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ChadTower:
Heh, Randy's story reminded me of something. When my kids and I are at Funspot we're always trolling around looking for free credits. Happens all the time, too. Despite the fact that we get 150 tokens for $20, and nearly every classic there is one token, we're still cruising for free credits. Since they are so cheap we find them all the time. Old habits die hard and are even passed on to your kids. I'll have enough tokens in my pocket to last 3 hours and I'm still peering at the credits in every game I pass. :laugh2:
shmokes:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 15, 2011, 09:55:43 am ---This is a bad habit I can't shake, but I hoard all the tokens I find in games that I buy and then take them into arcades to play for free. :P I'm sure we've all had the experience of finding substantial amounts of them rolling around the bottom of a conversion, too.
To make up for it, nowadays I'll usually buy $10-20 in tokens and just not spend them all. Trust me, has absolutely nothing to do with running out of time. I take them home to be altruistic to the arcade. Seriously.
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That's funny. It sounds like something ark_ader would say, except believable.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 15, 2011, 12:54:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 15, 2011, 09:55:43 am ---This is a bad habit I can't shake, but I hoard all the tokens I find in games that I buy and then take them into arcades to play for free. :P I'm sure we've all had the experience of finding substantial amounts of them rolling around the bottom of a conversion, too.
To make up for it, nowadays I'll usually buy $10-20 in tokens and just not spend them all. Trust me, has absolutely nothing to do with running out of time. I take them home to be altruistic to the arcade. Seriously.
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That's funny. It sounds like something ark_ader would say, except believable.
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You said it Shmokes... That guy man... ::)
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 14, 2011, 12:00:08 am ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on March 12, 2011, 04:31:32 pm ---
I would hit the arcades that would give you 60 tokens for $10 on a Saturday, then give them to my friends at school who could not afford to play.
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That's awesome. Almost as charitable as how you donate blood once a month (even though they wouldn't let you if you wanted to) and how you magically will it to be used in Haiti as opposed to any less deserving people in the world. You're amazing. :applaud:
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Thanks Shmokes. I'm giving blood this Friday, and I'm going to mentally teleport it Haiti, just for you!
Well I was being honest back in the day, and working full time when you were in diapers.
And I'm still working full time, and being charitable while you are lounging around on your friends sofa, wasting your days on the computer. :laugh2:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on March 15, 2011, 01:31:46 pm ---
You said it Shmokes... That guy man... ::)
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Is that English?
Dervacumen:
--- Quote from: OverRide on March 10, 2011, 11:47:36 pm ---We had a hole punch in shop class and could punch out slugs and use them on our lunch at the bowling alley.
When I was 12ish we would walk through the mall and go up to strangers and ask for 1/4's to call our parents to pick us up. It always worked, and in no time we were back in the arcade playing more vids. >:D
At the 7/11 I would tell the store owner that my 1/4 I put in did no register and they would take a 1/4 from the till, mark it with a magic marker and give it to me. I played many rounds of Golden Axe on 7/11's dime.
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I did not do this.
What I did do was check out store promotion. A 5 gallon jug mostly full of water with a shot glass at the bottom. If a client was able to drop a dime in to the shot glass at the bottom of the 5 gallon jug, they were awarded a free fountain soda. I recreated the apparatus at home and practiced until I could win most of the time. I even tried drilling a dime to reduce resistance, but the clerks at the store disallowed that. I then racked up a tab of free drinks at the store in a matter of about 3 days. I think it was about 25 or so. Then around the neighborhood I asked the parents of my friends if they wanted me to buy them a Coke, and said I would get it for them. They gave me the full purchase price and I went to the store, cashed in the $$, I think it was about $1.25 at the time. Then I used my banked tab and got a free drink. I took the drink back, then went back to the store to spend my $$ on Joust, Mr. Do!, Satan's Hollow, Ms. Pacman, Etc....
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