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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ravager" data-source="post: 56522" data-attributes="member: 889"><p>Must have been in the late 60s. My mom was in a bowling league, and she would bring me along. When I outgrew the day room, I would wander around the bowling alley and would watch the kids play pinball. When I finally got some change, I played, and did the two hand slap (I was 4) and so the balls drained quickly. I really wanted one of those cheap plastic pinball machines for my 5th, 6th, and 7th birthdays, but my parents weren't having any of it. When I was 11 my parents bought a camper and I would go to the rec rooms and play pinball all of the time. I wish I could remember all the EM tables I played, but I can't As a kid, I had no money, and so I was always scamming the operators out of the cost of a game or two. One way was lifting the front end of machine and dropping it, which would give you credit for a quarter. This worked on some machines, but not all. Then there was a way to get credit for one penny. It took patience, but always worked on certain tables. You would need seven cents...two pennies and a nickel. You kept dropping the nickel in until it stuck, where it didn't go down to the coin return. That required some patience, but when the nickel finally "stuck", you then gently put in one of the pennies. Most of the time, both the penny and nickel would come out the coin return, but if the stars aligned correctly, both coins would stick. Then you took the SECOND penny, and shoved it in the coin slot as hard as you could. I would say, 9 of 10 times time that would give you credit, and the nickel and one penny would come back to you through the coin machine. So you got to play for one cent. Good times. Hey I was a kid...don't judge me.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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