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Old 30th Sep 2017, 3:24 pm   #13
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Default Re: Old arcade games

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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware View Post
That's an emulator only. The code for the actual games would have to be found elsewhere.
There are plenty of ROM images available for download. A quick search with DuckDuckGo will find loads of them. It's amazing how small the images are. The entire program for things like Space Invaders fitted in a few kB.

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Originally Posted by G0HZU_JMR View Post
But when I was a student we discovered that if you forced/flicked a 2p coin backwards up through the coin reject slot
Someone I knew discovered that if you took the cover off a piezo-electric cigarette lighter and used it to generate sparks whilst held next to the game machine, the stray currents could be made to change the credit counter. The bar where I used to play those games had a separate games room so the landlord couldn't see what was going on. He could never work out how people could play the games all evening but there was never any money in them afterwards.
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