Mod for Sanwa sticks using Versa Micro switches. 





Voila!

Runs silent, great response.
I remember the arcades well. Dont worry about what your little ones could do by hanging on a joystick. its teenagers, and its also the 5 foot 300 lb 10 year old that will just kill a machine, or try to. also, your grown up friends if you dont watch them. I spent my youth in arcades and i distincly remember for some kids all it took was one quarter not registering to see them beat the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the control panel and when that didnt work on more than one occasion i saw then take a running kick or two at the coin door.
Now that i think about it it really didnt matter that much anyway, it was their moms money after all.
this was also right around the time that operators started installing cameras. after that, the morons definately learned to play nice with the machines.
i even remember myself getting frustrated one night and taking a good whack at the screen. even then i never saw the point of hurting my hands though.
it wasnt until years later when i came to own a machine did i realize that that monitor protector on some machines, is in fact REAL glass, or i never would have thought of it. hell if i had known that back then, ida told the super determined to get his quarter back idiot that it would definately give him his quarter back if he hit the screen good. that wouldve stopped that mess quick. i had always believed that the glass on top of the monitor was plexiglass.
ahh, memories.