> 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.
Yup... I've seen it in action for real more than one, at some of the local liquor stores, back when they all had games in them. I don't remember which type of coin slot or what game though.
Story time... one day I'm playing Space Ace at the store right by my house, and while I'm playing, I bumped the machine in one area on accident, and it added a credit. It was somewhere half way between the control panel and the coin slot... I'm guessing the "add a credit" switch had come loose or something, and was leaning against the coin door, or something like that.
During the next game, I played around, and found the spot, and I kept on adding credits. Ended up playing for at least an hour... might have been two... until at some point, the owner figured out something weird was going on, then he walked over and unplugged the game.
RELAX and just have fun. Remember, it's all about the games.
|
Previous 
Index 
Next 
Flat 
Re: The ol' quarter-on-a-string trick
Reply
