Highlights:
- Tekken 7. Surprisingly long load times (longer than Street Fighter Alpha on PlayStation long), but good game. Rage Arts and Power Crush moves are good additions, and that slow motion thing is just icing on the cake.
- Ramen burger at L&L Hawaiian Barbecue. These things are never life-altering experiences, and they're not even my favorite kind of burger, but you've got to try them when they're there.
- Hatsune Miku. The arcade game had its own special controls and a new "slide" feature to replace the star notes. Dual notes were weird. I didn't get the $8 card yet. In the future I'll have to bring my headphones because you can plug them in. A lot of guys were doing that. The difficulty seemed pretty reasonable until Extreme when it just shoots up super high. Extreme, you definitely want to try the "one song, unlimited health" option rather than the "two songs and you're done, unless you outright fail the first song" mode.
- Ice cream claw game. I can pretty much get the ice cream cup on demand. One time I even got two ice creams with one claw! The game is four credits a pop, but since $10 = 40 credits = 25 cents per credit, that means I'm paying a dollar for those 4 FL oz cups (which is a generous two to three scoops if you ask me), so maybe I shouldn't get too excited.
- Wheel of Fortune. Quick and easy to play and I solved the puzzles two out of the three times I played. The answers were "BATTING AVERAGE" and "BATTERED FISH FILET." Got a good 102 tickets out of it. Would've gotten more if they didn't run out of tickets momentarily. They certainly could've made that "out of tickets" warning bigger.
- Water fountain. Free and cold just like the water fountain directly across from the principal's office.
Lowlights:
- The A/C was broken around the fighting game area. That made that area especially hot. We had two extra fans, which were pretty powerful (strong enough to catch passers-by off guard), but usually only one person gets any relief at all from those fans. There are emergency doors in that area, and they were open for about five minutes before the higher-ups decided being hot and miserable was good for business, so they closed those doors again.
- Lots of walking around. I didn't want to keep spending money to play games, and playing games meant sitting. And, well, anything to get away from the heat, right? To be fair, I found some relief near the always-empty Virtua Fighter cabinets. There's a nice fan, but only if you stand up. So you could either keep standing and be cool or sit down and be hot.
- The other ice cream treats outside of the ice cream cups were hard/impossible to win with the claw. The shape really matters here. I wanted to win a plush toy but they were hard to get too.
- Can't get anything good for 102 tickets. That Izanami-no-Okami figure was sweet, but it was 7,500.
WTF:
- Some really pretty girl (like, Heather Graham pretty) who seemed to be alone asked me a couple questions on two non-consecutive occasions. Those questions were not about getting me to buy something or to join some cult, either. Had I realized the situation, I would've asked some questions on my own (like, "Are you here by yourself?") and pried, pried, pried. God-freaking-dammit. Oh well. Maybe I'll be more aware of these things when it's not past 1:00 a.m.
