house, was less than impressed and tore a strip off Fred.