/vr/ - Retro Games

"console centers" were a thing here but at least in my country, Chile, started with the PS1. So 1st worlders can understand, is quite simple: you set a bunch of TVs with consoles in a room, usually with the consoles glued to a cabinet, and you went to the counter and asked for a game, and then you paid of how much time you would like to play. I usually for example rented with my friends Crash Team Racing and we paid 1.5USD per hour. When the PS2 came out usually those places had both consoles and the PS2 time was like 2USD and the PS1 time 1USD. I dont need to say all the games were pirated.
Those places lasted till the PS3 - Xbox 360 came out because those consoles were very expensive to pirate, so the only ones who could give this service needed original copies of the games.