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Quoted from drsfmd:I can't remember which game it was, but at one point a game passed through my collection where the match unit stepped up by 1 just as you say, but the numbers weren't in order-- essentially making it "random"
The numbers are not in order. The schematic shows the order.
We used to think there was a sensor in the door that gave a match when detecting that we'd moved away from the game, to draw us back.
Quoted from drsfmd:I can't remember which game it was, but at one point a game passed through my collection where the match unit stepped up by 1 just as you say, but the numbers weren't in order-- essentially making it "random". If you were to keep track of it for 10 games, you could figure out the order, as the non-sequential series would repeat. I don't know how common that was, or if it was something changed by an operator, but I thought it was near.
Here is the order for a Wms 1964 game (Heat Wave): 0 4 9 5 2 8 3 7 1 6
Seems like it would be the same for all Wms of the era. Doesn't seem like there'd be any reason to keep reinventing a new order for new titles.
I don't want no cheatin' now!!
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