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Originally Posted by bluepilot
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.
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The game companies soon got wise to that and a counter-measure was developed.
Basically a little circuit that detected (via a short aerial) the static discharges and prevented credits being racked up.
Some of us actually wired it to the reset circuitry of the game board, which was a no-no according to company policy.
One of the better parts of the job was getting out of the factory to fit these counter-measures on-site, rather than wait for the machines to come back in for service or rotation.
Terry