All kids love summer vacation, but some have more fun than others. While some kids enjoy spending time at the beach, going abroad, camping or other fun activities, 9-year-old Caine Monroy has a truly inspiring story to tell about his summer vacation.

Caine Monroy simply loves arcade games, so he spent his summer creating his own arcade - naturally, named Caine's Arcade. He basically took over his dad's auto parts store in East LA, hogging the store front with an amazing cardboard arcade. With an amazing imagination, young Monroy turned cardboard boxes into true classics like mini-soccer, pop-a-shot, and even an ingenious claw machine using a hook and some yarn.

Elaborate Cardboard Arcade

The boy thought of everything. He even included details such as a ticket dispenser for each game (he crawls into the game box and manually feeds the tickets through a slot inside the box), gift bags and a prize wall. Customers can pay $1 for two turns, or $2 for a Fun Pass, which gets them 500 turns. Of course, Munroy also thought of a security system to ensure the monthly Fun Pass is valid.

Much of his dad's business went online, leaving the east LA store with very little foot traffic. Even though he didn't have any customers, the 9-year-old did not lose his faith and continued to improve his arcade, adding increasingly more complex games.

The First Customer

Call it fate, but one day filmmaker Nirwan Mullick walked into the Smart Parts auto store looking for a used door handle for his '96 Toyota Corolla. Instead, he was blown away to find the kid's elaborate cardboard arcade. He immediately coughed up 2 bucks for a Fun Pass, and had a blast. "I didn't know that I was his first customer," said Mullick. "I ended up being the first person to buy this Fun Pass, and it's $2. Probably the best deal of my life."

Mullick was extremely impressed by the boy's cardboard arcade, so he asked the boy's father, George Munroy, for permission to make a short film about Caine's arcade. "He built all of this elaborate arcade world without having any customers, just with that sense that if you build it they will come," Mullick said. The boy's father agreed, asking Mullick only to bring a few customers to Caine's Arcade to make the kid happy.

Flashmob Ready to Play

After making the short film, Mullick went on to organize a flashmob to surprise Caine. He used Facebook and Reddit to organize the flashmob, and gave the kid the greatest surprise. The video went viral and people all over the world responded and expressed their awe. After finding a cheering crowd and lots of new customers cheering "we came to play," the young boy told his father, "Dad, this was the best day of my whole life!"

College Fund

Moreover, the filmmakers set up a scholarship fund online and the Caine Arcade Web site, Facebook and Twitter pages quickly gained thousands of followers. Fans worldwide have donated more than $80,000, and the fund is now capped at $100,000. Caine said he wants to go to college and learn how to create advanced games. "Faith in humanity, restored," reads one of the many comments in response to the inspiring video. And +1 for an amazingly supportive dad.

(reported by Alexandra Burlacu, edited by Surojit Chatterjee)