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Winning an arcade game may take skill.

When people can extravagantly lose money by placing a 12-team parlay that relies on the Minnesota Timberwolves to win a game by at least 3.5 points, it feels like small potatoes that soon enough “losing to your buddy in some Dave & Buster’s arcade game” will be another way to cough up dollars.

Though explained as the Boy appropriating his favorite arcade game hero’s voice, the running commentary plays like an open mic-night reject hijacking a B movie.

Even the pinball-like arcade game Pachinko —which proliferated since the 1920s thanks to a loophole in Japanese gambling laws — is in decline, with the number of Pachinko parlors dropping from nearly 19,000 in the 1990s to barely more than 8,000 today.

Most resemble the aliens from the Space Invaders arcade game.