• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Except you didn’t have to buy your own arcade machine before you started shoveling quarters into it.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, back in my day the games came on a cassette tape. Sometimes the tapes got tangled up or broke, but when you bought it, you owned it.

      Oh, and you’d get those magazines with pages of code for a game - you’d spend a day typing it in and never be able to figure out the tiny error you’d made.

      Actually, games are so much better these days. It’s just unfortunate that capitalism.