I hate ticket games. They are annoying, loud and they break all the time.
Why do people cheat and steal for tickets? Don't they realize that the stuff is crap! Most of the value of that quarter you drop is paying for the gamble. But whether it's a simple as walking up the skee ball ramp and dropping the balls in the 100 point ring or as sly as attempting to turn in a brick of unfed tickets in as legit winnings, people can't seem to help themselves. (Translation: A 'brick' is 1000 tickets. You can tell they aren't legit if they don't have the little teeth marks they get from being fed through the ticket slot: a smooth ticket is a stolen ticket).
At least catching cheaters was fun.
Tickets were also responsible for the the worst job at the arcade: being the dude at the redemption counter. Ugh.
"Okay kid, you got 7,398 tickets. You can get anything from this here Dancing Cactus and down."
The kid looked around and sees something. A little plastic foot. This foot is crap. It was just a piece of transparent, colored plastic cut in the shape of a foot. It wasn't 3D. It wasn't sticky. It wasn't big. It didn't glow in the dark. It was manufatured to be lost. It did have a hole punched in it, so I guess you could make a shitty necklace. They have it so that people have something to do with their last ticket. It's the porcelain dog of Golfland.
"Oooh! I want a foot!"
Great. "You have 7,397 tickets."
I hate ticket games.
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#1 Otherland Jan 28, 2005 07:38am
And thus we come to the reason i didn't play ticket games, except when required as a social nicety. Bouncy balls were fun to irritate people with though.
#2 Glenn Turner Jan 28, 2005 11:22am
I liked the ball games.
I don't like the tickets because I feel somewhat obligated to store them, when I know I'm never gonna do squat with 'em.
At least that's one thing Dave & Busters is good for - they keep track of your 'tickets' on your little card.
#3 R. LeFeuvre Jan 28, 2005 10:11pm
You would like ticket games.
#4 Dublyner Jan 29, 2005 05:34am
My arcade had crazy prizes on the top shelf that always ignited that irrational, ambitious hope in me. We're talking Sony Cassette Walkmans and BB Guns here, people.
#5 Stilgar Jan 30, 2005 02:09am
Yeah, mine had Nintendo 64's or whatever the gaming console was at the time. The catch was you had to spend hundreds of dollars to get enough tickets.
#6 R. LeFeuvre Jan 30, 2005 03:08am
You see, that's because you have to also pay for the fun you get for playing the game.
At least that's what I said when people tried to get their money back AFTER playing ticket games and finding that they couldn't affoard anything good. "You can't return your fun so I can't return your money. Sorry"
#7 Namons Jan 31, 2005 06:31am
Meh. I can take them or leave them. My limited exposure to skeeball is derived from how many times I've watched Kevin Smith movies. (Chasing Amy, Dogma)