NEW: Coins from retro airport video games benefit charity

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Leave it to the country that gave the world IKEA and ABBA to come up with the most ingenious way on the planet for travelers to get rid of spare currency after a flight.

Fliers arriving at Sweden’s two biggest airports, Stockholm Arlanda and Goteborg Landvetter, can now kill time while waiting for their luggage by playing video game classics “Ms. Pac-Man,” “Space Invaders” and “Galaga.”

Best of all, the machines in the “Charity Arcade” are custom-made to take coins of any currency, whether it’s yen, euro or pounds, and all the money is donated to the Swedish Red Cross.

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