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| gajaman:
If you hold a 10p coin with the index finger of your left hand so that it is being held by the pressure of your finger in the 50p slot of Defender then hit said index finger about at the knuckle joint "karate chop" style with you right hand the coin spins backwards into the slot and gives five credits. Used to work about 1 in 5 times. Problems experienced: The coin spins but instead of in the slot it comes backwards straight towards the floor and inevitably flys across the floor of the arcade either out of reach or into a bigger kids reach. You catch the nail of you left finger on the bottom of the coin slot mid chop - owww You catch the big old reject button with your right hand during your chop. I once convinced another kid to let me "borrow" his finger so I could concentrate on a very hard chop... this worked about 2 or 3 times out of five, but you run out of volunteers real quick... Happy days!! |
| Chris:
I seem to recall jiggling the plug on Space Wars, which would give you free time... usually only a few seconds or so, but I remember once getting 8 minutes on the clock that way! I had a friend who would hang out near Sprint 2 machines, w hich would play 1 or 2 players on a single quarter... when a single player put his quarter in, he would leap forward and hit the 2 player start button and help himself to a game... |
| Magnet_Eye:
--- Quote from: DeathMonk on March 10, 2003, 10:18:01 am ---Search every machine by pulling up on the joysticks to see which ones were left open (there was always quite a few that were).. Then just manually hit the coin mech. --- End quote --- ah yes, i remember doing that...either find control panels that they didn't close properly, or sometimes the wood around a joystick would be so hammered that you could lift the actual stick and get in there. hell, i remember kids that would grab hold of the joysticks and shake and pull them like crazy trying to get the control panel to break open. damn kids are crazy!!! ;D the things we would do... :-X |
| SirPoonga:
If oyu get atari arcade classic for the pc it is known that you could get free games of pong buy taking something about the size and density of a pool ball and hit a certain screw on the coin door to get free credits. |
| RetroBorg:
We had a huge Arcade centre in Adelaide, South Australia called Downtown, they had carpet that was made out of nylon I think and kids noticed as they went to put a 20 cent coin in the coin slot that there would be a static discharge which gave them a free credit, next thing you know every kid was rubbing their feet on the carpet to create a static charge. Downtown spent thousand of dollars ripping out their carpets and replacing them with one that didn't build up static. That's when the lighters came in. |
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