Coin-op Favorites and Arcade Memories

Coins occasionally get stuck in the coin slots of arcade games. Don't know much about the mechanism, but sometimes there would be a few of them stuck in there, yet they didn't block the slot.

Pushing the 'reject' button sometimes resulted in a coin falling into the return trap *or* dropping into the machine and giving the lucky button-pusher a credit.

One time on a Donkey Kong machine I pressed the coin-reject button and

bloop

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pressed it again...

bloop

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and kept pressing until it stopped blooping :

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That was the first time that I saw The Pie Board (AKA Pie Factory or Cement Factory), the 7th screen in the US arcade version.
The contents of the pans have been referred to as sand, cement, or even coal but it looked like pie to us.


Link to full size pic

This board was left out of most console ports of DK, including the NES. I hadn't seen this in years and recently set myself the task of reaching it. In that I was successful, but failed to complete the board. Next time...