> I didn't think Asteroids Deluxe or Klax were worth $0.50 a game.
The first game I can remember seeing that cost double the regular price to play was Astron Belt. But this was somewhere in late 1982 or early 1983, it was a laserdisc game, and those (at the time) could legitimately get people to shell out twice the price because the technology was still fresh. By '84 or '85, the remaining laser games out there had mostly been set to regular price since the novelty had worn off.
The first non-laser game I can definitively remember seeing set at a double-price single play was the environmental version of Star Wars, and that was absolutely worth it for the experience alone. Same with Discs of Tron, though that never quite caught my interest the same way the original did.
By the time that was the norm for pricing, I was losing interest in video games in favour of girls anyway, and those are substantially more expensive.
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