THE VIDEO SHELF · rigged arcade games
This Arcade Game is a SCAM (I have proof)
Mark Rober builds a machine that plays the Cyclone arcade game with perfect timing and discovers the game is rigged so that perfect play still loses. The video explains the physics and electronics tricks behind carnival-style skill games.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in threads on rigged arcade machines and gambling-like games as the clearest demonstration that skill games can be tuned to be unwinnable.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mark Rober
- Topic
- rigged arcade games
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Back in the legacy world of arcades and carnivals, Mark Rober did some nice videos about the analog/physic and electronic tricks of scam games: [LINK] [VIDEO] It's quite a problem that all these gambling scams are (to more or lesser extent) regulated in geographic jurisdictions, …
gowld on Hacker News · 2019-01
In YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site> You aren't just using skills and competing with physics. You are competing with software that is affecting the outcome. Mark Rober covered this in a pretty decent YouTube video: [VIDEO]
pavel_lishin on Hacker News · 2019-03
In The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave and Buster's
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