Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?

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Where have you been shopping?

Most of them are one button, unless you're counting the Wico sticks with two buttons that are actually the same button.

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I don't see how lending someone a couple of disks to boot up in an A500 was harder than lending someone a cartridge.

Lending to a friend who'll take care of them is one thing, but renting out floppies is a bad idea, what with how easily they're destroyed, unless the rental place has license to make copies.

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I'd argue VHS tapes are a bit more resilient, one bad bit on a floppy and you could be screwed.

...not to mention VHS tapes aren't likely to get virii!

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Rental feasibility, Cart vs 3.5" floppy I doubt you would snap a 3.5" disk in half by accident, and it's not going to get damaged by accident.

Ridiculous. All it takes is a bit of weight in the wrong spot on a floppy disk and you can damage the moving parts (you know, like the little metal door?)  Also, heat/liquid/dirt are much more likely to damage a disk than a cartridge, the cartridge will generally dry out and work fine if it gets wet. Floppies are inherently more fragile than cartridges, and rental items generally see abuse, end of story.

Write protection is good enough protection against accidental transmission of a virus, but some nasty renter might think it's fun to stick a piece of tape over that hole and put a virus on the disk just for kicks.

edit: not to say the media is the biggest reason games weren't rented out on a large scale.  Consoles just sold way more units, creating a bigger market for rentals.