Well at first both of the cats liked to get on top of the playfield and try and catch the balls mid-game. Finally got them to stop doing that so much, and now one of them sometimes gets onto her back legs and tries to bat at my hands while I play, and finally the cats developed a knack for hearing when a coin door was about to be opened. So much so that I have to shut the door to the arcade when I'm going to work on a game. Well, today I was preoccupied and forgot to shut the arcade door. I opened a coin door for a second to get the key to open up the backbox, unlocked backbox, replaced key, shut coin door... long story short, 20 minutes later I heard meowing and couldn't find the cat--- yep, shut inside the machine.

Both cats have had to be fished out of machines a couple of times before we realized that this was going to be an ongoing problem not solved by spray bottles (after they are pulled out of course). Apparently I'm a slow learner with this one. Luckily no damage has been done yet, and I think I have finally had the "close arcade door when working on machines" lesson drilled into my brain.

The main culprit also thinks she's a topper.

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Thanks! Glad(?) to see it's not just mine. It seems like all of the loud noises would keep them away, but it doesn't seem to slow them down a bit.