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Tone Control 27: Derek Yu

Tone Control

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Is There a Game That's Just Free to Download, but Every Time You Die, You Have to Pay 25 Cents to Buy Another Life

Every time you die, you have to pay 25 cents to buy another life. That was the entire structure of how games made money in the eighties. I mean, arcadians made money, so it's not unprecedented. If it was, like, if you don't get chicken dinner in pudgy, you're gong to have to put another quarter into play round, would be wild. How much more cautious would people be, even if just a quarter? Would people be in every run utri and not have to put it on e quarter? Ye, no, i don't know. Somehow it just seems really brutal now,. It does, it really does. But

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