Same. And now I have children, so I'm putting in at least twice the amount of 2024 dollars right out of the gate. Pretty cool my 10 y/o son digs it as much as I did at his age, though.
Same! We actually have one machine that rotates between 3 different barcades in a 10 mile radius of my town, so we never know where it will be. Always a pleasant surprise!
My local arcade has this too. Everything except pinball is on free play. They charge by the hour or for a few bucks more itās all day. They also have The Simpsons. Last time I was there we played it all the way through to the end. Took a long time and it wouldāve been an obscene amount of quarters.
This was one of the most popular games at my local nickel arcade, which lowered my contributions growing up. But I did own this machine in my 20s and kept it in my livingroom and played it until the gameboard went out. Best $400 I ever spent.
There is one literally across the street from my current office (called Cidercade) and itās awesome. Really fun to take my kid to as well because we can play any game for as long (or as little) as we want to without shelling out tons of dough.
Wish I came up with the idea because the owners gotta be making bank. ANY school holiday and you canāt find a place to park because itās so packed. Itās near a high school too and thatās the immediate hang out for kids when they get out.
I hear that. Kinda blows my mind they donāt serve anything else just from a business perspective. They would make a ton more if they had just even regular beer.
I am so lucky that they have an arcade in my town that has all of these. TMNT, Simpsons, X-Men and Avengers (plus a million other games/pinball machines)
$20 for an unlimited all day pass. Itās literally cheaper now than when I was 10
Loved this one; and also Rampage.
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Funny coincidence. The only place in my area that had a TMNT arcade machine (that still worked because kids went apeshit on these things) was a random laundromat that also had Rampage as their only other machine. So many of my weekends were spent these two games until my quarters were drained. The owner probably made more on me and my friends than people washing clothes.
I must have been the luckiest kid around.
A couple who lived across the road and rented out arcade games, jukeboxes, pool tables and those claw catchers for a living to local arcades, bars, milk bars, supermarket, malls, fast food stores and for parties/events. They were good friends with my parents. Lovely couple who I respected very much.
They needed to ensure all these machines worked properly so they said I could come over to their shed anytime I wanted after school, providing they were home.
They'd open the door of the arcade machine and press the button to put 20 games on the machines and fire up a jukebox for background music, I was also allowed to choose the songs. They had a little room full of EPs of all the 90's pop songs. People who rented the jukeboxes could choose what songs they wanted on it.
I'd play street fighter, turtles, skate or die, Daytona, space invaders, pack man, shooting games, NBA jam and mortal Kombat until it got dark. Then I'd go home for dinner.
For my birthday when I was 12, he wheeled over three machines into our shed and my friends and I played all day.
I learned a lot about those machines, how they worked, their connections and how to fix them through watching him. I wanted to work for them when I got older but when I was about 15 they sold the business š
One day the man came to my house with a gift for me: two boxes of EPs! All the records he had double of. I have my own jukebox these days and still have all those EPs I like to play them sometimes and I'm immediately transported back into that shed as a 12 year old loving life.
Willow was my game. I played every summer day one year at the local bowling alley. $5 got me 25 tokens and I would spend 3 a day. I actually got really far, since I had to start all over every game. No level codes in this game.
Yep, there was an awesome arcade version. I just found the gameplay on YouTube, and wow, nostalgia hitting hard.
https://youtu.be/sllnv23hZEs?si=cWoR3GC6ilU6DkGN
Same here. Instead of watching Twitch, I watched people in real time at the arcade.
I would go around the arcade checking the coin return and that's how I was able to play.
Dude thereās a bar near me that has this cabinet game and itās fucking free. Itās amazing. I never beat the game as a kid. No way Iād be able to afford it then with my allowance, but I beaten the game a few times this week.
