If arcade games are just "quarter munchers" then how come many arcades in the US would apply speedhacks to Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man which would make the game way easier but also more fun? Maybe the balance between fun and difficulty is what makes arcade game design so exceptional, you have to make it fun or else no one will play it, and you have to make it difficult so they spend more money trying to get good at it.
Speed-up hacks were usually installed after Pac-Man machines were becoming stale for customers and owners wanted to rejuvenate those machines to regain profits without buying new games outright. I don't think that naybody would buy a brand new Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man machine and immediatelly install a speed-up modkit to make it more fun.
I never understood the idea of arcade games being designed as quarter munchers to begin with.Why not just make a fun game that people will want to play to completion over and over, instead of a game whose difficulty programming can be set to insane levels by the cabinet owner? Isn't that just enabling greed?
>>12139094This is why level one is a breeze and level two opens a can of whoop ass on you.
>>12139115>i never understood the idea of making moneyYou will when your parents stop buying toys for you.
>>12139662>moneyOh, I do. That's why I don't get tricked by quarter munchers like you do, wasting hundreds of dollars on these toys as an adult so you can brag to your tranny friends that you "beat it" after several months.
>>12139678>Oh, I do.lol. Sure you do. That's why you're crying about quarters and fantasizing about what grownups do with them.
>>12139094It's always been that way and only zoomer revisionist disagree, arcades are a risky business considering all those turboautists hogging the game for hours with one quarter. SF2 was the ideal game for both operators and players, good players hogged the machine forever while lower skill players kept the business alive while they get good
>>12140057Durring the heyday of arcades, which lasted over a decade, arcades were very low risk and practically let you print money. Only zoomer a revisionist disagrees.
