My first Tetris experience at the arcades: Tetris Payout

It is well known that on location operators had to place duct tape over the piece preview window to stop people from emptying the things.

The game assumed peopel would try to keep the stack low, or just go straight for tetrises, and designed the game so that when it didn't want you to win it would not give enough time assuming perfect stcking. However, the scoring gives more points to higher up line clears, and they didn't take that into account.

However playing it that way without a preview is impossible to do well.