My Arcade Collectors in the Making.....

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So as I have mentioned in other posts I have 3 children;
Madison 4, Kade 2 and Kayson 1.

They have all been around the arcade industry since before they were born. My daughter would always kick around a lot and the only way I could get her to calm down was to go sit next to a game and the sounds would quiet her. She used to fall asleep as an infant in the back room of our location while we would work on our equipment.

Madison, our self proclaimed "Pinball Princess", missed the deadline this year for kindergarten and so we are putting her in preschool. She is so super excited to go and has been practicing her letters, numbers and shapes to show her teacher how smart she is. Yesterday she brought up some shapes that she had cut out to show me. She had a star, square, so on and so forth, then the Turret Tower. I tried to explain that it was a game and not a shape but she insisted. It was really cute, she drew on the details and everything. I told her I didn't think her teacher would know that shape.....she proceeded to ask me, "Well what kind of teacher is she if she doesn't know her shapes?"

I have those large Sterlite storage containers to store parts, decorations, etc. in and Kade decided that he wanted his own R360. He was rolling around in it and pretending to buckle himself him. He said this is MY R360. It was really cute. We took video of it but my husband won't let me put it on my FB or anything because he only has on a diaper. It will be a perfect video for when he is 16 and brings a girl home.

Kayson is our little tech. He climbs on the counters after being told not to multiple times and plays with the voltmeter and whatever board is on there at the time. The funny thing is at only 1 1/2 he knows how to turn it on and basically what to do with it. That's usually how we know he is back on the counter is from the beeping sounds from the volt meter.

Any other child would never think of the Turret Tower as a shape, a storage bin as an R360, or know basically just what to do with a volt meter. It's funny how children that are raised around different things "just know". When the neighbor kids come over to play with them they are always in ahh of our garage full of games and things. Maddy always asks them, "What you don't have arcades?" as if to say, well what is wrong with your parents.

I sure love those little munchkins! Even though they make another mess right after I get the first one cleaned up. It's those funny little things they do that put a smile on my face and it sure makes their Dad proud!
 
Kids are great! Our daughter is 4 in oct. and my wife is due with our son on oct. 12. I can't wait to meet him and share my life with him. Jeez I've got 40 years of stuff to tell him about! My daughter loves to play down in the arcade, if not on a game she'll play with a toy car or my micronauts and pac-man lunchbox!
 
Yeah your wife was telling me about it on her "hello" thread. CoNgRaTs! You will love it! Daughters are wonderful but for a guy to have a son to share life experiences with is really special. It will be mini gorfchampion! Post pics when he's born. I love babies! Have you thought of names yet?
 
Yeah your wife was telling me about it on her "hello" thread. CoNgRaTs! You will love it! Daughters are wonderful but for a guy to have a son to share life experiences with is really special. It will be mini gorfchampion! Post pics when he's born. I love babies! Have you thought of names yet?


We haven't decided on names yet...but we'll get there. I hope the boy(or my daughter) can beat my games scores someday. It will be a challenge that's for sure!!
 
Call your little dude Cadet Mccann. That way there you can always use a Gorf reference on him when he's older!
 
My10 year old son came over to me a couple of days ago and said "Dad, the top of the screen on the Multi-Williams bending. I think it needs a cap kit." I was like "Wha?" how did he know it needs a cap kit? It goes to show me that even if I don't thinkmy kids are listening to what I am doing or saying they really are.
 
Kids and games

This is my son at 17 months. I have posted this pic before. He is 2.5 now. He does not play MC much anymore. He is all about Robotron now.

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Clanggedin - Soon he will be showing you how to repair boards. Did you have him take a look at that Juke? HA HA How's that coming anyways?

7146aaron - He is cute! It helps keep them occupied. I must say, he has great taste in games.
 
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