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They got pinball? I'll play some pinball.

Drink more then go play some racing games. They are far more hilarious when drunk.

I am 100% making fun of him and/or clapping deliberately off-beat

I made up a game called Deep Spy Penetration to play whenever I'm drunk and bored indoors. The goal is to get into as many areas of the building as possible without getting told to leave.

Rules:

1. Don't be an asshole. Don't steal stuff, break anything or move barricades.
2. Don't lie to get access. Asking is allowed.
3. Opening doors with easily missed "no entry" signs is allowed, anything the average person might not see. Don't open doors with blatant warnings.
4. If you get caught you lose.
5. If you set off an alarm you mega-lose.

Drinking and watching since the only way my SO is playing a dance game is at my behest and I’m not looking away from a miracle.

Are you kidding? The only thing more busted than that machine are his MOVES! I'm drinking until I get the warm fuzzy tingly fluttery feeling in my chest and then I'm gonna watch him so much more intently...

And I'm gonna be cheering for him and making catcalls at him the whole time :3

Is there a Simpsons or X-Men machine from the 90s?

Wait for him to pull off a sick combo and go "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

You're asking what to do at an arcade?

Tease him enough to distract him.

Of course, drink more, but also, QBert. Fucking love me some QBert.

Drink more.

Play Tapper while drinking!!!

What other games are there in the arcade?

Drink more, dance on the 2nd player pad with more freedom than he can since my side doesn't work. Insist that I won. Say, "it's ok, the bar isn't the only thing you'll be humping* tonight" with a wink, in an effort to go home because idk what else to do in this barcade.

*I call the folks that play DDR while holding onto the rail bar humpers. Idk if this is common.

Watch. Nerds playing DDR in front of people is basically their mating dance.

If I’m not interested in being at the arcade, I’ll just be a drunken idiot and start harassing everyone. I’ll act as if I’ve just had a half a bottle of vodka. Eventually, my husband notices that it’s time to go home.

You should ask this on lemmynsfw 😁

Mad dog Mcree all the way!

Otherwise:

Silent scope

Being that I'm the husband who has drunkenly tried the dancing games, I would say my wife is finding the Rockband exhibit. So we don't really go to arcades. We do sometimes stumble into the game room at conventions. And someone always has a modded Xbox 360 and Rockband 3 set up with all the anime songs on it. And you can generally just step up and play. When a lot of people want to play, there's a queue and a system for doing it, but most times we go, you kinda just glance toward the person singing or drumming or whatever you want to do, and they pass off to you when they're done with that song, or ask if it's cool if they do one more, maybe that's their pick they waited for or something. Anyway, I suck at arcade games, so I'm grabbing the Rockband mic. No one wants to sing in public, especially if it's in Japanese and we don't know it. The lyrics are described in romaji (e.g. "arigatou gozaimasu" for ありがとうございました which is to say "thank you very much" and is pronounced something like "ah-dee-gah-tow go-z-eye-moss"). As someone who can pronounce maybe 10-20% of romaji correctly and can kinda wing the rest... it's fun. Plus we turn the mics down and the vocal track up, so if you mess up, you don't ruin the song for the onlookers (you can do the opposite and only hear the vocalist, for example).

I suggest you find a game to play

Claw machines.

Ice Cold Beer. While he's distracted, the rest of our tokens are going in the ice cold beer machine.

Let me ask my wife and report back

Play one of the other rhythm games. Preferably Wacca or Chunithm.

I would totally join in the dancing game with my wife unless she said no, since I'm terrible at them. If so, then I would probably play retro fighting games or anything else that catches my eye.

I ponder my timeline and how drunk I must be to now have a husband while trying to be supportive.

Tell him that I want two hundred dollars in either tokens, quarters, or credits (whatever the machine takes) or I expose this loveless sham of a marriage. I'm then going to fuck off to play Galaga and Centipede.

Fighters. Street Fighter 2 Turbo? Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3?