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Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That was by design, actually. A lot of the old arcade games were like that.

It was to get people to either quit after a bit of playing so a new person could step in and give the machine money, or have the person who lost at the hard level put more money in.

Otherwise at just a quarter the machines become unprofitable. Just capitalism things.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

are new arcade games better at this?

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Honestly not sure. Haven’t been to an arcade in years.

I should go to one again.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean sure, but played my fair share off arcades back in the day and some would eat your quarters faster than others and games too difficult like this one didn’t attract much attention even if they were flashy one because we kids were broke AF.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hey, I never said it was a good design lol