That's right, it's the dreaded coin pusher. I swear, they either used magnets or glued those darn coins onto the machine.

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With the astonishing breakout success of Balatro, it's no surprise that there's plenty of games taking cues from its dopamine-inducing format of watching numbers ratchet into the billions and beyond.