Slugs

Scuba Steve

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BITD did you ever use coin shaped slugs at the local arcade? Well I must confess that I use to hammer pennies until they were the size of a quarter. Then I would super glue them together to get the right thickness. Can't believe I went through all that trouble just to replicate 25 cents!
 
Not slugs, but my buddies mom somehow got hundreds of tokens from K Marts gameroom. We used those to play Congorilla (bootleg DK) at the corner deli for weeks. It was setup for quarters, so you kind of had to flick the tokens in with force to trip the mech.

The games got a lot of play, so I guess the deli owner and op had to do some sleuthing to narrow down who was dropping the K Mart tokens.

The owner was Chinese and 30 years later my buddy and still do the politically incorrect impression of when he finally busted us...

"Heyyyyy a-you two! No maw Kaaaay-Maaaat coin!"
 
Nice one.

We had a small arcade in the neighborhood run by a husband/wife. I remember one time I was fiddling with the reject button on a door because the slot was jammed up. Well, it finally broke loose and several coins fell into the reject slot.

jingle jingle jingle

The owner popped up and walked over there and found me holding a French franc.

After that, he always called me 'frank'.

Kerry
 
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