This probably alfalfa outside the golden age range, but boy oh boy, this must’ve sucked in a shed load of coins.
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I will do my best to guide you, when/if we come out of this will be happy to get over and go pinball hunting. Here is an Australian Forum https://www.aussiearcade.com/ which will give you plenty to gloss over, it is where I cut my teeth.
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Please tell ?
Back to the phone scams . My Dad the frugile man he was put a phone lock on to keep the phone bills down. It went in the rotary dialler so you couldn’t dial. However what we realised through trial and error or the teenage underground was if you picked up the receiver and tapped the receiver buttons for each number as in Morse code style you got your phone call. So 1 was 1 tap etc 0 was ten. Took a bit of doing though. Dad could never figure out why the bills didn’t go down. Couldn’t of been us as the phone was locked
Frugal I meant. As for letting somebody beat your home pinball high score it’s just not allowed. I know on the Judge Dredd pinball you can set how many balls you want ( yeh I know ) so mine is set at 3. If someone else’s name goes up then I’ll be very tempted to change it to 5 until my name goes back and all is good again. Im a bad person I know.
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I found a glitch in Atari Combat where you could hyper space to another part of the screen if you positioned your tank against the exterior wall.
Great for getting out of the line of fire and then having a surprise shot at your opponent.
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The constant fire from me and my brother on the jet and old timey airplane games on Combat, (you never took your finger off the button, what would be the point? A stray was as likely to hit as a a direct shot) must have driven my parents mad.
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Anyone play Crazy Climber?
A 1980 discovery in the quieter fish n chip shop in town.
Anyway, we got so addicted we’d ride around scoping houses for empty soft drink bottles stored outside - that we could come back at night and pinch for the 20 cent refunds.
And who used to do the Space Lab Shot on the original Space Invaders?
Anybody do the stage 1 Donkey Kong cheat? Go up the first ladder then nudge to the right about 1mm and jump off to the right side of screen. Mario would then drop down and appear at the top of the screen. Level complete. You had to be really accurate.
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Lol.
I lost about twenty bucks trying to do it and then saw the next guy do it first try, does that count?
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Yep. Didn’t work on all machines though…
Did you know the other one - if Mario was on a ladder (first screen) with just the very tip of his hand projecting over the top, a barrel would never come down on him no matter how long he waited there… again, not on all machines…
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Anyone mentioned Wonderboy? Bubble Bobble? Both legendary.
Just realised, they may have been post '82.
Edit: yeah, sorry, both 1986. Same as Xain’d Sleena.
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I did and loved it although the furthest I ever reached was to the 4th level.
Here is video I did of me playing my Firepower back in 2007, was doing a video to show the finished restore job on another forum and managed multi ball. Added some Sigue Sigue Sputnik music at the time, I should have just left the pinball sounds as they are awesome, but the song fits!
Check out my mad flipper skills 
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Heres another of a pinball/arcade meet in the garage 2010, check out the boys getting into Donkey Kong and getting all technical.
Me playing PinBot
That is clearly not legit. Not one hip bump, or attempted death save. And no sign of a TILT, TILT TILT, and trying to gauge the sensitivity of the machine.
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Oooh, Twilight Zone…very nice.
(I can’t quite work out a bunch of them…)
Left to right 2nd pic
Wizard of OZ (out of picture) JJP
The Hobbit JJP
Twilight Zone Bally/Williams
Indiana Jones Bally/Williams
RoadShow Bally/Williams
STTNG Bally/Williams
Judge Dreed Bally/Williams
Popeye Bally/Williams
These are all wide body pins
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The magnet on Twilight Zone drove me nuts.