Arcade Simulator

The **Arcade Simulator** is one of the games in the Arcade. In this game, you enter another arcade with 3 games in it (all games are from 1970s), and you must play them to collect money and unlock the exit. It costs 5 coins to play.

## Controls

* Use the "Move" stick to move forward and back, and to turn left and right.
* Use the "Action" button to interact with objects (pick up dollars, play games, etc)
* Use the "Pause" button to pause the games if you need to drink or pee.

## Layout

The in-game arcade is a small building standing in the midst of a dark empty space. You enter the building automatically in the beginning of the game, but you can exit and wander outside. If you step out of the illuminated area in front of the building, a count from 10 starts, and if you don't return to the light when it reaches zero, the game ends.

The main room contains 3 game machines, a coin change machine, a vending machine selling soda, and a vending machine selling the key to the final area. There are also some useless items like tables, chairs, trash bins, and light switch.

The corridor in the back leads to the washroom and to the stairs to the basement. It also has a locked door to the secret room behind a concession window.

The washroom has an urinal and a stall with a toilet, as well as two sinks.

The basement has a big door which leads to the final area.

## Money

You start the game with 3 dollars. You can also find 4 more:

* Outside, behind the left corner of the building (visible in the title screen). The countdown starts in that area, so you must be quick. Approach the dollar so the "Pick up" text appears on the screen, quickly press the Action button, and return to the building.
* On the counter of the concession window in the back wall of the main room.
* In the washroom, on the toilet flush tank.
* In the basement in the end of the corridor, on the floor.

Each dollar can be exchanged to 4 quarter coins in the change machine. You don't need dollars specifically for anything, so you can exchange them all.

You need quarters to start games, buy soda, and buy the key to the final area. You earn additional quarters by playing the games.

## Soda and urine

While you play, your soda level gradually decreases. If it reaches zero, there will be a sound and the meter will start blinking (similar to the Hunger meter in the main Sneaky Sasquatch game). If it stays there for some time, the game ends. You must buy a soda from the vending machine (4 quarters) to refill it. One drink refills the soda level to the full.

After you drink soda, you urine level starts to fill. If it reaches the maximum, there will be a sound and the meter will start blinking. If it stays there for some time, the game ends. You need to go to the washroom and use the toilet or the urinal to reset it to zero. Wash your hands after peeing.

If you need to do any of this while you are in the middle of a game, press Pause button. After taking care of your urge, you can return and continue the game.

## Games

### Ping Pong

Ping Pong costs 1 quarter to play. You control the left paddle (white line) by moving the stick up and down, your opponent controls the right one. A ball (white square) moves back and forth. You must not allow the ball to miss your paddle, or the game will end.

You start with a long paddle, but each time the ball hits it, it becomes a bit shorter, until it becomes the same length as your opponent's. This makes the game progressively harder.

A grey square often appears on the screen, and you earn a quarter when the ball hits it. You also earn a quarter when your opponent misses the ball.

When the ball hits the upper part of the paddle, it deflects it up, and vice versa.

### Snake

Snake costs 3 quarters to play. You control the head of the snake (white line) by pushing the stick. The head can only change directions 90 degrees. The body follows the path of the head.

You must eat squares which spawn on the screen. Each time you do, a new square spawns, the snake becomes longer, and you earn a quarter.

The game ends if the snake head hits the edge of the screen or the snake's own body.

### Brick Breaker

Brick Breaker costs 2 quarters to play. You control the paddle in the bottom by moving the stick left and right. The square bounces up and down and breaks bricks on contact. Grey bricks require two hits to break. You gradually earn quarters as you break bricks.

When the ball hits the left part of the paddle, it deflects the ball left, and vice versa.

In contrast to other games, you must miss the ball 3 times to lose.

* Level 1 consists of a single line of blocks
* In levels 2 to 5, the bricks are in a shape of a rectangle, and a digit is revealed as you break them. These digits are different each time you restart the Arcade Simulator, but they are the same if you restart the Brick Breaker (within the same Arcade Simulator playthrough).
* Level 6 is shaped like a flying Saucer.
* Levels 7 and beyond are randomized.

## Basement

You need to buy the key for 50 quarters to enter the locked door in the basement. You will enter a room with a machine in the center and three colored wires leading to three other rooms. Each of that rooms is connected to one of the games upstairs.

### Yellow room

The Yellow room is connected to Ping Pong. To pass it, you must play Ping Pong, and pause when the ball is in the lower left part of the screen. A large faint grey square appears on the screen when the ball is in the right position, representing the pressed pressure pad. Then the ball downstairs will be on the pressure pad too. You will hear the sound of a door opening if you pause in the right moment.

After the door opens, press the button in the next room.

### Green room

The Green room is connected to Snake. You must play the game upstairs, eat at least one square, and then pause when the snake is stretched from the top edge of the screen to the bottom. That will make a bridge downstairs.

Cross the bridge and press the button on the other side.

### Red room

The Red room is connected to Brick Breaker. You need to enter 4 digits which you reveal in levels 2-5 of the game upstairs. The digits are not recorded anywhere, so you must remember them yourself.

Pause each counter when the digit is right. If you got the digit wrong, you can start the counter and stop it again. The code is different each time you start a new Arcade Simulator game.

Note that the shapes of digits in the Brick Breaker and on these counters are slightly different.

After the door opens, press the button in the next room.

## Challenges

There are 4 challenges you may complete for additional score and tickets.

* To complete "On Board Rocket", be upstairs when the final countdown ends. This adds 1500 to the final score.
* To complete "Good Hygiene", wash your hands each time after using the toilet, and after picking up the dollar on the toilet. This adds 1000 to the final score.
* To complete "Found All Dollars", collect all 4 dollars lying around. This adds 500 to the final score.
* To complete "Found Secret", go to the green (snake) basement room, turn left and go till the end. Find the writing on the wall saying "don't fall off??". Fall off the ledge near it, and you will be teleported to the locked room upstairs, where the secret is. The door to the corridor will be now open. This adds 2000 to the final score.

The secret is

a dancing Sasquatch.

## Finishing the game

When you activate the machine in each puzzle room downstairs, it lights up the colored wire leading to the machine in center of the basement.

When all wires are activated, press "Launch" button in the central room.

You will see a surprise animation:

the arcade building flies into the sky like a space rocket.

Then you will see the screen with your completed challenges and the final score.

Even if you didn't complete the challenges, you will win the game, and that will be recorded in the stats book.

## Scoring and tickets

The end score is a sum of:

* 2 score for each remaining quarter
* 1500 for "On Board Rocket"
* 1000 for "Good Hygiene"
* 500 for "Found All Dollars"
* 2000 for "Found Secret"

Unlike all other Arcade games, there is no high scores to compete against.

You earn the following number of Prize Tickets:

* 1 ticket for each 4 earned quarters (above 12 you start with)
* 100 tickets for winning the game
* 30 tickets for "On Board Rocket"
* 20 tickets for "Good Hygiene"
* 10 tickets for "Found All Dollars"
* 40 tickets for "Found Secret"

Therefore, completing the game and all challenges will give you slightly more than 200 tickets.

## Trivia

* The games are inspired by *Pong*, *Snake* genre, and *Breakout*.
* There is a red writing on the wall of the bottomless pit in the snake room, where the teleport to the secret room is. It says "Sasquatch wuz here".
* While normal Arcade games are games within a game, the games within the simulator are games within a game within a game.

## References

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Pong
2. ↑ Wikipedia:Snake (video game genre)
3. ↑ Wikipedia:Breakout (video game)