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Sure do! In fact, my mom worked in an arcade when I was pretty young. She would hook me up with the quarters painted blue that they use to placate kids whose quarters were "eaten" by the game.
When my mom was dating my stepdad, we went to the arcade often.
When I was a young teen, I figured out you could eke out a few extra tickets if you gently pulled on the tickets that you won.
I liked the shooters the most. Driving was pretty cool too.
Side note, does anyone remember an Aerosmith themed shooter where you were the band, and you shot nondescript thugs? It was the kind of console that had the plastic gun. Pretty sure they were uzi style. I also remember the special button shot gold records.
That's awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_X never played it though.
Revolution X was so lame it was cool.
That's it! I haven't seen one in over 20 years. I always thought it was a weird concept for a video game
HOLY SHIT, I wish I knew about this when I was in rehab with Steven Tyler.
Oh arcades do the blue quarters thing too? I guess that sense. My grandpa owned a bar and he had a stack of blue quarters to put in the jukebox whenever a song wasn't playing. It was since he didn't own the jukebox and the guy who emptied the quarters knew not to take the blue ones.
The only time I've ever seen that was back in the day at that arcade. Pretty slick system though