Atem vs. The arcade
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-gi-oh!, Time Crisis, or Tetris.
Setting: Domino City, just after "Death T" (I know they actually did go to the arcade about this time, but this is a different story)
Note: For all you non-Yu-gi-oh fanatics, dark Yugi, Atem, the pharaoh, the other Yugi, and Yugi's dark half are all the same character. He was an Egyptian pharaoh who died as a teen, put his soul into the Millennium puzzle, and possessed Yugi when Yugi finished the Millennium puzzle. He looks just like Yugi, but taller, with sharper eyes and the gold part of his hair is positioned a little different.
One day, Yugi had a great idea. He was going to go play at the arcade! He knew all arcades were impossible to beat games that took your money like crazy, but he now had a secret weapon: the "Other Yugi" that had been inside his head since he had rebuilt the Millennium Puzzle and whose presence he and his friends had just discovered. After explaining the idea to his "dark half", he went off to the arcade, ready to play and win.
Along the way, Yugi met Jounichi (Joey) and convinced him to come along too. When they reached the arcade, Jounichi jumped when Yugi instantaneously grew about two feet, and then relaxed, knowing it was just the "other Yugi" coming out. "Hey! Let's go play Time Crisis!" He said. The pharaoh nodded calmly. "Okay." The two exchanged their money for tokens, and then walked over to Time Crisis 2. Jounichi explained how the shooting game worked, and they chose cooperative play. Within five minutes, Jounichi had used all of his money and ran out of health for the last time. Atem had yet to be hit. Atem let Jounichi borrow a few of his tokens and continue. A few minutes later, Jounichi had used up all of Atem's tokens except one. Time Crisis takes two to continue. "Aw man," he complained. "This just ain't my day, See you around Yug'," Jounichi left. Atem continued, still on his first set of tokens.
After about half an hour, Yugi/Atem finished the final battle of the game, still with full health. They had just one token left. Yugi had a suggestion. "Let's play pinball!" "Okay," the pharaoh agreed. Yugi explained the game, and they started. An hour later Yugi discovered his problem. The only way to finish a pinball game was to lose. Atem couldn't do that! Atem had already maxed out the points and was still playing. Yugi knew he had to do something fast. "Look out behind us!" he told the pharaoh. As the pharaoh spun their head around and looked around, he lost concentration on his hands. Yugi grabbed the machine and yanked up. When the pharaoh spun around, the screen said "Tilt" and the ball was falling toward the hole. He quickly pressed the flipper button that would have saved the ball, but it wasn't responding. In desperation, he grabbed the side of the machine closest to him and yanked. The ball rolled away from the hole. He dropped the machine again and started tapping the flippers. They still wouldn't respond. The ball fell away, away, away... It fell into the hole. Atem looked at the machine, shocked. Yugi looked at the machine, relieved. Then their mental expressions switched as the screen said "Ball lost, 98 more to go". Yugi had forgotten about the extra ball target!
Five hours later, the arcade started to close. Atem was still playing pinball. The store owner came over and asked him to leave. He refused. The store owner told him to leave. He said he couldn't. The store owner unplugged the game from the wall, causing the screen to go blank and the flippers to stop working. Atem left.
A few days later, Yugi and Atem were looking at video games at a game store. Atem asked, "What is Tetris?"