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Message: [QUOTE="NotReallyHere, post: 246910, member: 81170"] When you and your buds were regularly plunking $10 each into a NBA Jam arcade machine per session, spending $90 to play it as much as you want doesn't really sound so bad! Remember: the arcade game charged you PER QUARTER to play. So if you wanted to play a full game, you had to "Insert Coin" four times - usually at $1 or so per pop 😅 Really, this is part of why arcade ports were so popular. It helped that, during the 16-Bit days, the quality of the home ports was on-par with the arcade more than ever before. The Genesis and SNES ports of NBA Jam were much more arcade-accurate than, say, Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. With Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and Street Fighter II, yeah, I would easily spend $15 or $20 in quarters every time I went to my local arcade. Getting the home versions wasn't cheap, but if you could get a few of those same friends to go in together with you to get a copy you could all share and play together at home, it was totally worth the asking price ✌️ [/QUOTE]

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