Can't refund the credit but a lot of times of some newer games (DMD-era) if you hold the start button in it'll start a completely new games. You won't get any credits back, though. Works great for the free-play-establishments where all the people start 4-player games. Otherwise I just flip the switch. Nobody tends to care much but I could see where people would blow it out of proportion.

Arm up the back and forced out the door.

I have a free play arcade and we reset games pretty frequently, but of course we don't always catch it before a new player wants to start. Frankly, if a guest asked me ahead of time if they could reset a machine, I'd probably be ok with it. But if they just went ahead and reset a game without checking first, I'd be heading back to see who is screwing around with the games.

I like having a free play setup, but this is the main drawback.

What I hate about free play is the abandoned games with the ball in the shooter lane on games like Fireball Classic. The disk keeps spinning as long as a game is running and I don't want to replace that motor.

At least with newer games you can set it to auto-launch so within a few minutes the game will be over.

It's bad at expos, too, where games are on free play. I brought a Starship Troopers which allows up to 6 players, and saw a kid who didn't know what he was doing keep hitting start because he thought that's what it took to get the ball into the shooter lane. Needless to say, he added all 6 players.

I believe the option to restart with the start button only works starting on ball 2, you'd have to get through ball 1 on each player and at least get it to player 1 ball 2.

It's not just DMD games that have this reset feature, though. I know my Alien Poker has it... not sure about Gorgar. Special Force has it.

I always wondered why there isn't a option where you could set it to go back into attract mode after a set amount of time . I would love a seperate setting that would do that .

It is a problem.

Modern pinball can get overrun by civilians. They start 4-player games. Or two guys play each other on a 4-player game. Games always seem to be in a game even if nobody is playing one.

To help deal with this they have set all their autoplunger games to autoplunge after 20 seconds or so. Pretty good idea actually.

And to the op of course there's no way to get a refund. Just play em out I guess. When I've done it before I only play 1 player and just plunge player 2 because I cannot stand to play a multiplayer game with myself ever.

No operator, anywhere, would want to buy a pinball machine where any type of refund or redo is an option. There's no value added to an operator and it can only hurt them.

This one drives me nuts at expo's and at home. Stinks when you go up to play a game at expo and someone has started all 4 players lunches 1 or 2 balls then walks away. Same at home drives me nuts when none pinballer starts a game then just walks away. At home go behind people and lunch the balls till game over. Expo try to reset game with credit button on one's you can or just play out all the balls someone started.

You knows what grinds my gears... waiting behind people at an expo to play a game and they think it's ok to start another game when they are finished even though someone has been waiting. Happened to me at LAX this year, after a couple games had to step in with a.. do you mind if i get a game in? Not cool

Just set the game to auto-plunge after a certain amount of time. Accomplishes the same thing. Of course, this only works on games with an auto fire feature.