How to determine number of lifetime plays?

jrivelli

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So, I was watching auction hunters and they had an Apoll 13 pin that claimed to have something like 113 plays on it. I realize tv blah blah blah.

Anyways, it made me wonder if there is a way I am not aware of to determine the lifetime plays on a machine? The counts on the memory can easily be reset with battery changes, obviously.
 
I don't think there is any way to determine this. However some European models have physical play counters which may be accurate. That is unless someone tampered with the counter. So if you are looking at a re-import you might have a better idea of the actual number of plays.
 
Battery failure or ram chip corruption would be the more likely cause for a low number of plays. Also, someone could have cleared the audits/books totals.

In general, most electronic pinballs did not come with or have hardwired "total play" counting meters like the electromechanical pinballs did.
 
Battery failure or ram chip corruption would be the more likely cause for a low number of plays. Also, someone could have cleared the audits/books totals.

In general, most electronic pinballs did not come with or have hardwired "total play" counting meters like the electromechanical pinballs did.

Cool, thanks! I really didn't think there was and thought it was funny they were freaking out there was only barely over 100 plays and they advertised it as such
 
Even a hard-wired play meter can be wrong. I must have at least 500 extra "plays" on my Aztec from when I couldn't get the sucker to start a game. And that was just one problem!
 
Yes indeed even hardwired meters can be wrong. I've seen them double count, skip count, get stuck, and sometimes burn up! Any meter reading should just be used as a "rough guide" as to the amount of play a machine has.
 
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