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0 pointsbradlys4mo ago0 comments

As if arcade games weren’t money hungry and painfully punishing purely to get more quarters out of children.

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Arcades got you out of the house, they had a communal aspect to them, you played games together. Those quarters were well spent!

cwmoore4mo ago

I couldn't get a quarter out of my dad as a kid. Who's fault is the parents?

vibrio4mo 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.

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