In Spain some of us got an alert for the solar eclipse, I kid you not. And the worst part is that with the loud beeping your first reaction is to turn it off… and by doing that you dismiss the message, so it is useless as fuck. Asking around somebody sent me a screenshot. I couldn’t believe this was used for something that stupid.

The perceived value back then was not having to pluck down 25c every time you played at the arcade. So even if the price was high it seemed cheap in the long run.

Editt : reading it again I’ve missed my point by a decade, this applies mostly to the late 80s