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Dig dug made $2 million a console in 1982 dollars. $2 million! That would be fantastic today. $5.25 million in 2018 dollars. That was a staggering amount of money. Assuming a console today might cost a couple thousand to manufacture, imagine if you made $1 million after designing and programming a game per console sold. That was a golden age in many ways.

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