What's the worst arcade game you've ever played?

>obligatory viewing
>e-celebs realise that ticket based arcade machines have a fixed payout
Are they just realising this like 30 years later or something? This shit is literally IN THE OPERATORS MANUAL for adjusting winning percentages even for mechanical crane claw machines where you can even adjust grip strength. This is nothing new and could have saved 8 minutes of your life if they just read the fucking manual first.

Hell yeah most idiot places put the machines right next to a door. Made it super easy.

>spend like 20 bucks on this shit because the final prize is an xbox 360
>get to the last box, stop it perfectly

>after a short delay it moves over and makes me lose
it had to be rigged right

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>$40 at Universal Studios
City walk, right?
Holy fuckballs, are you me?

They are definitely rigged. So are all claw games

No, in the shitty arcade that's next to the Mummy ride.

Yeah, this shit was completely rigged.
That's on the same levels as casinos.

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Not me, I had my innate sense of honor to consider *adjusts collar*

They're not rigged. They just require a minimum amount before triggering the drop. It still takes the skill to reach that point.

that's exactly how it works. basically the game will always skip the top block from landing unless a certian 'game played threshold' has been reached beforehand. The default value is 400, but it can be configured by the machine owner. Unless the number of games where the major prize wasn't won has exceeded that value, you can not and wil not win.

Not even. Casinos only have to be SLIGHTLY rigged to make money. That piece of shit is rigged to have you lose 95% of the time.

>They're not rigged.
>explains how they are rigged.

I won a 3DS in one of these things once, back when it was still new.

Yes it does that, it's like a slot machine in that it has a fixed percentage of winning payouts, if you're not close to that number then you won't get it. Also to actually mess up your timing there are actually two extra "columns" that aren't shown on the screen that the block disappears into when you get higher.

You can beat flamin' finger by using a napkin to alleviate the friction burns you'd get for going fast enough to complete it on time.

The user is just wording it poorly but I understand what he's trying to say. You can win at the game but only if the game has had a sufficient amount of paid playtime to warrant you to win.

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This was you.

What's an arcade

>lose 95% but when you win you win back the 95% anyways
What did they mean by that? Neither of us profit.

No, I thought that would be stupid.

I remember 20 bucks in quarters trying to get a DS from a crane game at Great America and failing. I was like 14 at time. Looking back now, I'm amazed at how I accepted it because any other kid would've been crying.

Omg OP sucks at skee ball Jesus Christ scrub git gud it’s literally 10/10 better than everything else it’s skyrim with balls

Cheers from Santa Cruz

I was half expecting the kid to bean someone with a Skee ball near the end

>Great America
Wow I'm surprised someone actually knows it exists

The mystical Bay Area and Silicon Valley; so few have lived to tell the tales of the legendary theme park.

No because i'm not some fucking unrefined fucking peasant to walk onto the machine.

Besides the real trick was to do this with the outside machines in the lineup with a good buddy. That way when you roll the ball up your accomplice would stand next to the machine and then take the ball that's rolled up to them and place them in to the ideal scoring hole without any sneaking suspicions. Doing this from the right side machine is generally the better easier payout since you can hit the big score in the top right corner and depending on the layout in the arcade you can sometimes just block the view with your body anyway if you're the dude in control of the scoring though sometimes you would have to do it from the left side becaues there was no better alternative from the layout. There's a reason they have those cages there now.

No but it's one of those ones that don't get mentioned like most amusement parks because it's not Disney

Never played it and can't find the image but there was some arcade game that was an arm wrestling machine that would break people's arms sometimes. That's gotta suck