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The Loafer
March 2, 2009, 11:51am Report to Moderator

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Just read this on byoac...  Anyone else have similar funny stories?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=89842.0
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had to check the pictures of the cab.  might have been my stash from my old machine.  nope.....
  
   i have found a couple different things in machines.  my fav of course is old money.  SBA dollars are a great find and i had a couple.  
   found a small baggie of pot.  lots of mice and rat poo if that counts and once a dry up little mouse.
   some hard thick plastic coin slot covers with different price listings.  a stack of manuals for other machines and none for the machine that they were in.
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Quoted from The Loafer
Just read this on byoac...  Anyone else have similar funny stories?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=89842.0


A few things actually... quarters are always laying around in a cab. I once found a good 5 bucks worth in a Roadblasters cockpit. Other notables:

- cheap white Ray-Ban knock-off sunglasses in a NARC I got from Gory
- A couple of 80s porn mags in a pin
- rat mess in a Robotron
- old fruit in a Stern vid cab (a repair guy probably couldn't find the garbage can during his break in 1983)
- stuffed bear in a Bally Mystic
- old pieces of paper with high scores and names on it inside some pins I get from the 70's and 80's


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-Lots of nuts and bolts that don't belong anywhere on the machine
-Mouse poo
-A soldering iron stand


Diner (prototype)

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The petrfied remains of a Kentucky Fried Chicken lunch in a Magic Worm cab... mmmm.  The usual mess, no dope or big bills though.... darn.


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Quoted from Hippochrome
-Lots of nuts and bolts that don't belong anywhere on the machine



Yeah... that, old burnt fuses, old cracked rubber rings, burnt bulbs and dirt. Pretty standard.


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Oh yeah... I did find this in a pin I got from a Aljo...




... just kidding... I never bought a pin from Aljo.


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Found about $30 worth of quarters in a cab I paid $50 for.. that was nice

Also found a ToM shooter rod in my Strange Science cab    gave that to Monkeybug..


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I've never found anything super interesting in a game I've bought. I've found NOS plastics, and other goodies, but nothing out of the ordinary. I almost found an NOS plastic set for a 1977 Bally Lost World. The game wasn't working and he was asking pretty close to market for it (meaning a fully working game). I looked inside to see if it was hacked. Doh! Inside was a nice NOS plastic set. The guy remained firm on his price and I left empty handed.

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I know that someone else will eventually find a screwdriver bit from my swiss army knife that fell out while I was working on a machine and could never find it again!


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Quoted from Sparky
Oh yeah... I did find this in a pin I got from a Aljo...




... just kidding... I never bought a pin from Aljo.


LoL!




                                                                       
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oh yea.  like others loads of quarters.   a few slugs as well.
   but on one of my machine i can't rember which.  i ended up with a few hundred very old tokens.  they are here somewhere.
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