[bradlys]

As if arcade games weren’t money hungry and painfully punishing purely to get more quarters out of children.

[pupppet]

Arcades got you out of the house, they had a communal aspect to them, you played games together. Those quarters were well spent!

[cwmoore]

I couldn't get a quarter out of my dad as a kid. Who's fault is the parents?

[vibrio]

If I mowed 2 acres of lawn dad would give me a stack of quarters. It didn’t take me long to realize that a fraction of that mowing time spent playing Defender would consume those quarters. I still loved playing it, but valuable perspective.