Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Keeping quarters around - what a pain. Do you expect your friends to pay, or are you supplying the quarters? Kids/family want to play and you're not around, but nobody has any quarters. You have a stash of quarters but your spouse/kids keep "steeling" them. Want to restart a game for whatever reason - bad start, interruption, etc. - quite easy when on FP. Free Play all the way all the time for me.
Also, what am I supposed to do with all the extra parts, tools, cleaning supplies, etc. that I keep in all of the coin boxes?
This is why I bought a few huge lots of old arcade tokens over the last couple years as they came up from time to time. I've got just under 2000 tokens now and I don't think I spent anywhere near $100 on them all. I even got lucky recently and found a Rowe BC-35 locally for under $20. The plan is coming together nicely, muah ha ha!!
As for storing extra parts, tools, cleaning supplies, and whatever else, I ran out of room in the cash boxes looooong ago. I've been using special organizing cases for each specific game's unique parts and for everything else, I bought an old single width, six door/space locker that I built a simple wooden enclosure for to put all the general pin parts, parts for my vids, cleaning supplies, tools, and all manner of things in their own designated locker. It really cleaned up my game room and it adds to the overall nostalgia of the room.
I don't mean to come off in a know-it-all kind of way, I've just been planning these things for a while and knew what I'd be needing and what would be cool to have. Then, when great deals came up on the items on that list, I snagged them.