Caine’s Arcade Video Brings Creative Boy Fame
22 April 2012
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
An Internet video called “Caine’s Arcade” is one of the latest videos to go viral, or grow wildly popular. The video has been viewed more than five million times on Vimeo and YouTube since April ninth.
The video tells the story of nine-year old Caine McCoy in Los Angeles, California. The little boy used cardboard boxes, scissors, tape and other things to build a game center, or arcade, in his father’s used-car-parts store.
Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was the first to pay to play Caine’s games. He is also responsible for the “Caine’s Arcade” video.
SOUND FROM “CAINE’S ARCADE”:
NIRVAN MULLICK: “I met Cain randomly. I had to get a door handle for my ninety-six 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.’ Cool. How many turns you get with a fun pass? He goes ‘five hundred turns for a fun pass.’ I got a fun pass.”
“Caine’s Arcade” has basketball and soccer, game tokens and tickets, and colorful bags of cotton candy. It even has one of those machines where you try to seize a prize with a mechanical claw. Like most arcades, that game is hard to win. But, at two dollars for a fun pass worth five hundred plays, it’s well worth the effort.
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