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(Caine's Arcade)

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(various games are shown)

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[Caine] my name is Caine, I'm 9-years old.

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My arcade is called Caine's Arcade (onscreen: This is not a toy)

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It opens on weekends only and it's really cheap.

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[off voice] Caine does not pass by an arcade without stopping in.

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He loves tickets and playing games. He loves prizes.

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So it was only natural for him to build his own arcade.

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He loves to see how things are built.

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He takes all his toys apart to see how they work.

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He can't put them back together, but he takes them apart.

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Caine spent summer vacation coming to work with me - we sell auto parts in East L.A. -

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[Caine] My dad has lots of boxes back there, to ship parts out.

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So I cut them up to make my arcade games out of it.

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The first game I made, the baseball hoop I got at Shaky's pizza, and it's really cool.

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[off voice] And he taped it on to a box, and he was offering people chances to play for, like a nickel.

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He started from that little game and, little by little, they started getting fancier and fancier.

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And eventually he took over the whole store

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I met Caine randomly.

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I had to get a door handle for my '96 Corolla.

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So I pulled into this used auto parts store,

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and I just came across this elaborate cardboard arcade.

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I asked him how much it was to play.

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He's like, for one dollar you get four turns,

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but for two dollars, you get a fun pass.

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Well how many turns do you get for a fun pass?

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You get 500 turns for a fun pass.

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I got a fun pass.

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[Caine] I made this fun pass that expires in one month

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and you get 500 plays of any of these games.

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You get a great deal. And I started making my office.

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I have like, a speaker on there so I can talk through.

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I got tokens, my business card, fun passes and prizes.

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The first prizes, I used my old toys like, the cars were my old toys.

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[Vroom!] I used to like Hot Wheels when I was little.

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[Off voice - father] I work from the back office and it kept him out of my hair all Summer.

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He would work on the arcade. I'd work on eBay

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[Caine] My next game I built was a soccer game.

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First of all it didn't have no goalies.

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People said it was too easy. So I bought army goalies.

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They're my blockers. I thought, is it easy now?

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It's pretty hard so you get two tickets if you make it in here.

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I'll give it a "four star" hard game, challenging game.

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Four star!

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[Off: father] One day Caine tells me, "Dad!"

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"I wanna buy a claw machine."

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I say, "why don't you just build it?"

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So he got a .......... hook, put a piece of yarn on it, then put a little track (?) on top of the box

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and I said: "What the heck? He figured out how to make a claw machine with a string and a hook!"

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[Caine] And here are some sunglasses. These are the glasses I like the most.

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So, sunglasses.

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He'd buy calculators to put on every arcade game, and I go: "What's that for?"

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[Caine] The calculators are here for security, to see if it's a real fun pass or not.

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On the back, the fun pass has a security number.

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So when you go here, you have to turn it around and put the pin number in it.

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And you chould check ................ and the big number comes up (3:30)