That's a vintage Casa Bonita arcade token. They swapped over to cards after reopening.
They have those little flags at your table to signal the waiter (and ask for more sopapillas of course).
A lot of this type of difficulty comes from transition of video games from the arcade to the home. Whereas gameplay was really designed around bilking kids out of as many quarters as possible. Giving just enough progress to encourage the player to keep feeding coins to the machine. Devs just used the existing arcade template in the early days of the home console market.
In the NES era we start to see some consideration for the home experience with more unlimited continues, progress saving via battery or codes, proper endings, and elimination of score as the primary goal of the proficient player. It's super rare to see a score display on modern AAA titles. Just crank the difficulty up a notch if the game is to easy.
1212. Good tunes in every bracket except 4. Love Chili Peppers but don't care for that song. But I'll never vote for Radiohead. On top of being one of the most pretentious bands in the world, those assholes cancelled the Denver show in 96 promising they'd reschedule and honor the tickets. Didn't happen of course. Fuck you, Thom.