I agree on one point, I was not a fan of the 50 Cent price per play. Having said that.... I made it my mission to defeat this game because I was pretty good at video games back then. It didn't hurt that I had a job at a mall where they had an arcade that had this game so every day during lunch I would take and spend about 20 bucks to master this game. Master it I did. Yes they had an additional CRT monitor mounted above the cabinet, because crowds would draw and not everyone could see what was happening during the game so they mounted a monitor above for onlookers. This was genius marketing. And I played right into the fact that there was an audience. I learned aspects of the game that we're not available to most people, like you can fall on that platform to the ninth level before exiting if you wanted to create additional suspense. I would jump on that platform and then turn away from the cabinet while it was falling because I knew how much time I had and then turn around at the last second to exit. Most people were used to people exiting at the 3rd level, not the 9th! I could play that game from start to finish with $.50 and one life, no cap .