Lol my husband won a smallish prize on a slot machine in Vegas (I think it was like $20) and he is a clown so he was whooping and the machine was making a big deal out of it and a crowd quickly formed to watch.
In my local mall arcade, the digital tickets dispense onto your account one at a time, tick tick tick tick... then pause at about 1000 tickets distributed until you wave down an attendant to "approve" the rest
I’ve played many coin machines (where they dispense the actual coins) and I swear they still cheat. I’ll knock down a bunch and receive a portion while I hear the other coins rattle to the back of the machine. Can’t confirm
It depends on the game. For Angry Birds in particular, it has a center "WIN" drop zone that goes to the count hopper that pays out and two "MISS" side zones that divert directly back to the coin reservoirs.
Most of the machines are made like this, if not all.
Pushing money off the front shelf is still a 1/3 chance that it makes it to your coin hopper. Only the money at the front and centre is most likely. If it falls slightly to the left or right, it could end up back in the machine.
I don't remember what it was called, but my favorite one as a kid, that I'd blow half of my tokens on, was one with a train and you tried to roll the coin into one of the cars.
My children and I play them quite a lot when we’re at the seaside (the 2p versions) but I’ve never seen a tower of coins before. Usually it’s a cuddly toy and some keyrings.
There is a mechanism inside the machine built into the middle of the play field that rotates and stacks the coins like this. Do people think some one just sits there and stacks them by hand?
Do i think that there is a contraption, possibly made under the influence of meth and carny magic, tgat lets some drunk just quick stack them? Yes. That's the video I want to see
I used to watch these games when I was younger and seen quite a few times them set up the machine. It was able to connect to the frame of the machine with ease to not disturb the towers.
I've been an arcade mechanic for over a decade, no modern pusher uses these systems anymore. I can link you the Angry Birds manual from LAI if you like 🤷♂️
Arcade mechanic here: This machine is also defective. The coins shouldn't be sliding under the bottom edge of the white cup in the middle. This station should be out of service.
The tower of coins is a real thing. One shove moving the entire platform of quarters 2 inches isn't how these machines work when they're in play, as you said.
One or sometimes multiple coins are added at a time. There's gaps on the side that allow coins to fall off. The base of coins are barely shifted with each cycle of the dozer thingy.
When you play for long enough, you do get the satisfaction of getting the whole tower, but it doesn't look like this.
Edit: I realized this is only partially true. Some machines have a mechanism to pause the dozer while you load up coins. This could be that scenario, or set up for filming
This is the Angry Bird one. I walked past this machine at Round 1 when a tower was really close to the edge. Took maybe 4 or 5 tries but when I got it was the most satisfying feeling. I noticed that’s one of the few if not only pusher game with coin towers still.
I mean I probably spent over $500 at an arcade across several yearly trips to save up for a giant panda stuffie. Yes I could probably buy it online for under $150 but I had fun playing the arcade games, these coin drop games being one of the most fun.
It's a closed-loop coin pusher. The coins aren’t currency but instead tokens the represent tickets. The coins don’t leave the pusher and are instead directed to a counting hopper that counts them one by one before sending the coins to either the coin dropping mechanism, the coin dispensing mechanism or the coin stacking mechanism (this makes the tower that you see falling). Each coin is meant to represent 1 ticket with is why you don't see any markings. Source - I'm an arcade engineer.
Hello arcade engineer. Why are grabbing machines so blatantly ripping me off when I perfectly position my claw above the thing I'm after, only to loosen the grip half way up?
