Mottrex
Sr Member
Here in the UK we had Cigarette machines that often held their change but a swift tap on the side dispensed an old two or five pence.As a kid i collected cans and bottles, checked payphones for quarters just to get a chance to play Super Mario bros. , Ninja Gaiden and Double Dragon!!!
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When the NES came out it was all about Ninja Gaiden
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These games had a reputation for being extremely hard to beat...So i beat all of them and recorded all the end boss defeats on VCR. Since that time i am no longer a wizard...as my sons can tell you. If there are more than 2 buttons on a controller, i'm out. lol
Back in the midst of time.. 1971 We had a change of currency rendering a lot of smaller coins and for some reason an overly large one penny useless..
Now my grand parents owned a pub and had a bottle full of old pennys, the thing was although no monetary value still worked in these new slot machines.
We spent many a happy hour in our local Swimming pool reck rooms which had a Defender cabinet, which back then was always like a sauna and stunk of chlorine but we loved it!