Rob,

 RM> That might sound like winning a free game but, what it involved
 RM> was running the machine out of free games. Most machines could
 RM> only rack up 15 free games, and then if you won one more, it
 RM> made a loud 'CLACK' sound, and the whole place would know that
 RM> you had 'Beat the Machine'.

  I remember when you beat the high score, you got 3 free games, but
they usually had a max of 5 or 10 games to win. You tried to TILT it
just before it rolled over from 999,990 (for the games that had that
as the high water mark). Now, in some of the games, it takes well over
a million just to get 1 replay.

 RM> At that point, you usually grabbed some kid and told him he had
 RM> 15 free games to play and walked away..

  I did that myself...especially when I had to get to my next class
in college...although I enjoyed the Student Union Gameroom more. <G>

 RM> It drove the owners nuts because you can imagine the how much
 RM> time you had tied up that machine on just one lousy quarter..

  A former Sysop (who passed away several years ago) got to where
he could beat the original Pac-Man video game multiple times on just
one quarter.

Daryl

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