Jay Rine, 35, sometimes has trouble remembering his wedding anniversary, but he can recall with clarity the placement of the arcade machines at Lincoln's long-closed Cosmic Comics and Sluggo's.

He remembers riding his bike to Dairy Queen to play "Rygar" for as long as he could on the one quarter his older brother would give him. He remembers "the joystick on the 'Rastan' machine was so loose on the left that you really had to move into it to get it to lean," he said. "I remember stupid things like that."

He remembers as a kid watching the NBC sitcom "Silver Spoons," which starred Ricky Schroder as a rich kid who has everything. "And (Ricky) had these two arcade games," Rine said. "And I thought, 'What a jerk. That's impossible. I could never have one of those for myself.'"

Anyone who thinks dreams don't come true should take a look at the basement of Rine's Waverly home, where dreams have really come true.

About three years back, Rine converted his basement office into an arcade, gradually filling it with his childhood favorites. He has a "Rygar" and an "Alpine Skiing," a Nintendo "PlayChoice" and a deafeningly loud "Hyperball" pinball machine. And many, many others. He's got a storage locker in town packed with parts and cabinets and games he can't fit into his garage and basement.