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FinnProtoyeen t1_j01xgi0 wrote

Reply to comment by AndarianDequer in Infinite lives: the company saving old arcade machines by diacewrb

I think that's pretty much the purpose of arcade cabinets, they were designed to be fun enough for people to want to play it, but also to be so hard it kicks you off the cabinet so you either spend your quarters to play again or to let someone else play and spend their quarters. It wouldn't make an arcade money if some kid hogged a machine for hours off of one quarter

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DetroitLarry t1_j02v9oj wrote

Arcade operators must have hated that one deaf, dumb, and blind kid.

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jeepster2982 t1_j036th9 wrote

This. If you look at sales materials for old pinball and arcade machines they explicitly talk about revenue generation and returns on investments.

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