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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.
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> 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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