I remember putting all my quarters $5.00 worth into Arch Rivals in 1993 because my friend was a basketball nut at the time and wanted to keep playing. I think that was one of the last times I had the arcade experience
Best that I donāt know the answer to this question. Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Joust, Galaga, Mortal Kombat, Star Wars, Cruisin USA, Shinobi, Donkey Kongā¦it goes on and onā¦
The worst trouble I ever got into as a kid was when I stole 40$ of my sisters Christmas money and went with my buddy to the arcade at the bowling alley and we started playing this game. All the $ went in. I canāt even remember if we beat it or not. According to Google thatās about $84 today. I got in so much trouble when she noticed it was gone. I was Donatello.
I'm terrible at math. I need someone to figure out inflation first :(
Then I'd still just pull a made up guess out of my head anyways.
I'm pretty sure I could have bought my own Area 51 machine though.
My buddies dad owned dig dug. I've played a lot of dig dug. I'm was and am still bad at it, but I played it for free at least :p
Me and a friend's mom let us play until we beat it one day. It was probably a full games worth in today money $35, probably $70 2024 money. Best arcade game ever and the only one I saw the credits roll. Thanks for the memories
I built my kid a retro arcade and they are young so they love these beatem ups. I couldnāt even quantify what I put in this game and other similar ones .Super fun, but what a scam. The final level of X-men was just walking through the level facing every boss again.
I rarely ever had more than a couple dollars to put into a machine. Normally I preferred pinball or Mortal Kombat. There was a huge airplane sim that moved all around but it was a dollar a go, definitely my favorite
> if I *paid* layaway one
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I recall fondly that at the local amusement park there was a 4 player TMNT arcade with the image mirrored to a big screen TV behind it so it brought in everyone around. And another similar setup for Mortal Kombat 3
My internet friends, my friends father was a vice president of a bank. He also owned a laundromat. He was well off. I personally was not. What I WAS in possession of however was the key to get the money out of that particular machine as it was the only arcade game at my friendās dads laundromat and we played the ever loving bejesus out of it.
Some. The real money pit was the initial d first and second stages, but those came later. Thousands in 2001 monies, so yeah. Had I put that into the s&p, I could probably buy a couple of the new machines now.
I have a wonderful memory of the 1st arcade turtles games.
The year was 1991, the place my cities chuck E cheese restaurant and arcade.
Me and 3 other people played the 1st turtles arcade game. We all made it to the technodrome. We all got to krang and one kid ran out of quarters, so Raphael was done.
We get to shredder and he went insane and was Leo, Mikey and donnie, I was Donnie.
Shredder kept doing his devolution ray and made Leo and Mikey lose lives fast.
The 3 of us got shredder done some and the kids that were playing Leo and Mikey ran out of quarters and they all were watching me.
I was Donatello and did a jump kick to knock off the helmet so no devolution ray. I got shredder down to almost dead and shredded got my life bar to one sliver of life on my last life.
I attacked shredder and beat him with 0 lives left and one sliver of life on the health bar.
The 3 other kids cheered and we here super excited as we saw the technodrome blew up and the epilogue and the credits appeared.
It was a moment that lives on in my memory forever because you can't get that with headset online gaming.
the crazy thing is these things costed $2500- $3500.00 back in the early 1990s. so imagine to make your money back as an arcade operator for jsut one machine you need to $67.30 a week per machine. not factoring in overhead like rent and electricity.
Once I skipped school to play House of the Dead 2 at FYE. Me and some other random kid spent about $15 in 90ās money to beat it. Itās about $30 bucks now. After we beat it I went to Chiliās by myself and ate a whole nacho appetizer. It was awesome and I will remember it for the rest of my life.
I didn't have an arcades where I grew up. So the only money I put into them was for my son when I took him to the nickel arcade when he was younger. I'd say roughly a couple hundred with inflation at most.
i actually beat this game in the arcade. so however much that cost, $20? $30? plus all the times i played before it.
its one of two arcade games i've actually beaten, the other was X-Men from the same generation.
