Big American Party! Yes, we all knew I'd go back, and it was frustrating when I did so (frantically, at 7:30am the next morning...) because the easy grabs of Egon and Mr. Stay Puft and even the Slimers had already vanished. What remained were some dismal chances at buried Ray's or a tantalizingly impossible Egon and Winston stuffed in a far distant corner.
I seem to recall, from years past, that the truly unfair claw machines would allow you to just move in each direction once, and then the claw would drop. I guess I should be thankful that this one had a 20 second timer, and I could fiddle with the alignment as much as I wanted, though given the limp claw it didn't much matter! The only way I was successful in scoring Winston was that the back corner was really high up with stuff, and the end of the claw caught under his arm (a convenient snag-point, it turns out) while I was aiming for Egon, and dragged him most of the way back to the chute! Having a good feeling about things from there on out, I had the presence of mind to turn on the ol' video phone, which we can now all enjoy for posterity!
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