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1984 Arcade Review (Springfield, Missouri)
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Flack:
Personally I didn't find the blue buttons took away from the experience at all. My only "memories" of tokens would be losing them in non-working or jammed coin slots. I liked the fact that all the buttons were blue and they were all located in roughly the same place (down near the real coin slots) so you didn't have to figure out what to do on each particular machine. As a owner of 20 or so cabs myself I can tell you it's always a pain when people come over and you have to explain which games are on free play and which ones you have to open and flick the switch on. Bending over and pressing the blue button each time felt close enough to putting a coin in for me.

The only downside I saw with the system was that before we got there someone had inserted about five-billion credits on Gauntlet and walked away, so not only could you not restart the game but you also got to hear Warrior saw "Ow!" for an hour or so. I am sure had we mentioned it to the guys there they would have gladly cycled the machine's power for us but (a) there was another Gauntlet right next to that one if we had wanted to play, and (b) I have a Gauntlet at home so we didn't even end up playing Gauntlet that day.

Ever since I got back home I've been thinking about adding coin buttons to all my machines at home as well. I thought the system worked great. I hate trying to continue a game and reaching into my pocket only to find no quarters/tokens left!

@Luigi: I took several more pix but did not post them all. Unfortunately I don't seem to have many pix of the main snack/lounge/game room. Here are the pictures from my trip:

http://www.robohara.com/albums/1984_Arcade
1984arcade:
We are *constantly* having to cycle the Gauntlets.  People tend to run the guys up to 100,000 health and then walk away.  In the end it doesn't really bother us because it's something no one ever really got to do back in the day... who would have had 100 quarters to drop into Gauntlet?

We try to keep an eye on them and cycle them as soon as people walk away.
More Cowbell:
Sure wish we had someplace like yours up here in Chicago. If I ever have the opportunity to take a trip down there, I will definitely stop in.
vintagegamer:

--- Quote from: MinerAl on June 23, 2007, 06:01:45 pm ---Lots of games, classic or not, do not run the attract modes when set on free play.  They get stuck on the "Press Player 1 or 2" screen and burn in after a while.   The arcade would be dull as hell if there were no attract modes :)

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It's for this exact reason I'm thinking of setting my Ms Pac back up for quarter play.  The free play setup is LAME!!!

shorthair:

--- Quote from: 1984arcade on June 25, 2007, 03:56:10 pm ---...who would have had 100 quarters to drop into Gauntlet?


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Dude, that's only twenty-five bucks. I saw kids who were pumping quarters in like that back then on that machine. And any time I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain in California, I saw the economic difference between me and the kids who played in their arcade.

There were arcades here that had periods of free play, so I'm guessing they had a button. I just don't remember. Flack, I'm surprised you didn't get a whole bunch of tokens at your house till now.
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