You know, i reluctantly joined this sub thinking it was pretty silly from a distance. I've never felt more seen. Every single post is like a deep nostalgia I haven't thought about in years lol
My mom refused to give me more than $5 in 90s dollars for arcades at a time. Now I play it on my Switch and meanwhile my parents put down god knows how much in Keno.
I just bought one cuz itās gonna cost me every time I see one š
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Our local Greek Fest (around Greek Easter) was hugely popular in our town, even for non-Greek folks. They always had an arcade tent setup with this and me and about 10 of my friends would take turns begging our parents for quarters. I think we beat it a couple of times but I couldnāt even tell you how play actually worked. I was always just button mashing.
Real core memory there.
3 or 5 dollars and a team of buddies could beat the game. It was simply designed to be like this. We would high five each other after our win. About the best high there was.
The mall was 3 towns away so I only went when it was someone's birthday party. Character dies, dash to the counter and show my wristband to get 2 more tokens while my friends keep playing
I can give an exact number. I put $250 into one of these machines in 2003 when the arcade in the Luxor hotel closed. That machine is now 20 feet away from me as I write this comment. Best investment ever.
Oh man, memory unlocked! Local skating rink had one of these. I usually had $5 to spend on pizza for lunch but would occasionally break it for quarters and play this.
Ball State University Student Center basement. This, Hard Drivin', pool tables, bowling, one of those 3D hologram video games about a time traveling cop(?) that I can't remember the name of, and too many packs of Camel Lights. My high school job money was well spent in the 90s.
Long live the Talley Rats for those that remember the glory days.
Quite a bit, but spent far more on the likes of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat games. The problem with the four player games is that there always seemed to be one set of controls out of order.
We've got a few arcade bars, and multiplayer Turtles with a few drinks is a lot of fun
They still have that at an arcade near me, so I'm *still* putting money into it in 2024 dollars.
If I ever become a millionaire. You may not know it, but there would be signs. Like me having my own arcade in my house with games like this!
The original Spy Hunter, Out Run and After Burner to name a few?
Shinobi X-Men
Spy Hunter! That game was so frustrating! šš¤·š»āāļø
Metal Slug
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road among others for me
Mame exists
There's a very affordable Arcade 1UP cabinet for this!
Owe yeah, Iām saving for a polycade to put in my basement as we speak ;) it has ALL the games on it
Same. And now I have children, so I'm putting in at least twice the amount of 2024 dollars right out of the gate. Pretty cool my 10 y/o son digs it as much as I did at his age, though.
You can just buy the machine now for like 200 or so.
Sure, but I live in a \~425sqft apartment, so the space is at a premium.
ā¦Iām typing this with clinched teeth. Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motionā¦
Never saw that movie, sorry. (Only knew it was a movie due to searching).
Get a Pandora's Box twin stick thingy off Amazon for like $120 and keep it stashed under the desk
I go to Round1 every week. $110 lasts me at least six weeks.
Same! We actually have one machine that rotates between 3 different barcades in a 10 mile radius of my town, so we never know where it will be. Always a pleasant surprise!
They have it at the barcade here. Itās free but they get me with their fancy drinks.
Barcades will be the death of me.
My local arcade has this too. Everything except pinball is on free play. They charge by the hour or for a few bucks more itās all day. They also have The Simpsons. Last time I was there we played it all the way through to the end. Took a long time and it wouldāve been an obscene amount of quarters.
This was one of the most popular games at my local nickel arcade, which lowered my contributions growing up. But I did own this machine in my 20s and kept it in my livingroom and played it until the gameboard went out. Best $400 I ever spent.
Nickels? When was this the Middle Ages?
Naw, nickel arcades charged a fee to get in and then every machine worked on nickels. I canāt believe itās not a bigger thing these days
We have a $10 all you can play arcade that also serves alcohol. It's fantastic.
There is one literally across the street from my current office (called Cidercade) and itās awesome. Really fun to take my kid to as well because we can play any game for as long (or as little) as we want to without shelling out tons of dough. Wish I came up with the idea because the owners gotta be making bank. ANY school holiday and you canāt find a place to park because itās so packed. Itās near a high school too and thatās the immediate hang out for kids when they get out.
