Caine's Arcade Very First Customer (Nirvan's First Fun Pass)

This is a cellphone video of the first time I met Caine. I stopped into a random auto part store to get a door handle for my '96 Corolla, and stumbled across this 9 year old boy who had built an arcade out of cardboard boxes.

I asked Caine how his arcade worked, and he explained that for $1, I could get 4 turns, or for $2 I could get a fun pass with 500 turns. I got the Fun Pass.

Watch how Caine speaks into his intercom system after I bought the fun pass. His intercom is a pair of iPod headphones plugged into the cardboard. Caine has spent all summer building his arcade, and this was his first time running his arcade, so he was getting to use everything for the first time.

The first Fun Pass was originally a hotel swipe-key card. He later customized them and added the security system. He had to run into the back to get change.

I kept filming our game play, but my phone camera ran out of batteries and that second clip was erased, so this was all the video i got on that first visit.

I went back a few days later and met Caine's dad George to ask about making a short film about Caine's Arcade. That is when I learned that I had been Caine's first and only customers... after learning that, I decided to make a short film that would try to make Caine's day by surprising him with some unexpected customers.

See what happened next at http://www.cainesarcade.com

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