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The story
The question “Have you ever hit a 10,000-coin payout on a slot machine?” set off a wave of war stories on 5ch’s Nandemo Jikkyo (Anything Goes) board. Old-guard “4th-generation” machine names like Shodai Kamisama (The Original God), Yoshimune, and Gekka Rainei came up again and again, but plenty of posts got shot down as “uso-matsu” (an obvious internet exaggeration) once commenters started citing hard numbers — “1-game chains only go up to 5 in a row,” or “with Golgo’s net gain of 2.8 coins per spin, hitting 30,000 is theoretically a stretch.” Meanwhile, players on current-gen “sumasuro” (smart-slot) machines chimed in that even after clearing the bonus zone, 2,400 coins is about the ceiling — leading to plenty of old-school and modern players talking right past each other.
What people said
It's kind of creepy that you kept a screenshot from a machine that old
Get some new memories, man
Pretty much everyone who played 4.5-gen machines hit 10,000 coins at least once
Do you like Dai-Hanjou Honpo? (a slot machine title)
Fake story 🤥 — what's the point of 4.5-gen machines then
Yoshimune's 1-game chain caps out at 5 in a row, you noob liar
Even if you trigger something like an 8-in-a-row Tawara bonus on top of that, it only releases one payout at a time, so there's no way you're getting 15 in a row
Anyone with a trip ID ending in 'd' is full of it
Yoshimune's 1-game chain stops at around 4 or 5 in a row, doesn't it
After that you just have to keep landing fresh chains over and over
This is basically a lie
When I hit 10,000 coins on SBJ, everyone was yelling 'stock time!' and I nearly wet myself
I bet that's given some people actual heart attacks
I've been playing since Hyakkei, and every single one of these seems to hit a limiter right around 8,000 coins and just stop
6th-gen, impressive 👏
My best was also 8,000 coins, but on the 5th-gen Happy machine
Sounds like it can happen on the Juuou (Beast King) smart-slot version, so there's your rematch
Fake story
Net gain is 2.8 coins per spin. Even playing flat-out from the moment a store opens at 9am without ever leaving your seat all day, you'd just barely scrape to that number
Haha I get it
That era had a lot of sketchy customers around
I used to hide my cash in my shoes on the way home lol
Are the people talking about 4th-gen Aladdin machines all pushing 60?
I'm just a 40-year-old guy this year
What era are you living in where 10,000 coins is rare?
These days 19,000 coins happens all the time
Same age as you, but
how old were you when you started playing this stuff
Back then everyone started playing around age 16
A Sado assault run, huh (a bonus feature)
Impressive
With Bigdori, clearing the top-tier bonus chance basically locks in 5,000-8,000 coins
That thing is seriously insane
Gekka-Rainei old-timer guy: 'I lost my virginity at a soapland thanks to Monster Hunter winnings'
You're an old-timer for Gekka too, you know
Sounds like you've got a 4th-gen inferiority complex, huh lol
47 Still-Kicking Anonymous [] 2026/08/31(Mon) 22:14:28.12 ID:7flpiPqW0
My first 10,000-coin hit was on Gekka Rainei
73 Still-Kicking Anonymous [] 2026/08/31(Mon) 22:27:53.57 ID:7flpiPqW0
The 4th-gen old-timers are exaggerating their stories
98 Still-Kicking Anonymous [] 2026/08/31(Mon) 22:54:58.86 ID:7flpiPqW0
Old-timer-who-exaggerates-his-4th-gen-stories guy: 'I bought a condo with my Yoshimune winnings'
Well, a Complete bonus is basically impossible unless the machine has adjustable settings
The guys talking about stores resetting/wiping out stock machines are usually the real deal
Gekka Rainei old-timer's getting all worked up 🌱 (emoji riff on '草' = 'lol')
That's me
I think that machine was probably just broken
So you were real
I thought it was just an urban legend at first
Wasn't that just a rigged/backdoor setting?
Background and Key Points of This Debate
Pachislot machines are categorized by “generations,” each defined by a different regulatory framework, and these regulations have dramatically reshaped how payouts behave over time. Before 2004, in the 4th-generation era, technical ceilings were loose, and it was genuinely possible to walk away with tens of thousands of coins in a single session. When regulations tightened that same year, the 5th generation introduced caps on net payout differentials that reined in big wins, and those limits were tightened further with the 6th generation in 2018 and again with “smart-slot” machines starting in 2022. Given this regulatory history, claims from current-gen players that “2,400 coins is about the ceiling” aren’t exaggeration — they’re close to the literal spec limit. Likewise, the technical pushback seen in the thread, like “1-game chains cap out at 5 in a row,” is grounded in each machine’s actual real-world performance, not just nitpicking for its own sake. In other words, the real friction in this thread isn’t simply a shouting match over whether old-timers’ stories are exaggerated — it’s that regulatory changes have quietly redefined just how hard it is to achieve what people mean when they say “10,000 coins.”
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo board) thread “Have you ever hit 10,000 coins on a slot machine?“
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