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jgrantham7

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My wife picked up a vs. Super Mario Bros. upright a couple of weeks ago at a garage sale for my youngest son. It was in great shape, but the previous owners never set it to free play (requires setting DIP switches on the board).
Since I didn't hop on it right away, she tossed a handful of change on the table next to the game, and let the kids play.

Of course, a few days later they came to me and said they couldn't get it to play anymore. I found that one of the coin slots was jammed. So, I just took it apart, and found well over three dollars jammed in the mechanism.
The kids had fed pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters into the slot, and kept feeding it.

Did you know that a mechanism would hold that much?

Lesson learned: "Get around to it" a lot faster when it comes to games.
 
Cool score. SMB rocks. Impressive total for a mech. Anybody top that?
 
Thats pretty funny

My nephew managed to jam over 60 tokens into my Rapid Fire's coin mechs somehow. Took a bit to get them out too! With him (2 year old at the time) its all about pushing coins in the slots, not playing the game.
 
That sounds like the type of garage sale I'd be at, then I'd wake up. Nice score.

She actually went over there to drop off a saxophone she was trying to sell to the owner. My 7 year old saw the machine and made a bee-line to it. She called and said they wanted $400 for it and asked if that was a good price. I told her to offer $300 and let them talk her up to $350. They took the $300. And they delivered too!

A few dings, but in great shape.
 
Did you know that a mechanism would hold that much?

I found $7 in the coin mech of a TMNT once, just over that in a Star Wars Pod Racer. Seems that if people lose one quarter, its not worth telling the attendant. Though some will bitch more about a lost quarter than others will about a whole dollar.
 
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