Caine's Arcade

A 9 year old boy - who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad's used auto part store - is about to have the best day of his life.

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Credits:
Directed by Nirvan
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(Caine's Arcade)

(various games are shown)

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

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

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

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

He loves tickets and playing games. He loves prizes.

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

He loves to see how things are built.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And eventually he took over the whole store

I met Caine randomly.

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

So I pulled into this used auto parts store,

and I just came across this elaborate cardboard arcade.

I asked him how much it was to play.

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

but for two dollars, you get a fun pass.

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

You get 500 turns for a fun pass.

I got a fun pass.

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

and you get 500 plays of any of these games.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First of all it didn't have no goalies.

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

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

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

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

Four star!

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

"I wanna buy a claw machine."

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

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

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

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

So, sunglasses.

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

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

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

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

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