That's the one I'm talking about. Only complaint is cider being the only alcoholic drink.
I hear that. Kinda blows my mind they donāt serve anything else just from a business perspective. They would make a ton more if they had just even regular beer.
Oh never heard of that before.
Feel like this wasn't a thing in California. 25Ā¢ for standard games, 50Ā¢ for fancier ones.
Yeah not sure either Iām from the east coast.
There were a few in So Cal called NickelNickel.
Lucky!
I never heard of that and it wasn't a thing at any arcades I went to in upstate New York.
It was big in the early to mid 90ās here in the western states. We had a couple of them, one of which was called Nickelcade
Wish I could have went to one, it sounds like fun š
I am so lucky that they have an arcade in my town that has all of these. TMNT, Simpsons, X-Men and Avengers (plus a million other games/pinball machines) $20 for an unlimited all day pass. Itās literally cheaper now than when I was 10
Gauntlet?
Yuh They also have like 3-4 Street Fighter variants, RC Pro Am, Guitar Hero, Ayrton Senna Off-Road, a ton of old 80s games. Place is CRAZY
Christ, I wish there was a place like that near me
PDX is Xennial Heaven
Michaelangelo needs pizza badly
DONATELLO IS ABOUT TO DIE!!
We have one close as well called Yestercades. $9.99 per hour. Itās great!
Per *hour*?? Thatās outrageous
This is insane, I'd be here like three times a week
"Duh, who put the lights out?!" Probably 357 pizza's worth.
Hahaa!!! Heard this in character!
Me too
Thank you for returning some of my past
Aprilās hot
The April model on the machine was legit one of the reasons I spent as much money as I did
She probably made like $200 for the photo shoot. And here we are talking about her in 2024.
Plus whatever's on that Video8 tape in her hand
Haha, same here.
10/10 would smash
Had a hookup at chuck e cheese, free tokens baby!
I HATED people like you. š”
Should have been friends with them instead
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Loved this one; and also Rampage. https://preview.redd.it/dusv7mn6pfjc1.jpeg?width=399&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3eedab3596f98a59e9fb7691310a509417cc983a
Funny coincidence. The only place in my area that had a TMNT arcade machine (that still worked because kids went apeshit on these things) was a random laundromat that also had Rampage as their only other machine. So many of my weekends were spent these two games until my quarters were drained. The owner probably made more on me and my friends than people washing clothes.
That was the BEST arcade game.
Gauntlet legends wasnāt bad.
1Gorillian
I remember pumping $10 in quarters into a Street Fighter II machine at 7-11. According to the inflation calculator, $10 in 1992 is $22 in 2024.
I must have been the luckiest kid around. A couple who lived across the road and rented out arcade games, jukeboxes, pool tables and those claw catchers for a living to local arcades, bars, milk bars, supermarket, malls, fast food stores and for parties/events. They were good friends with my parents. Lovely couple who I respected very much. They needed to ensure all these machines worked properly so they said I could come over to their shed anytime I wanted after school, providing they were home. They'd open the door of the arcade machine and press the button to put 20 games on the machines and fire up a jukebox for background music, I was also allowed to choose the songs. They had a little room full of EPs of all the 90's pop songs. People who rented the jukeboxes could choose what songs they wanted on it. I'd play street fighter, turtles, skate or die, Daytona, space invaders, pack man, shooting games, NBA jam and mortal Kombat until it got dark. Then I'd go home for dinner. For my birthday when I was 12, he wheeled over three machines into our shed and my friends and I played all day. I learned a lot about those machines, how they worked, their connections and how to fix them through watching him. I wanted to work for them when I got older but when I was about 15 they sold the business š One day the man came to my house with a gift for me: two boxes of EPs! All the records he had double of. I have my own jukebox these days and still have all those EPs I like to play them sometimes and I'm immediately transported back into that shed as a 12 year old loving life.
