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How Game Currency Evolved From Arcade Tokens
An arcade token could buy another turn at a game, but it could not pay for the bus home. Its usefulness ended at the door. That limitation was part of its appeal to the business selling it. Once cash became tokens, it stayed in the arcade. Over the following decades, those tokens became card balances, […]
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