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[PA Comic] Monday, July 1, 2013 - Arcadia
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There is something about the way Turtles is bolded and italicized that kills me.
There was this place near my house as a kid called Mr. Arcade. All the games were set on freeplay, and it was like, a ten dollar entry fee. The games were ok, there were a few good ones in there. My favorite was House of the Dead, because I could go all Jon Woo akimbo pistols.
Also, this is a pretty literal comic. A Penny Arcade comic about arcades. I like it.
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This is one of my favorite comics of all time, because of this case:
You will be tempted to set these machines to "free play" - do not do this.
Get yourself some custom tokens made - they're expensive, sure, but they are awesome and they will be unique to your arcade, and they make awesome gifts. Put these tokens in a big bucket in the middle of the arcade.
Buy some token mechanisms from an arcade parts supplier. At this point you are shaking your head because that sounds like some sort of crazy nerd technical wizard activity, but you should stop because it's not. The old mechanisms are held on by a couple of screws. Unscrew them; slide the old mechanism out; slide the new mechanism in; replace the screws.
Why should you do this? Because dropping a token into an arcade machine is where all the magic is. Even when they're free and you have a huge bucket of them. Also, Gauntlet on freeplay sucks ass - why play carefully when you can have unlimited health? Much better to give yourselves a stack of 8 tokens. Much better to feel that rush, fumble with that coin; sure you can always go to the bucket and get more tokens, but you have 15 seconds before the game resets - RUN MOTHERFUCKER, RUN!
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