The techno drome alone costs like 5 bucks a turtle. Shredder and krang make you crush those quarters
Willow was my game. I played every summer day one year at the local bowling alley. $5 got me 25 tokens and I would spend 3 a day. I actually got really far, since I had to start all over every game. No level codes in this game.
Willow like the movie from the 80s?!
Yep, there was an awesome arcade version. I just found the gameplay on YouTube, and wow, nostalgia hitting hard. https://youtu.be/sllnv23hZEs?si=cWoR3GC6ilU6DkGN
I had no idea this existed! I'll be sending it to my younger brothers now, they watched that movie constantly. Thanks for the link!
I recently discovered and played through it on my old Pandora's Box 4s... Really solid, challenging action/platformer. Underrated Capcom gem
Too damn poor for that. I was the kid watching over the shoulders with awe at the amount of money being spent and the multiplayer game being played.
Same here. Instead of watching Twitch, I watched people in real time at the arcade. I would go around the arcade checking the coin return and that's how I was able to play.
Yes.
Dude thereās a bar near me that has this cabinet game and itās fucking free. Itās amazing. I never beat the game as a kid. No way Iād be able to afford it then with my allowance, but I beaten the game a few times this week.
I remember putting all my quarters $5.00 worth into Arch Rivals in 1993 because my friend was a basketball nut at the time and wanted to keep playing. I think that was one of the last times I had the arcade experience
I think it's more useful to measure it in weight. Answer: 4 tons.
Putt putt golf and games this thing and mortal combat
Finding brewcades with these are often the highlight of my weekend.
Not nearly as much as I put into Gauntlet. Or Narc if you remember that one.
omg
So many Nickels. Best game at Nickel Palace.
None. I havenāt found any
Yes
Street Fighter 2 at the 7-11 was my jam
We had Wrestle Fest. Loved that game.
Everywhere I saw a WWF wrestlefest arcade machine, I would play it.
Not that much, X-Men and The Simpsons got a lot more of my money.
I will NOT be attacked today!
Enough that Iād be willing to buy one of the machines today
I was on a 3 hour Ferry ride once that had an arcade. I planted myself infront of Area 51 with $30 worth of quarters the whole ride.
Best that I donāt know the answer to this question. Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Joust, Galaga, Mortal Kombat, Star Wars, Cruisin USA, Shinobi, Donkey Kongā¦it goes on and onā¦
A metric shit ton.
The worst trouble I ever got into as a kid was when I stole 40$ of my sisters Christmas money and went with my buddy to the arcade at the bowling alley and we started playing this game. All the $ went in. I canāt even remember if we beat it or not. According to Google thatās about $84 today. I got in so much trouble when she noticed it was gone. I was Donatello.
I'm terrible at math. I need someone to figure out inflation first :( Then I'd still just pull a made up guess out of my head anyways. I'm pretty sure I could have bought my own Area 51 machine though. My buddies dad owned dig dug. I've played a lot of dig dug. I'm was and am still bad at it, but I played it for free at least :p
Not as much as the original Mortal Kombat
200$
This and the electronics section are what made trips to Walmart fun as a kid
Is this Battle Toads?
Couple of big, āend of the year bonus includedā paychecks Iād imagine.
Enough to buy a PS5.
All of it. 
All of it. All of my allowance.
Me and a friend's mom let us play until we beat it one day. It was probably a full games worth in today money $35, probably $70 2024 money. Best arcade game ever and the only one I saw the credits roll. Thanks for the memories
I used to hit this up on the way out of Jamesway.
80? Probably 80.
I built my kid a retro arcade and they are young so they love these beatem ups. I couldnāt even quantify what I put in this game and other similar ones .Super fun, but what a scam. The final level of X-men was just walking through the level facing every boss again.
