Coast Starlight, You Had Me at Hello

You know what's in the spot normally reserved for the baggage storage room on the Coast Starlight train down to LA? A fucking arcade room. I almost lost my shit when I saw it.It's really kind of amazing. There are four old arcade games just sitting in there, and if you think that after finding it I didn't spend the next hour playing my way across the entire country in the original Cruisin' USA, then, well, I guess you don't know me very well. I don't think I had ever played that whole game before, 'cause I was pleased to find that after making it through the Washington D.C. course you get the following "political cartoon" featuring Bill Clinton in a hot tub:


Honestly, if you asked me to make a list of things that I would classify as "pleasant surprises," I'm pretty sure an arcade room on a train would make the top 10, even if it doesn't have a game less than 15 years old.