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Offline Steve2010

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Dropping the Front End for Free Games
« on: March 18, 2015, 03:52:07 PM »
Wow, here's an intersting story I came across ....

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.games.pinball/g9JIS_zmmAQ/2PeNyH12jFsJ

Good thing we have our games set on free play, right?

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Re: Dropping the Front End for Free Games
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2015, 08:30:06 PM »
Like the discussion the other day about free games from a static discharge on arcade games, only somewhat more destructive!
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”

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Re: Dropping the Front End for Free Games
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2015, 09:18:35 PM »
Ah the good old days of playing pins down at the Student Union Bar in between lectures and tutes - the bar manager conveniently had a spare key to the machine which the operator had left him to fix ball hangups.

It was a fair trade off to spend a few bucks at the front bar and get a dozen free games clocked up on the game in return.

IJ, Tommy Pinball Wizard and a near mint TAF were the machine I remember.

IJ particularly because I later bought it off the operator once I had saved up the funds to afford it  - the princely sum of $800.  ^&^

A hefty amount on at that time a student's part time wages.




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Re: Dropping the Front End for Free Games
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2015, 09:22:59 PM »
well i wish i was a student when ij was on site.
The only logical way a machine could give a free game by slaming it would be if a coin was stuck in the mech.
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