*boggle*

[Tailgunner]

I've been disassembling my Hard Drivin' cab to get together a list of what's busted, missing, ect. Pulled out the coin door and found the coin meter. Since the cab was built in '89, it has taken in 265,733 quarters. While I'll admit Hard Drivin was a pretty cool game, and the first "3D" driving simulation, I was still sort of stunned after doing the math. This $25 cab made over $65,000 in it's operational lifetime. 

While I would expect Ms. Pac/Pacman/Galaga cabs to have big meter numbers after all these years in laundromats, HD isn't one I would have expected to have done that well.

To Ken or anyone else who might would know, what's the average coin meter count on a 20 year old cab?

[M3talhead]

That does seem kinda high, but I guess it all depends on location/placement. My Mortal Kombat 3 machine (which was buit in April of 95), had a coin counter reading 44702 hits when I got it last winter, which means that it saw about $11,175.50 worth of play.

[TOK]

If I remember correctly, Hard Drivin' cost 50 cents (I think some were even more) when it was new. If that counter counts coins and not plays, you have to cut the number at least in half.

[geomartin]

If I remember correctly, Hard Drivin' cost 50 cents (I think some were even more) when it was new. If that counter counts coins and not plays, you have to cut the number at least in half.

You wouldn't have to cut the number in half.  The earnings would still be the same.  Tailgunner posted earnings, not number of plays.  Now if it counts total plays and not coins dropped it may have earned more.  But I suspect that the counter is counting coins dropped.

Geo

[missioncontrol]

if that HD came out of the arcade they had in the Great Lakes Navel Training Center then half those coin counts were my quarters...........

[Ken Layton]

The numbers I have seen on many games over the years have ranged from 39,000 to 343,000 or so.

[USSEnterprise]

makes it sould like a good investment

[Q*Bert_OP]

397,422 on my SFA3 original cab before conversion was built in '89

[TOK]

If I remember correctly, Hard Drivin' cost 50 cents (I think some were even more) when it was new. If that counter counts coins and not plays, you have to cut the number at least in half.

You wouldn't have to cut the number in half.  The earnings would still be the same.  Tailgunner posted earnings, not number of plays.  Now if it counts total plays and not coins dropped it may have earned more.  But I suspect that the counter is counting coins dropped.

Geo

Thanks for the correction, that was a major brain fart. 

[RayB]

HD cost us in Canada $1 when it came out. So the counter would have increased by 4 credits each time someone played. Makes sense it would be much higher than a 25c game.

[monkeybomb]

I have a Jamma cabinet that started as a SFII: CE  and then it was converted into a NEO Geo 4-slot.   It has 118579, so $29,644.75

[Stingray]

I suspect that the counter is counting coins dropped.

That's why they call it a coin counter.

-S

[Q*Bert_OP]

397,422 on my SFA3 original cab before conversion was built in '89

Which is $ 99,355.50!

[Tailgunner]

I would expect conversions to have a higher than average coin count, especially one that started life as a popular game in the first place. I was mostly looking for cabs that don't lend themself to conversion. JAMMA or cartridge systems cabs are a problem as with a board switch, side art stickers, and a new marquee it's a different game and there's no telling what all has been in the cab.

I'll have to check my other cabs for comparison, only one I know off hand is my Spy Hunter sitdown. It's counter is in the 70,000 range, which isn't bad concidering how much time a Spy Hunter would sit unplugged with an "out of order" sign taped to it.