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Were tilt sensors a damage prevention thing? I always assumed it was just an anti-cheat
by colejohnson66 5y ago
Were tilt sensors a damage prevention thing? I always assumed it was just an anti-cheat
- toast0 5y agoMost pinball machines have two tilt sensors, one is the regular one that, in modern incarnations, chides you for tilting and if you do it too much will end your current ball. There's a second, the slam tilt sensor that mostly detects kicking the coin door, etc, and reboots the machine (ending the whole game and maybe dropping any existing credits)
- spicybright 5y agoI'm wondering if it was just "vestigial" from whatever boards they were using. I imagine a pinball machine base overlaps a fair amount with it's coin mechanisms.
- JohnBooty 5y agoI'm just guessing... I suspect it was damage prevention, much more so than cheating. Cheating only affected the arcade owners if you were cheating on a busy machine, and somehow cheating well enough to actually extend your game. Longer games = less quarters. But, really, how many people were cheating at pinball well enough to extend their games? I think that would take some serious skill. I think most people banging the machines damaged the machines far more often than they extended their games. So I think it was mostly about that.