Alex Perez

Animal lover, video game enthusiast, and Los Angeles Charger fanatic.

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@ABeerAndAGame

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@TommyWiseau Is my Order #25511 ever going to process and ship? It's been processing since May 19, 2020.

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@ABeerAndAGame Jesus what a talent

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@ABeerAndAGame Damn, that's a good looking pup

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@OrangeGrove55 I think the space in between the Disneyland Opera House and Space Mountain (where Edison Square was once supposed to be) is a perfect little area for an Oswald dark ride. If WDW has Figment, Oswald should be DL exclusive, with a ride all his own.

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

Is that you @PFTCommenter on the left?

[MUG's strongest deergirl 🍻 🔜 Toronto Pride, AC @PyrrhaF6]

The person who painted the Star Wars Vending Machine in Mt. Washington should be sent to Super Hell

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@ABeerAndAGame We share an 11% taste in top 100 games.

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@Stealth40k Love seeing StarFox in the top 10!

[BiffBifford™ 🇺🇸 @TBifford]

🔥MYSTERY SOLVED🔥
For years, people found old red-painted quarters in change jars and wondered what they were.

The answer turns out to be purely practical and very much of its time. In the arcade era of the 1980s and early 1990s, attendants kept a small supply of quarters deliberately painted red (often with nail polish). When a customer’s coin failed to register because of a jammed or temperamental slot, the attendant would drop in one of these marked coins to test the mechanism. If the game credited properly, the player got to continue; if not, the machine was taken offline for repair.

The red paint made the coins easy to spot and remove during the weekly cash count so they weren’t recorded as revenue. They were simply tools of the trade — “shills” or house coins — reused again and again.

It’s a small but telling detail of how arcades actually operated before tokens and electronic payment systems took over. Those painted quarters are now little artifacts of a physical, hands-on entertainment culture that has largely disappeared.

❓Did you ever come across one of these red quarters and wonder about its story?

[DrinkABeer&PlayAGame @ABeerAndAGame]

Check out our Ranking of every Puppet Combo & Torture Star Game, over 40 games reviewed. Link below!

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

Nope

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Give a point to the “mountains are better than the beach” people

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Got it!

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@PFTCommenter @BarstoolBigCat I’m about to pick up Pardon My Book at my local Target. IF I happen to see one of you guys out in the wild AND I also happen to have the book with me, can I get a free signing? I live in SoCal so chances are low anyways!

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@jerseymikes CHICKEN SALAD

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@JackKennedy Kill me now. Great hair though Kenjac.

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@BuffNerd You and me both!

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

quack quack quack

[Vintage NFL @VintageFB]

Who has the best retro logo?

[Alex Perez @AlexPerez83]

@Zee_is_mee_ I need to up my game to streamer. I'm currently just a drinker/watcher of peeps I love.

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@Zee_is_mee_ LOSERS

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@Zee_is_mee_ Not streaming, but trying to stay awake for an early morning flight to Memphis out of San Diego. Any luck?