Once a staple of grocery stores and malls, coin-operated kiddie rides have slowly disappeared due to safety concerns, ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on February 1, 2008, and has been updated. It was excerpted from our Coin-Operated Laundry start-up guide, available from Entrepreneur Bookstore.

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coin-operated car ride outside of store - Marieappert/Getty Images Throughout the mid-to-late 20th century, a trip to the grocery ...

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 ...

Potential investors poured into the convention of the National Institute of Dry-cleaning two years ago, clamoring to find out about a new “wonder business” that was virtually guaranteed to coin ...

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, ...

I hadn’t seen a coin-operated toilet in more than 50 years, until I recently visited the library in downtown Wichita. They’re Baaack. In an effort to fight vandalism and misconduct, two of the three ...

Morphy Auctions, the Denver-based auction house, will host a three-day auction May 4-6 featuring more than 2,100 19th-century and early 20th-century antique coin-operated arcade, music, gambling, ...