Remember going to a bar and seeing people crowding around a Pac Man game watching a person breaking a 100 K score.
Lived in Sunnyvale, CA for a couple of years and there was a small comedy club/bar called Rooster T. Fethers (may still be in businesss). Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese) installed the first Pong game there. The next morning, the owner of the club called to tell him the game was broken. He showed up and found that the coin box was full. No one had anticipated the demand.