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Morality issue
ChadTower:
Of course, charging has the deterrent effect of stopping drunk --missioncontrols-- from knocking on his door at 1am to play. Trust me, if he has a MAME cab in a freshmen dorm, it will happen. It will happen a lot.
fredster:
I was at the auction and found 2 Mame machines that took quarters. I bet they are out on the street now making somebody some cash.
Lilwolf:
one thing you can do is this
take your coin mech out. take it apart.... hack it to take any coin (pennies / nickles / quarters)..
then its not as much a big deal. have a dish of pennies next to it and your done...
but I wouldn't charge anything myself... Most games are more fun with two...
Tilzs:
If you really wanted to charge you might be able to work something out with the hall council and arange to have the machine in a common area (for a cut going to the hall council). But then you have the headache of it being in the common area and who knows what can happen to it there.
Some halls are pretty strict on copyright stuff though so this being pretty grey (well downright illegal) might stay away from it just for that.
I know we had a big fuss about public showing with our movie night for a while.
AlanS17:
Well I had an MK3 machine and Killer Instinct machine in my frat house. Both were left to pay and together they made about $200 in 3 months. Nobody ever complained about paying for games, either. However, if I were there playing I'd set it to free play and then just put it to charge again when I left.
However, for the $200 it made, I probably gave away over $1500 in free games. So nobody really minded. Nobody got upset at me for locking the box. These were nice machines and nobody wanted to see them damaged or broken into.
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