Spare Change

Spare Change is a video game in the action genre developed by Brøderbund Software, Inc. and published by Brøderbund Software, Inc. originally released in 1983. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit.

In Spare Change, you are the owner and operator of the Spare Change Arcade, dedicated to making your place run as smoothly as possible. Inside the arcade are token machines, jukeboxes, telephones, movie booths, popcorn machines, etc. The token machines need to be replenished with money from the cash register when they run out of tokens, but eventually, the cash register must be replenished with money from the safe. You must deposit tokens in one of your two deposits. When you have deposited at least ten tokens, the movie booth will open and you can enter to go to the next level. You also get a money bag, but if you store more than ten tokens, you get more than one money bag for each extra token collected. If you get nine money bags, you move on to the next level.

But the Zerks, two aliens that run around the screen, can steal tokens from machines or containers. Sometimes, one Zerk will throw a token to the other closest to the 'piggy bank'. You must touch them to retrieve the token, before they throw it into their piggy bank. You can also throw a token at the jukebox, telephone, popcorn machine, etc. and the Zerks will be distracted from their target, giving you plenty of time to keep filling the piggy banks. If the Zerks put five tokens in the piggy bank, the game ends.

Between levels, an intermission plays, which is similar to Pac-Man. Later in the game, you have the ability to access these in-betweens. As you progress through the levels, the game becomes quite difficult.

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