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This brings back a vague memory of smacking the side of a pinball machine just right and getting a free game. I bet it was the same concept.
by chasd00 2y ago
This brings back a vague memory of smacking the side of a pinball machine just right and getting a free game. I bet it was the same concept.
- devmor 2y agoYou were likely causing the spring-loaded mechanism that detects a coin insertion to make physical contact.
- wgrover 2y agoYup - the first few minutes of one of Technology Connections' videos on electromechanical pinball machines shows this mechanism in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo
- intothemild 2y agoI imagine (with zero research) that the mechanism for adding credit would be the coin goes through a slot, and either itself completed a circuit, or the coin as it travels moves some lever to complete a circuit. So I imagine if you hit the machine just right, you'd also move that lever.
- candlemas 2y agoJust like The Fonz.
- DonHopkins 2y agoHenry Winkler is actually just as cool as the character he played!
- Slava_Propanei 2y ago[dead]