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Old 20th May 2008, 09:01 AM   #129 (permalink)
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That was when the arcade offered you much better games than you had at home, and it was only 25 cents per play. Although, there were expensive games like Dragon's Lair that cost 50 cents.
I remember those days.. in Aus, it was 20c a game. I flatly refused to play Dragon's Lair, 'cos although the LaserDisc graphics technology was "awesome" for the day, I couldn't justify spending $1 a pop when that'd get me five games of Battlezone, or Asteroids, or Defender, or Galaga, or...

Of course, Galaxy Force II was outrageous at $2 a game when it came out. But somehow, the motorised cockpit made that one justifiable...
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