TL;DR: Hardware engineer MrYeester demonstrates how to convert a PC into a coin-activated gaming rig by replacing the power button with a coin acceptor that detects specific coins to trigger startup.

EXCLUSIVE: Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated is developing He Never Dies, a new horror film to be written by David Yarovesky (Locked, Brightburn), who will also direct. In He Never Dies, the man they ...

No one seems to know for certain why the city adopted a licensing requirement for coin-operated amusement devices back in the 1930s. Some businesses routinely license the devices ...

The noise is unmistakable, though it’s heard at fewer and fewer casinos these days. Clank-clank-clank-clank-clank. That’s the sound of money — metal coins hitting a metal tray — signifying slot or ...

WTF?! Remember the days of inserting a quarter (or several) to play a few minutes of an arcade game? A YouTube channel took on the challenge of moving this transactional system to a gaming PC, ...

Circus Circus has expanded on its status as the only Strip casino still offering coin-operated slot machines by installing $5 coin machines to go alongside its $1 machines. The slots are a throwback ...

Longtime hacker [Peter Jansen] was so impressed with a piece in The Onion from last year that he decided to build this coin-operated Texas Instruments graphing calculator console on a whim (video ...

Dublin, Jan. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Coin-Operated Laundry Machines Market - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2021-2031" has been added to ...