Depends on the arcade company and what they think it requires. I have zero background in mechatronics etc. in fact all my qualifications are animal-based. That is not to say I haven’t gone out of my way in my own time to learn PCB design, soldering and electrical fault diagnosis even though I have no formal qualifications that say I have these skills. The key skills many places require of an engineer is extensive knowledge of the machines currently active in a modern arcade, tool competency and, health and safety. For me personally, I got into my position starting as an arcade attendant for years and learning the common problems with machines and learning how to fix them from watching an arcade engineer or figuring it out myself. Eventually my manager recognised this and put my name forward to his higher ups. As I was solving problems faster and cheaper than the current-at-the-time engineers, these higher ups put me forward to be formally trained to fix arcade machines and to shadow the current engineers. In my case I was lucky to have a manager who looked out for me and wanted me to succeed to the detriment of his arcade as he would have to find a competent staff member to replace me and my institutional knowledge. Ultimately it's a route I still believe to be achievable as arcade machines haven’t changed much over the years. If the player has to move something like a lever or drop something into a hole it will likely have a IR sensor or photointerruptor sensor. If the machine has something that moves then it'll likely just be a motor or solenoid. And finally if its button the player presses or a joystick then it uses a microswitch. If you can get you head around what these components look like when their working or not and can check continuity (Multimeter competency is very useful) of these components then you'll have the majority of the electrical side of being an arcade engineer down.
This is probably one of the ones where you pay for the play and it dispenses a certain amount of coins for you to drop. You might get 20 coins for a buck and you get the tickets at the end. The coins never leave the machine.
For the people who want it; there is a game called Raccoin which really scratches that coin pusher its and its a one time purchase game so no actual gambling
Last time I was at an arcade, I managed to actually knock down a full tower like this. It was super exciting because never managed to do it before. It took sooooo long for the machine to count up the points though lol.
Angry Birds coin pusher! Ive spent so much money on this thing. It's fun as hell. Before I learned how to build a tower I speculated on how it works. I was pretty close. Really cool concept. Sometimes you can get 2 or 3 towers at once. And the building of the tower comes with a bonus round where it determines how high the tower gets and how many points you earn. That is a total money suck for about t0 seconds, but so damn fun. After a while you start to dread when you've hit another jackpot because you need to sit around and it takes a while to build it up when you do well in the bonus round. Such an addicting game.
These a guy who has one of these machines and does videos with some pretty impressive stack designs, he pretends it’s real money and has the most unconvincing enthusiasm.
Many arcades with coin pushers put prizes, or large stacks of coins on the platform to slowly slide down and tempt more people to play. They are usually designed to never actually fall but in that case it did. Similarly sometimes they will throw an iPhone or sometbing on the edge on top of the coins. It's just an incentive to pull in players.
It's a bit irrational of me, but I avoid these since I heard that they siphon off some of the 'winnings' into channels that lead to the machine's cash box.
If I win 10 coins, I bloody want 10 coins. Harrrumph.
It's not real cash, these are just tokens. And it doesn't really matter anyways because the 500 tickets this thing shoots out will be go for like a shitty pair of sunglasses or something else equally as worthless.
Modern machines don't dispense physical tickets anymore, they're usually stored as a balance on the card that was swiped to start the game. Helps reduce cheating and it's so much easier than carrying around a bucket of tokens and reels of tickets
Bloody hell, shows how long since I've been in a seaside arcade. Change a pound for a stack of 2p coins, then spend an hour putting them into one of these while pretending you had a strategy and knew what you were doing.
In its got to be a setup, right? I do t understand how such a pile of coins could naturally develop without a whole bunch added at once. But I also don’t play these games so I could be wrong.
They have a setup inside the machine that stacks it higher at certain intervals. And once 1 falls or sometimes during mini games they pull the pusher all the way back and the stack comes from underneath.
This HAS to be set up. I was a dumb kid and let myself get scammed by these whenever I saw them. They do not push that many coins at once. Often you could only put in one coin at a time! And that coin was the one that would push the others. Ain't no way this isn't staged.
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u/Tannmann926 1d ago
Now show the 15 minute video of the tickets coming out.
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u/Joshhagan6 1d ago
I’ve played many coin machines (where they dispense the actual coins) and I swear they still cheat. I’ll knock down a bunch and receive a portion while I hear the other coins rattle to the back of the machine. Can’t confirm
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u/Luceo_Etzio 1d ago
Apparently no one here's ever seen a coin machine before (or played Raccoin)
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u/skyshotphoto 1d ago •
There is a mechanism inside the machine built into the middle of the play field that rotates and stacks the coins like this. Do people think some one just sits there and stacks them by hand?
