It's like Chuck E. Cheese, but without the giant rat merchandising.
First, we gorged ourselves on pizza... okay, I gorged myself on pizza, they had a moderate amount. Then, we headed to the game room. 100 tokens for $20, and we had a random one left over from last time. pseudo jr runs off immediately after I hand him a cup with 20 tokens and by the time I catch up with him he's already bored with the bulldozer game. akulaboy plays that for awhile, and I become convinced it's out of tickets. He jumps right over to the game next to it... which is also out of tickets.
I tried to stand in line to talk to the manager because it sucks for kids to plunk their quarters in and think they're not winning when they should be. But akulaboy was adamant; we needed to play games. We puttered around some more until I spotted the manager alone shifting quarters on a change machine. We approached him and I told him about the three games that were out (we had just hit up the "Twister" game, and it ran out while we were playing it), and he went and got some more tickets. When he reloaded the 'dozer game, I thanked him and headed off... but he stopped me and told me I could have the tickets it pumped out. I guess that's his policy, because he also gave us the tickets from the other two games while we were standing there waiting for those first tickets to output. I let akulaboy pump coins in while we waited, too, and he scored about 90 more tickets off of it (50 in one go)... we wound up cashing out right then before we continued playing, and we already had 400+ tickets.
I wanted to stress to akulaboy that this was a reward for being conscientious... but he's three. So, we just got a bunch of tickets.
We had a good time, and we're still saving our points for something cool. Maybe in August, we'll get something. We're almost up to 2000.