Coin Pusher 365 Review – Bring the Arcade Home

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When I was in my younger days, I spent a lot of time at the arcade playing classic quarter slurpers like Gauntlet and Mortal Kombat. As I got older, I now enjoy taking my kids to places like Dave and Busters to spend way too much money to earn tickets for really crappy prizes. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. But my absolute favorite among those ticket games was always the Coin Pusher (sorry Skeeball, you’re #2). There was just something so addictive about dropping coins down a chute to cause a cascade of falling metal.

Back in the fall of 2022, I recall seeing a Kickstarter campaign for a machine called the Coin Pusher 365 from a new company called Acradro. My first thought was “I don’t need that…” However, that thought was quickly replaced with, “hrm, maybe I do” :D. Fast forward to this summer and the Coin Pusher 365 has landed on my doorstep. While this isn’t like the typical tabletop games we cover here on BGQ, I consider it tabletop game adjacent, so we are going forward anyway. If you’ve got a game room at home with a ROM machine, Pinball machine, dome hockey, or the like, this definitely may be right up your alley.

If you’ve never played a coin pusher game, well you are definitely missing out. It’s one of the simple joys in life. The main crux of the game is that there is a shelf with a pile of coins on it, and behind that, a wall that slides back and forth. As you drop tokens down the slots they fall into the machine. The goal is to time things right so that they fall in the right spots in front of the pushing wall. Manage that, and it will push the coins forward, eventually dropping some off the front ledge, earning you tickets.

The Coin Pusher 365 works just like that, yet in a consumer-grade machine.