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Re: The ol' quarter-on-a-string trick
04/24/22 04:40 PM
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> Has anyone else ever seen someone use a quarter on a string to play arcade games for > free? I've only seen it done once. I believe the game was Xevious, and this kid had a > quarter with a hole in it on a string, and he would put the quarter in, it would make > a louder than usual metallic latching sound, the game would credit him, then he'd > pull the quarter back out by the string. > > I wonder if that would still work nowadays? As I recall, the game had a horizontal > coin slot that was all metal, not the red, rectangular, plastic coin slot that most > arcade machines have. Maybe the red ones are the new kind to prevent this trick from > working.
Do it with a slot machine and the machine will disable itself and show "Call Attendant - Coin Yoyo" or similar.
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