Remember when gaming only cost a quarter?

You could feel it physically but you didn't own it for that price though

>>714586701 (OP)
for 60 seconds of gametime.

you dumb boomers sure got fleeced

>>714586991
if you were ass at the game then sure, alphie

>>714587090
paypig cope

I hate modern arcades so much. White fluorescent lights, bright LEDs, all the games are just big screens of mobile games that cost a dollar each. Suffering.

>>714587090
wrong. arcade devs quickly realized the kids were getting too good at the games so introduced the timer.

>>714586701 (OP)
Remember when money was made and backed by real tangebile assets and not this fiat scam?

>>714586701 (OP)
Bolo

>>714588097
How old are you? 90?

>>714588097
No, but do explain it though.

>>714586701 (OP)
The company that owns that quarter has shut down. Your quarter is now invalid

>>714588097
You know damn well that the price of Gold fluctuates and in no way provides the stability needed for a healthy economy. We moved away from it for a reason. It belongs in the ground

>pay 25 cents for an experience
>pay $80 for a liscence that can be revoked at any time.
Which way /v/?

Everything was magically better when I was a kid. It's not that I was more ignorant of the harsh reality, everything was just better. I didn't have to work or pay rent or buy groceries, food just magically appeared in the pantry. Why don't we just invent a magical rewind time to when I was a kid and make it stay that way forever machine? Whine, whine, whine.

>pirates your arcade

>>714586701 (OP)
No. I was a collection of amino acids and nucleic acids yet to be assembled as a sperm cell in my Dad's balls.

>>714591505
I only play open-source games

Anyone got any recent 1CCs?

>>714586991
I'll never forget the day I 1CC Shinobi. Thirty minutes, two cokes and one quarter. Good times.

>>714591643
kek this
2025 is literally THE GOLDEN AGE of humanity
and it's gonna just keep getting better

>>714586701 (OP)
That was a quarter for a few minutes or less of gameplay until you got good. It was a good value if you were serious about mastering the games, but for most kids, you were wasting your parents' money on an empty experience. You were more likely to beat a home video game.

>>714586701 (OP)
that'd be like $5 today

>>714594639
Its closer to $30.

Gimme a game

>go to Putt Putt Super Saturday
>get 40 tokens before lunch (slice of pizza and a coke), 40 tokens after
>burn 40 tokens in like half an hour, forced to play minigolf

>>714594886
The ____

>>714586701 (OP)
The goold ol'd days.
Lol.

>>714594854