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[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

"video games" were mechanical, and you interacted with targets by manipulating a metal spherical pixel using, hand eye coordination, timing and physics. You were rewarded with multiple "pixels" if you were good enough.

They cost 20c to play and you only got 3 lives.

[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

20 cents!? By the time inflation hit, it cost us a whole quarter!

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

no such thing as a quarter in Oz. So 20c. But I remember watching the 20c games go from that to 40c, 50c and then $1. For games like KISS, and Playboy none the less! (Other 70's style pinnies never got passed 50c because they were not popular enough, and newer ones were shadowing them in the 80's.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago
[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's not the same...

[-] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Arcade games? I have seen Arcade machines but never played.

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