In the game, when you do laundry, you're always going to make decent money. When you take no gum off the wall, you make a lot of money. And and yu then can use that to buy more arcade cabinets, and it moves all very quickly. But like, that's not life. Your success is so much more based on your, you know, basically the lot you were given at birth or just luck. The future is relatively indefinable no matter how hard you work.
The annual video game deluge has begun. This week, we played not one, not two, but three inventive new games. Arcade Paradise asks players to split their time between running a laundromat and launching a local arcade. Rollerdrome mixes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with Max Payne. And Drainus is to R-Type what Stardew Valley is to Harvest Moon. What does that mean? Listen to the show and find out!
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