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bradlys
7mo ago
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As if arcade games weren’t money hungry and painfully punishing purely to get more quarters out of children.
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cwmoore
7mo ago
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I couldn't get a quarter out of my dad as a kid. Who's fault is the parents?
vibrio
7mo ago
If I mowed 2 acres of lawn dad would give me a stack of quarters. It didn’t take me long to realize that a fraction of that mowing time spent playing Defender would consume those quarters. I still loved playing it, but valuable perspective.
pupppet
7mo ago
Arcades got you out of the house, they had a communal aspect to them, you played games together. Those quarters were well spent!
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