Free Play vs adding credits

[Monkeyboypaul]

I keep all my games on Free Play, so I never insert coins or manually add credits.

Just playing about with TRON and I accidentally pressed the service button inside the door - adding a credit, triggering a new sound effect.... confusing the **** out of myself as I'd never heard this sound before!

Is it just me or should I be playing with money so I don't miss these hidden [to me] gems?? (spoiler - I can't be ****d maintaining the coin mechs!)

 

[Mfresh]

No, it's just you!

 

[cmrl9]

Nope, unless you want to fit a cashless card system, you could charge yourself an extra 2% to use

 

[Monkeyboypaul]

No, it's just you!

Funnily enough, I’m not in the slightest bit surprised

 

[HomerRamone]

Iirc Centaur laughs at you if it's 20p a play and you put 10p in

 

[Moonraker]

Many games have the service credit setting to save the engineer rummaging around to find the right coinage. Doesn't necessarily mean that inserting coins will make the same noise!

 

[stevebm1]

lot's of machines do make a different sound to gameplay when a coin is inserted,it's normal it's to let you know the credit or part credit has been accepted

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

My Spiderman is at my sons house
There is not coin mech, but with his 6yo son around, there is usually cash in the coin-box

 

[wilbers]

My Spiderman is at my sons house
There is not coin mech, but with his 6yo son around, there is usually cash in the coin-box

Well, with a 6 year old making it pay to play would be a mechanism to ration usage for awhile until they cottoned on that free play is a possible option.

 

[Gonzo]

I find that if I play with credits I'm less likely to restart the game in the event of a crap first two balls.

It was precisely this which got me my highest score on TOM with an epic last ball.

 

[Paul]

I play with cash.
Why?
Pays for new rubbers/coils etc. Lessens the blow

 

[Epotech]

Many games have the service credit setting to save the engineer rummaging around to find the right coinage. Doesn't necessarily mean that inserting coins will make the same noise!

It doesn't add to the cash audits.

 

[Jay Walker]

Once the audio side was established, solid-state games often have an audio effect for inserting coins and adding credits, though for a while Williams games continued to use the knocker (or bell for games like Black Knight) whenever a credit was added.

Using Free Play can also miss out on some effects called on by pressing the Start button with no credits. High Speed makes a churning starter motor sound, somehow with no prospect of success. Road Kings produces the effect of kicking over a motorcycle engine. And many games with speech mock those pressing Start with no credits, e.g. "No Way! Give Me Your Money!" or "Aren't You Forgetting Something?"

I don't know a great deal about these 'easter eggs' hidden in the software of System 11/Wpc games, but as I recall some of them include the start button in the sequence required to reveal.