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With the coin-op business, you're selling that gamea quarter at a time

With the coin-op business, you're selling that game
a quarter at a time

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- With the coin-op business,
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you're selling that game a quarter at a time.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:03
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
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The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.
With the home business, once you sell the cartridge, - Insert Coin 00:09
With the home business, once you sell the cartridge,
And it was a crappy game, okay, you made your money. - Insert Coin 00:05
And it was a crappy game, okay, you made your money.
And if that game sucked, the second quarter - Insert Coin 00:06
And if that game sucked, the second quarter
And in our case, we wouldn't even get out of the test phase. - Insert Coin 00:05
And in our case, we wouldn't even get out of the test p...
- We had this magic number of like $700. - Insert Coin 00:04
- We had this magic number of like $700.
That would be, if we could do that, - Insert Coin 00:06
That would be, if we could do that,
- So we put it out there. - Insert Coin 00:04
- So we put it out there.
You know, we were drinking champagne - Insert Coin 00:05
You know, we were drinking champagne
I was like [laughs], these guys walk in. - Insert Coin 00:05
I was like [laughs], these guys walk in.
They're like, oh, check this out, you know, - Insert Coin 00:05
They're like, oh, check this out, you know,
And just this whole new world of kind of like reality. - Insert Coin 00:05
And just this whole new world of kind of like reality.
No one had ever seen anything like that - Insert Coin 00:04
No one had ever seen anything like that
- Even with all of the problems in the software and stuff, - Insert Coin 00:05
- Even with all of the problems in the software and stuff,
And we're like we've done it! [triumphant video game music] - Insert Coin 00:05
And we're like we've done it! [triumphant video ga...
Yeah, that was the first time that we actually started - Insert Coin 00:06
Yeah, that was the first time that we actually started
I think then management all of the sudde - Insert Coin 00:08
I think then management all of the sudde
"Maybe we should actually plan to build this game - Insert Coin 00:09
"Maybe we should actually plan to build this game
It's manufactured by a company in Chicago - Insert Coin 00:05
It's manufactured by a company in Chicago
And it's currently the number one video arcade game - Insert Coin 00:04
And it's currently the number one video arcade game
But it was okay, because they were drug dealers [laughs] - Insert Coin 00:07
But it was okay, because they were drug dealers [laughs]