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>>1317+(OP)
This reminds me of exploits we used to do to arcade cabinets back in Sydney in the 80's and 90s. The school gas heaters used to have what we called "clickers", piezoelectric ignition devices you could remove from the heaters.

You then took that clicker to your local arcade, and clicked one of the corners of the CRT, that would send a shock through the system and add credits to your game. I believe this was because the CRT was grounded on the same ground lines that the mechanism for physically checking a coin had gone through the system.

Suffice to say, they caught onto this over time, and added some form of an alarm into it. But up until then... Those were truly the best times.

>>intoth+k4
This also worked in the USA. By the 1990s most arcades operated on proprietary tokens rather than coin currency. Many had skill-gambling machines that had sliding rows covered in tokens, that you would try to dislodge with your own tokens and keep what was displaced.

The "Jungle Jive" version of this would dispense tokens out the opposite side of the machine if the electric ignition of a cigarette lighter was used to lightly shock the metal intake slot. If you clicked it too much too quickly it would go into an alert mode. While this could be accomplished solo, the ideal MVP setup was a team of three: one scout to watch for employees, one to click, and one to collect.