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Pokémon Red & Blue thoroughly destroyed any compulsions I might have for gambling. On average I could gain coins, but the payouts were tiny and the process was tedious. Instead, I got my Dratini by beating trainers for money and trading it for coins, simultaneously leveling my pokémon and making game progress. It stuck with me that I could best earn money through diligent work, and that slots are a waste of time.
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In conclusion, video games cure gambling addictions… sometimes.
dunno, like that better than lootboxes, battlepasses n stuff.
Mario 2 had the slot machine at the end of every level for extra lives. One chance per coin you found.
Mario 3 had loot boxes (toad house), card games, and a slot type game.
still less predatory than app store
Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros had Luigi as a dealer
I never understood what it was when I was a kid, I just thought it was an arcade.
One of my earliest gaming memories was playing Caesar’s Palace on the Super Nintendo. No one in my family could win the horse racing bets.
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
I got addicted to the slot machine in Sonic 2. I would play on that till the timer killed me lol.
I was appalled they removed this from that stupid switch remake.
Yeah, no way a modern game would refer to places where gambling would take place.
Those crazy 90’s sure were unique.
Still there. We just call them “surprise mechanics” nowadays
Voltorb flip was way ahead of its time.
When I was a kid, my mother’s boyfriend at the time would take my sisters, his sons, and I to Chuck-E-Cheese every so often. I kid you not, they had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pachinko machine! I didn’t know what it was at the time, I just thought it was some weird upright pinball machine with a Ninja Turtles motif. Wasn’t until years later when I found out what a pachinko machine was and put two and two together.
Ahh yess the old days of pokemon gimme a sec to empty my wallet to try for triple 7’s xD
Oh yeah it was crazy! Way different to nowadays when they wouldn’t dare put gambling in video games, especially not those targeted at young folks. We really stamped this issue out early huh guys? Guys?
My first gambling addiction
Now kids get to gamble for real on loot boxes.
How can you tell?
Not as addicting as the poker games in harvest moon.
The Right Now’s are different.
There is no safe distance from these predatory gaming mechanics.
Now we make a billion different kid-friendly pachinko machines, while providing zero monetary payout ever unless you’re scamming the “house.”
This post is confused with its own current history, while talkin’ real judgy.
Gamble, win, save. Gamble, lose, reload, change machines. Repeat.
I’m playing Yellow for the first time currently, and just came across this today and had the exact same thought!
Homie there’s literally gambling in kids games today so much so the government got involved
Yeah, now that have straight up gambling in games for kids.
Not as bad as loot boxes
This is where I learned that I should never enter a casino irl
Now it’s loot boxes and vbucks
As a result, 99% of our current games from mobile to AAA have random loot boxes you can buy and/or gacha systems using real money.
We played ourselves before we became ourselves
Its so sad that they removed this + the fact that we are probably never gonna see modern versions of those funny little Luigi casino minigames, Yet packs and loot boxes exist in games with low age ratings, despite their predatory gambling mechanics that use REAL money
Pokemon games made me outright hate casinos. They usually were the most tedious parts of the game. Even the hideouts hidden under them were extremely tedious and frustrating.
Ever played the Yakuza series?
They were different, but not for this reason. Gambling is alive and well in video games. Particularly RPGs. They’re insanely common. Casinos and gambling are a backbone of games.
If anything, this is laughable that you’d make this comparison because games now have LITERAL gambling with loot boxes and predatory microtransactions that are ruining lives and bank accounts and have been outlawed in some countries. But.. you’re worried about 8-bit fake pachinko…?!
They have luck based microtransactions in basically all games now tho?
I mean it was supposed to be kinda sketchy, it’s still just a cover up for a rocket base
Pachinko? Man, these were straight-up slot machines. You could *play* them.
Now the smartphone is the pachinko parlor and people get stolen Lifetime and money.
OP, you need to play Deja Vu – an adventure point n click mystery game. If you use “Gun” on “self” – you blow your brains out.
Same with ShadowGate and Uninvited. The latter goes into gruesome detail of youe flesh melting and such.
Nes games man.
As a ked I saw it as “luck if you match the images” and you get rewards
They had the casino until generation 5 where they got rid of it do rules of depictions of gambling in games in certain countries.
How do you even play this? I could get 6 seizures in a minute from this image alone
iirc, wasn’t there a lawsuit involving a gambling addiction allegedly caused by Pokemon?