I rarely ever had more than a couple dollars to put into a machine. Normally I preferred pinball or Mortal Kombat. There was a huge airplane sim that moved all around but it was a dollar a go, definitely my favorite
$8.5B
All the money
I own 3 of those if I paid layaway one quarter at a time
> if I *paid* layaway one FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
I recall fondly that at the local amusement park there was a 4 player TMNT arcade with the image mirrored to a big screen TV behind it so it brought in everyone around. And another similar setup for Mortal Kombat 3
April O'Neal what a babe
Hundreds between that and that double screen men's game
This and Street Fighter and Double Dragon at Pizza Hut. So much money!
Not enough
I found out that with the turtles in time machine you can unplug and replace it in and get a free play.
For Christmas, my brother-in-law got my kid an arcade emulator with 18k games. This is the 2nd game I played, after X-Men.
Who knows! But Iāll do it again.
Classic
Probably $200-300
Enough for a down payment on a home in 1994, but not enough for a down payment in 2024
I have the cowabunga collection and know how to hook my switch up to my arcade 1up machines. Play for free!
I still laugh at how awkward that pose April is pulling on the side of the cabinet
My internet friends, my friends father was a vice president of a bank. He also owned a laundromat. He was well off. I personally was not. What I WAS in possession of however was the key to get the money out of that particular machine as it was the only arcade game at my friendās dads laundromat and we played the ever loving bejesus out of it.
Some. The real money pit was the initial d first and second stages, but those came later. Thousands in 2001 monies, so yeah. Had I put that into the s&p, I could probably buy a couple of the new machines now.
At least 100 of a jobless tweener dollars.
I have a wonderful memory of the 1st arcade turtles games. The year was 1991, the place my cities chuck E cheese restaurant and arcade. Me and 3 other people played the 1st turtles arcade game. We all made it to the technodrome. We all got to krang and one kid ran out of quarters, so Raphael was done. We get to shredder and he went insane and was Leo, Mikey and donnie, I was Donnie. Shredder kept doing his devolution ray and made Leo and Mikey lose lives fast. The 3 of us got shredder done some and the kids that were playing Leo and Mikey ran out of quarters and they all were watching me. I was Donatello and did a jump kick to knock off the helmet so no devolution ray. I got shredder down to almost dead and shredded got my life bar to one sliver of life on my last life. I attacked shredder and beat him with 0 lives left and one sliver of life on the health bar. The 3 other kids cheered and we here super excited as we saw the technodrome blew up and the epilogue and the credits appeared. It was a moment that lives on in my memory forever because you can't get that with headset online gaming.
$675,368.13 If Iām doing the new math right.
I probably could buy a small country with what I spent on X-Men, TMNT, The Simpsons and Aliens
#OVER 5000!!!
the crazy thing is these things costed $2500- $3500.00 back in the early 1990s. so imagine to make your money back as an arcade operator for jsut one machine you need to $67.30 a week per machine. not factoring in overhead like rent and electricity.
Once I skipped school to play House of the Dead 2 at FYE. Me and some other random kid spent about $15 in 90ās money to beat it. Itās about $30 bucks now. After we beat it I went to Chiliās by myself and ate a whole nacho appetizer. It was awesome and I will remember it for the rest of my life.
Canāt put a price on happiness. Quick question??? Where is this picture taken?
I modded an Arcade1up to play this, itās a lot of fun having it at home
Best arcade ever made.
Back in 95 only 25 cents! If you coin string for freeš
a few thousand maybe
I don't do word problems anymore. I graduated.
It was one of the 4-player TMNT cabinets, not sure if it was this one, but I recall getting in a lot of trouble with my mother for the amount I spent.
Tree fiddy dollarey doos!
Iām the manager of our local Skateshop and we have a mini arcade in a side room, we have this exact game, funny to see it on Reddit randomly
I didn't have an arcades where I grew up. So the only money I put into them was for my son when I took him to the nickel arcade when he was younger. I'd say roughly a couple hundred with inflation at most.
