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RE: The life and death of arcades in USA
🤣 No. It never worked. Watching the machine, waiting for people to leave and not realise that they had credits left was far more successful.
Also, did it change the high scores
I'm not going to lie to you.
hahaha. ok. I'm sure I probably attempted something similar. One of my favorite arcade games was Gauntlet and one day in the Dairy Queen the game glitched and gave us all 99 credits that never dropped down. We played and played and played and were convinced after 5 hours or so that the game never ends. This was a blessing and a curse because it was awesome to just have endless play but it was a bad thing because that day also totally destroyed my interest in ever playing the game again.
That has got to be every kid's dream - did you manage to reach the end of the game?
Ha ha - an experience that inspired @whoisdrunkjohn's game purchases 😆
I played the game so long that I don't think there is an end to it. It would be ridiculous to play an arcade came for more than 4 hours and still not reach the end. According to various forums the arcade didn't ever end and the levels were randomly designed after a certain point. The home game, which kind of sucked, had a final boss at level 99, i think.
Oh man, what a cop out. What's the point in a game that you can't complete??
Games were different back then. When this was released high scores will still important. Honestly, there wasn't much strategy in this game and its only real appeal was that it was one of the first 4 player games that existed.
Yeah, very true. Top score was everything - it still means something sometimes - i.e. going to a mates house, top scoring on their missus favourite game and them not being able to beat it is still satisfying 🤣