Les Manley
Well-known member
We've all seen something scratched into the side of a game like intials or nice words...
Are you guilty of ever doing something to a cab that you shouldn't have been doing?
Breaking in, getting free credits or just beating the hell out of it.
I was never one to destroy stuff, so I never thought to do anything like that. I just wanted to play them.
And YOU?
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I never broke or vandalized a game, but free games, that was different. I remember 4 unique times as a broke lad.
#1 - I could get at the back door of a Birdie King game at a local mini golf place. The door was unlocked, so I took it off, looked in the manual for the dipswitch settings for the game and changed it to free play.
#2 - At a local waterslide fun park someone left the coin door on Street Fighter II unlocked. I played all day against others for free, I honestly don't think I went on one waterslide that day even though I had already bought my pass to go on them.
#3 - We figured out we could slide up the bezel of a conversion game at the local bowling alley. We could stick our hand down there and give ourselves free credits. This worked for months.
#4 - For some reason nickels started working as quarters in the MK3 at the University of Minnesota. Everyone went to the bank and got rolls of nickels and played that game non-stop for two days until the operator figured it out.
...and as an (dis)honorable mention, at the roller skating rink they had vending machines that gave out pad locks in plastic capsules. We had skinny enough hands that we could reach up the shoot and open the capsule which let the lock fall out down the shoot. The next person to pay would get an empty open capsule, then we would do it again. Not sure why locks were such a fascination for us, but we got lots of them.
Forgive me brentradio, for I have sinned.
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