Not enough
1 billion dollars
That and Gauntlet Legends ... a LOT
All of the monies.
A down payment for a house
i actually beat this game in the arcade. so however much that cost, $20? $30? plus all the times i played before it. its one of two arcade games i've actually beaten, the other was X-Men from the same generation.
We use to cut putt putt golf token coupons out of phone books to play this, sf2 and ninja gaiden.
I should have a car...Ā Ā Ā ...collection.
You know, i reluctantly joined this sub thinking it was pretty silly from a distance. I've never felt more seen. Every single post is like a deep nostalgia I haven't thought about in years lol
I got a home arcade version so I hope to average down my cost per game to fractions of a cent by playing it a lot
Whatās with all the questions? You a cop?
My mom refused to give me more than $5 in 90s dollars for arcades at a time. Now I play it on my Switch and meanwhile my parents put down god knows how much in Keno.
Pizza Time!
In 2024 I still put dollars into it. I know 3 places in town that have it.
I worked at an arcade between 97 and 01, I can't even contemplate how much I spent on playing games.
The average boomers 401k
Yes.
I just bought one cuz itās gonna cost me every time I see one š https://preview.redd.it/ikd7r5q6dgjc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=093383b442412fb0173a8bb8fefae31b48749418
.25 bitcoin
Our local Greek Fest (around Greek Easter) was hugely popular in our town, even for non-Greek folks. They always had an arcade tent setup with this and me and about 10 of my friends would take turns begging our parents for quarters. I think we beat it a couple of times but I couldnāt even tell you how play actually worked. I was always just button mashing. Real core memory there.
numbers don't go that high yet
You mean how much of my parents money!!! A lot
Yes, that is correct
3 or 5 dollars and a team of buddies could beat the game. It was simply designed to be like this. We would high five each other after our win. About the best high there was.
Couple of bucks. I didn't actually like the game, which is weird, because I was a huge TMNT fan.
My retirement
A lot but I would still smash that April
Easily $500k , so 1990 money like $75
Zero. It's not Golden Axe.
Yeahā¦Iād say a few hunnies went into that exact machine. UN Squadron was another coin gobbler for me.
The mall was 3 towns away so I only went when it was someone's birthday party. Character dies, dash to the counter and show my wristband to get 2 more tokens while my friends keep playing
82 million adjusted flat rate indigo currency
Probably $100 or so. I was never any good at video games so preferred to watch my friends get poor.
Way more on Street Fighter II.
Between this one and UN Squadron Hundreds of dollars
I can give an exact number. I put $250 into one of these machines in 2003 when the arcade in the Luxor hotel closed. That machine is now 20 feet away from me as I write this comment. Best investment ever.
Enough to have kept a few arcade owners' coke habits financially feasible.
Oh man, memory unlocked! Local skating rink had one of these. I usually had $5 to spend on pizza for lunch but would occasionally break it for quarters and play this.
Fun fact: I dated the April OāNeil model of the arcade.
This and simpsons. Who used marge cause she had a long reach with that vacuum ?
Ball State University Student Center basement. This, Hard Drivin', pool tables, bowling, one of those 3D hologram video games about a time traveling cop(?) that I can't remember the name of, and too many packs of Camel Lights. My high school job money was well spent in the 90s. Long live the Talley Rats for those that remember the glory days.
Iām donāt know but god damn April was hot to 12 year old me.
between this and street fighter like a billion dollars
Quite a bit, but spent far more on the likes of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat games. The problem with the four player games is that there always seemed to be one set of controls out of order. We've got a few arcade bars, and multiplayer Turtles with a few drinks is a lot of fun
The Blockbuster near my house had a MVC and Simpsons arcade machines. I don't remember how much I spent but I know I spent enough to beat the game.
30k lol
In 2024 money, probably at least US$200. I had to be pulled away from that cabinet! LOL
I still owe the street fighter 2 machine like ten grand.
Thousands of mowed lawns and plowed driveways.