Question about Mario Bros. Player 2...

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Is there a player 2 buy-in for Mario Bros?

Example, if you play as player 1, can another player pop in some credits and jump in as player 2?

Right now this is not an option on our Mario Bros. machine and causes quite confusion (and people demanding refunds). Sometimes this is a problem when father and son or boyfriend and girlfriend want to play during the day... then at night turns into a drunken discussion/argument when two guys press player 1 instead of player 2.

When I was a kid playing Mario Bros. at my Boys Club of Santa Monica, I thought also that there was a player 2 buy-in... but maybe I just hallucinated the whole thing...
 
Hears a crazy idea, if theres a player two button..maybe that allows two players during the game!!! If theres a player one button - OMG! One player plays that game! Sounds crazy, right?

But in all seriousness, just put a note or sign on the machine that says you can not "buy-in" or "join-in" during a game. That way if people argue or demand a refund, you can show them the sign.
 
You think it would be that easy, but I swear 9 out of 10 times I have a customer demanding 50¢ refund because he hit Player 1 instead of Player 2 or doesn't understand why he can't join in a current game. I never have these questions/problems with Joust?

Hears a crazy idea, if theres a player two button..maybe that allows two players during the game!!! If theres a player one button - OMG! One player plays that game! Sounds crazy, right?

But in all seriousness, just put a note or sign on the machine that says you can not "buy-in" or "join-in" during a game. That way if people argue or demand a refund, you can show them the sign.
 
I used to have a similar problem with linked driving games when I worked at a bowling alley. People thought that if they put all the money required for play into the same machine that it would coin up both units, not so. They would get mad because only one of them would be able to play and the other person would have to wait to use the game that got coined up twice. I had notes on the coin doors of the drivers (4 different games with one linked pair each for a total of 8 units and one oddball game). It didn't matter, they did it anyway. When they complained, I referred them to the note. I was pretty stiff with refunds. If people can't figure out how to play arcade games, one wonders how they can perform any of the hundred or so mundane activities required for normal daily life.
 
You can't fix stupid and notes won't help as the kind of people who do things like this are the kind of people that walk around not reading anything.
 
I think the confusion is in the wording. To be more clear the button labels should be changed from:

Player 1
Player 2

to

1 Player
2 Players

Or maybe something like that, could a note be added to the CPO?
 
Yeah, you can't fix stupid.
Any game I've seen that lets you join in while 1 player is already playing has it flashing at the top right to "insert coin to join"

Don't know why you don't have the same problem with Joust. It doesn't let a 2nd player join in either.
 
Mario Bros attracts morons via vague NES memories that are properly attached to SMB 3, Joust does not.

Yeah, you can't fix stupid.
Any game I've seen that lets you join in while 1 player is already playing has it flashing at the top right to "insert coin to join"

Don't know why you don't have the same problem with Joust. It doesn't let a 2nd player join in either.
 
Just had 2 guys argue with me that they hit 2 player on Mario but only 1 player showed up... low and behold there was a credit after I killed Player 1/Mario and after calmly explaining what happened they still swear to drunken God that they pressed player 1. I made sure to press player 2 before I left... grumble grumble....


I swear most of my job sometimes is telling people that the machine needs not 1 but 2 quarters to play and that the machine didn't steal their money... all they have to do is press the start button... or in the case of Mario Bros., PRESS 1 FOR MARIO/ONE PLAYER or PRESS 2 FOR MARIO AND LUIGI/ TWO PLAYER.

WOW I just had to explain to a customer that you need to put 2 quarters in Donkey Kong and that it will not make a dig or show 1/2 credit with only one quarter... FUCK!!!!!!!
 
Is the 2 P button working? Have you tried to start a 2p game? has a wire come off the button switch? If one person is playing Mario Brothers and another walks up to join in it should coin up and start player 2. I'll have to check mine for sure.
 
You can coin up whenever you want, but I'm pretty sure you can't join mid game, which is where the confusion is coming from.
 
Like I said, I never have this problem with joust... which is more or less the same type of game. I think people that grew up in the Nintendo age think way back when they could just press the RESTART button on their NES's and start 2 player....


I JUST had to remind a dad to hit 2 player on Mario Brothers... first customers for today.
 
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