Puts the “pay” in pay-to-play
But it effectively costs $0.20 per round since playing a level consumes 1 of your 5 lives whether you clear the level or not. And then you have to pay $1 to refill lives or wait an absurd amount of time to refill automatically.
That’s worse than old-school arcade games where at least you don’t lose a life if you don’t die on a level