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All the friends who have experienced the game hall should have done this: buy game coins in the owner and use them in the West.

Both sides of the game coins are printed with the words "Chinese and Western", and no matter the size or appearance are almost the same, just a little chromatic aberration.

It is also strange to say that many game hall coins are specially customized, and the name of the organic hall is printed on the coins. But even if the appearance is different, the weight and size are almost the same, and they are still used in other game halls.

As long as you have money on your body, you can use it in any game hall.

Of course, there are also some game coins that are invisible to the naked eye. When we get it to other game halls, whether we can play it or not depends on luck:

If you are lucky, you will succeed directly.

If you are unlucky, you will be thrown in and out.

If you are unlucky, you will eat money directly.

At that time, the game currency was quite chaotic, and the tokens of almost every game hall may have been mixed with foreign currencies, and even the boss could not tell them out.

So everyone will make a mistake, take it out and sell it the same, so there is often a situation in which players are paid to find their boss.

Although the coin dispensers at that time were all domestic bargains, and the coin size could be adjusted freely, it was difficult to debug because of the inclusion of too many coins from different places.

I remember that at that time, there was a guy who was in the door and window business, which was a hundred meters in front of the game hall. In order to save money, he took the game coin back to measure it, including its weight and size, and then polished a lot of it through the machine at home.

After being found by the owner of the game hall, the two families almost got into a fight.

It is estimated that today's players are curious, why does the game hall have to buy tokens? Can't we just use coins?

We often see in film and television works and animation that foreign players basically directly use local coins.

But this kind of operation won't work in the 1990s!

The value of 1 yuan coins far exceeded the value of tokens on our side of the game at that time. One yuan could buy three or four coins, while in the later period it was six or eight.

The coins we often use, except for the "cent" units, are ten cents, two cents, fifty cents and one piece.

The prices of these coins are completely different from those of tokens. If the machine allows fifty cents coins, it feels a little expensive, and it is estimated that business will also be affected.

It was true that there were one dollar and two coins in the earliest days, but then there were more airport halls and had to come down. )

I still remember that when I was in the game hall, I was surprised to hear that big cities directly used one yuan to put in coins.

At that time, there was indeed a machine for mixing tokens and RMB. It's just that you can't usually see it in villages and towns.

To prevent theft, put an end to gambling game hall players are not good men and women! When there is no money, you can think of anything.

It is estimated that every game hall has had the experience of being broken into the chassis. If you change all those tokens into one-dollar coins, you will earn hundreds of dollars for this pry.

Even tokens make players so crazy. If it is a real coin of real gold and silver, then the owner of the game hall will not live in peace for a day, and keep watch on the chassis at any time so as not to be stolen.

There are many gambling machines in the game hall, such as fruit machines, coin refund machines and horse racing machines, which are defined as entertainment equipment in the game hall. But anyone who knows it knows that this thing is the main source of income for all machine halls.

The nature of using tokens and coins is completely different. Tokens are entertaining and coins are gambling. Once the use of coins is banned by the relevant departments every minute. Gambling machine = refundable currency + cash reward game machine

Of course, only the friends who often hang out in the game hall know that you can get a refund at the original price after winning the game coin.

Many years later, the price of game coins has risen to one yuan each, why still use tokens? Actually, it's the same reason. The nature of the video game city is always entertainment and must not be linked to gambling.

Now, slightly larger video game cities are membership system, must recharge how much money to buy game coins to play, there is no longer the kind of early years that can be played with a few dollars to buy money close to the people operation.

After dealing with members, buy dozens of them at once, players will always find ways to squander them all, and they can't take them home! As a result, the profitability of the video game city has greatly increased.

Now we always feel a little uncomfortable when we come to a large game hall. I feel too troublesome to buy coins. After buying coins, I find that I don't have anything to play with myself. I think it doesn't matter if I buy it anyway, and I feel a little wasteful after I have spent it.

Can no longer find the feeling of the game hall at that time, although there is no money, but every game coin is regarded as a treasure, and its value must be brought into full play.

Times have changed, and the arcade hall that was popular in the streets and alleys has long disappeared.

Only those who have experienced that era still vaguely remember the former glory of the arcade.

This article comes from the official Wechat account: arcade feelings (ID:JJQH66), author: our arcade era

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