The difference between boys and girls.

Today, Mom and Dad took Sean and I to Golfland to play in the arcade. My favourite games there are pinball machines, Galaga, any Time Crisis, and The House of the Dead series, in that order too.
Pinball went rather smoothly. On the first machine I tried, the bumpers would not bounce the pinball. On the second machine, the pinball got stuck and I went for someone to get it unstuck; He followed me to the machine, tapped it on the side, and the ball popped right out! He gave me a free game too (I had lost mine because I tried to fix it myself and the machine went TILT). I won four free games as a result of playing that gift. Needless to say, I was quite smug, even though pinball is almost forgotten.
Next, I played Galaga. It costs a quarter more to play Galaga at Golfland than it does to play Galaga at the Century Theater in Oakridge because it's an older machine, I guess. Also because it's older, you can only fire two bullets at a time, unlike the Oakridge one that lets you fire as many bullets as fast as you can mash the button. All this means I play worse, and when I play worse, this happens:

"Number of Hits: 39/ Bonus: 3900"

That's what the screen says when you've played a challenge stage and at the end of the stage, you've shot thirty-nine of the forty enemies on the screen. The difference between hitting 39 enemies and hitting 40 enemies is that you only get 3900 points instead of 10,000. I was rather dissatisfied with myself.
About Time Crisis, I will be brief. I tried to play it, but it only counted one of the three tokens I put in to play. I pressed the red button to give me my tokens back, but it failed so I walked away.
One of the guns on The House of the Dead was broken, the first one I used. Undeterred, I noticed that someone had left me a free game, so I used the blue gun. However, when I arrived at the first boss, Mom walked over to me and I died.
Then we left Golfland.