My Nan and I would go into the arcades with no money, find 2p that someone had forgotten to collect from the push machine,
shove it back in to get a load more 2ps, and waste an entire afternoon making ever more 2ps rain down from the shelves, only to feed them all back into the machine until we had the same as when we started. Great fun.
Of course, now all the machines take 50ps, and weight the cash down with worthless prizes, making the whole thing shit.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 19:44, 1 reply)

They nail down the 'better' prizes too
so there is zero chance of getting them. Bastards. On the plus side, I have a good memory of being near one of these fiendish machines when the building suffered a power cut. The lights went out, there was silence for a few seconds, and then as one the honest people of Britain pounded the shit out of the now alarm-free machines, causing bronze and silver showers.
(searlichek, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 22:45, closed)