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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I remember watching a guy play an arcade game back in about 1990, I think it was spy hunter or something but the car could do a jump and side scrolled to the right. Not sure. Anyways, over the course of about 4 hours this guy plunked about $100 worth of quarters into the machine until he beat it.

10-year-old me was, uh, impressed to say the least. I tried playing it but I only had two quarters and lasted less than 3 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Those were the days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Definitely not Spy Hunter as that game loops and has no ending.

I remember using a cheat on the home computer version for my ZX Spectrum for infinite lives. I got bored after a while because of the fact it never got anywhere, just scenery changes every so often.