Talk:Medal game

Opening heading
Does anybody know if it would actually be illegal to offer a prize or money for the medals? Is it illegal or is it just not done? Mwv2 (talk) 05:11, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

alright, I have no clue on the proper format for citing, and I really don't have much to cite other than the japanese wikipedia page. I wrote this on a mix of reading that and from personal experience. However I do believe most of what I wrote (hopefully all!) is backed up on the Japanese wikipedia. 15:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

I read through the Japanese wiki site and was surprised to learn that you are right in that the medals cannot be exchanged for anything seemingly of value. however, I have seen arcades exchanging the medals for various prizes here in Japan and given that this tidbit is located in the "history" section on the Japanese website, it may not be referring to modern conventions.

However, you've misread part of the japanese website: there it says that the exchange rate for yen to medals ranges from 50 to 300 medals per 1 thousand yen, but that purchasing medals in bulk (About 50-100 American dollars worth) results in a discount rate. Your translation makes it seem as though there are people out there paying 100 dollars per single coin somewhere in Japan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.220.17.155 (talk) 13:46, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Pusher type
With the pusher type, the medals are frequently the coins inserted themselves; this is a bit confusing in the article. I had intended, some years ago, to make an article about penny falls (as these are often called; I've created a redirect for Penny Falls to this section) but found surprisingly little information on their invention and so on, even after contacting the main amusement machine manufacturers and distributors. I wonder if we can somehow distinguish better between machines where the coins/medals are separated from the prizes and those where they are the same thing.

In many countries it's not necessary to exchange coins for medals (tokens), but then, that is probably beyond the scope of this article which is about medal games. Si Trew (talk) 08:22, 28 March 2016 (UTC)