Give Junior a credit card. We dare you.

arcadeThe idea of micropayments has slowly been catching on in the last few years. Micropayments allow a consumer to pay for something as they use it. The challenge is to make enough money per transaction to generate a profit. Now that the arcade crowd is getting older (and, some would say, more sophisticated) there are plans in the works to make it easier to play games by using micropayment technology. A couple of companies have signed on, so the idea will get a trial run, at least. Whether it goes past that is another matter.

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