POLL: Do you REALLY use your coin chutes?

[Martoon]

When I was over at Sasquatch's place to see his cab, he had coin mechs that he used.  He said he liked them because when he has a party and everyone's playing the cab, he can hand out a stack of tokens to each person to make sure no one is hogging the machine.

[bossyman15]

ummm i just thought of something. if you are trying to find and put token in coin slot before count down's over. why not just press pause button then find token and press it again to unpause and put coin in coin slot?

or do you guys don't have pause button?

[RayB]

ummm i just thought of something. if you are trying to find and put token in coin slot before count down's over. why not just press pause button then find token and press it again to unpause and put coin in coin slot?

or do you guys don't have pause button?

   That's cheating!

[MaximRecoil]

The only machine I have is an actual arcade machine so I use quarters, and I wouldn't want it any other way. People who have seen the machine expect that I have, or am planning to, make it so you can play it without a quarter. The concept of something coin-op at home doesn't seem to make sense to them or something. I say, "What ails you? anyway?"

[subcriminal]

But she quickly learned to access the cab from the back and retrieve quarters.

I remember stealing money back out of a cab with a broken base when I was a kid! Didn't know about Isolation transformers, HT leads and 240V stuff!
To emulate arcade machines you need to be putting money in to play! D'oh!

[kaz1961]

I set all mine on free play.

[Level42]

But she quickly learned to access the cab from the back and retrieve quarters.

I remember stealing money back out of a cab with a broken base when I was a kid! Didn't know about Isolation transformers, HT leads and 240V stuff!
To emulate arcade machines you need to be putting money in to play! D'oh!

Made me think of the time I was at an unsupervised "arcade" on a holiday park. Some kid had a lighter that you use to ignite a gas fire (the one's with the sparks when you press on the button). He had bent out the ,metal pin where the sparks are coming from. He pressed it to the coindoors and used it. On many machines, every spark meant a credit..... I remember playing Frogger for hours because he was willing to help others to credits too.....

I haven't had the urge to try it on my cabs though....I don't think it's very healthy for the machines...