• Tilgare@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Oh yeah also all arcade games with prizes are rigged. All of them. We literally have a setting that determines how often the game will allow wins.

      One time on vacation, my little sister and I found a crane game in the game room of our hotel that was clearly over tuned - basically every button press was another win, it was great. We still remember it fondly. A stupid thing, but even at that age we knew these are usually scams and we we’re stoked to just basically get cheap toys.

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        2 years ago

        Yes. You have to have a license to charge people money to play those games.

        Otherwise you would have seen a ton of arcades open already

        Edit: I only know this because I asked a guy who ran one. His machines were in pretty bad shape and I inquired why he didn’t just do as you thought.

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      I worked in an arcade in the 90s. Wow have things changed. I bet pinball games are not easily fixable anymore either.