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Gaming Week 01 - Pointless Quest

SillyCircle

on July 18, 2020

This one's actually a little past my time, I think.

But I do remember when video games just kept speeding up until you couldn't win - or, in rare cases, you were good enough that you hit the game's limit and could play as long as you wanted on a single quarter. No matter how much you played, you never actually 'won'.

Then they started putting in time limits and winning conditions so no matter how good you were, you had to keep feeding quarters to the machines if you wanted to keep playing. The time limits sucked, but the winning conditions were a little more satisfying than just playing until you were bored.