In my opinion, what killed the arcade in America was not really the console by itself, but the greediness of the arcade manufacturers. They would deliberately design games to cause you to lose lives to easily at certain points to keep the coins flowing. The arcade businesses themselves loved this because the coins cost real money, so they were willing to pay more money for such games. It got to the point where you could spend so much money on arcades that you could have instead bought all the major consoles and most of the good games for them.
Pac Man was the perfect game in terms of difficulty and cost. You could play a game for a pretty long time, but everybody wanted to go for the perfect score (or at least the high score). But it didn't take all your tokens like some of the others.
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In my opinion, what killed the arcade in America was not really the console by itself, but the greediness of the arcade manufacturers. They would deliberately design games to cause you to lose lives to easily at certain points to keep the coins flowing. The arcade businesses themselves loved this because the coins cost real money, so they were willing to pay more money for such games. It got to the point where you could spend so much money on arcades that you could have instead bought all the major consoles and most of the good games for them.
Pac Man was the perfect game in terms of difficulty and cost. You could play a game for a pretty long time, but everybody wanted to go for the perfect score (or at least the high score). But it didn't take all your tokens like some of the others.
Theres some free memories. Those old games rocked, it would be cool to see some retro places like that in the USA.