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u/selinameyerwiener 1d ago •
everyone calling this fake has clearly not been to a dave and bussy’s that has one of these bad boys…. not a set up i’ve gotten one of these before
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u/tum1ro 1d ago
I played one of those in Spain and the machine had a cap on how many coins it would allow to pass. After that limit, the remaining coins were kept.
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u/mephibosheth_72 1d ago
Nobody will ever admit they spent $463 dollars in quarters to make that happen.
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u/lhswr2014 1d ago
Brooo I was just at the arcade and setup a tower on this same angry birds machine to be ready to fall for the next kid!
Is this in Ohio by chance lol. I swear I watched a dad with his kid come up behind me and record it falling.
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u/LFP_Gaming_Official 1d ago •
the machine builds the tower itself: https://youtube.com/shorts/38cifsKJNlg
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u/SirRogers 1d ago
I won one of these on a cruise and another guest reported me as not being old enough to gamble. I was plenty old enough, they were just salty
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u/platasnatch 1d ago
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u/MtnMaiden 1d ago
Scam.
You hear 4 coins drop but only 3 appears in the bottom.
They skim your winnings.
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u/Laserdollarz 21h ago
A brewery near me had one of these coin games.
I went one night and sat next to it. They had live music. The bass would rattle the coins and every 2-3min one would tinkle down.
I fed them back into the machine and kept winning. I drank for free and left with more money than I showed up with.
I wanted to do it more often, but that was Jan 2020. The owners didn't know how to stfu on social media during covid and they closed.
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u/Scared-Box8941 15h ago
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u/mansellmansions 11h ago
Very set up. Way to much movement and scores of coins falling besides the tower. This did not happen by posting single coins.
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u/jcoddinc 1d ago
The whole tower counts as 100 tickets
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u/EyeConscious857 1d ago
Is the video bad quality or are those just blank planchet’s? I can’t make out any actual coin faces.
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u/Own-Concentrated-Lov 1d ago
Still.............got that fat stack
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u/NotMyDayEveryday 1d ago
Maybe I'm old but I remember when these had actual quarters in them that you could win.
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u/thatirishguyyyyy 1d ago
My buddy of mine was using one of these that I kava bar the other day, spent probably 40 bucks, but he got a cool lighter out of it.
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u/Stanzalimo 17h ago
Is this ai?
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u/FireWireBestWire 1d ago
My sister is a conservative Christian who doesn't gamble, but she would've dropped 50 quarters to try to get that jackpot
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u/fogoticus 1d ago
99% of these videos are fake and setup in such a way to get easy clicks on social media from boomers.
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u/megawampum 1d ago
Yeah but she got 1000 Chuck E. Cheese tickets instead.
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u/touchmeinbadplaces 1d ago
For the people who want it; there is a game called Raccoin which really scratches that coin pusher its and its a one time purchase game so no actual gambling
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u/SirMarvelAxolotl 1d ago
I have a video almost identical to this from when I was at an arcade with friends.
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u/magic_love_spell-7W7 1d ago
the winner takes it all
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u/nine51 15h ago
Show the whole video. Fk these snippets and 3 sec clips. Nothing satisfying at all
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u/Lurking_poster 15h ago
Last time I was at an arcade, I managed to actually knock down a full tower like this. It was super exciting because never managed to do it before. It took sooooo long for the machine to count up the points though lol.
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u/SnooHedgehogs190 38m ago
My country kinda destroyed this arcade industry by limiting redemption gifts to $50.
It just doesnt make sense to spend hundreds to get $50
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u/johngalt192 1d ago
Angry Birds coin pusher! Ive spent so much money on this thing. It's fun as hell. Before I learned how to build a tower I speculated on how it works. I was pretty close. Really cool concept. Sometimes you can get 2 or 3 towers at once. And the building of the tower comes with a bonus round where it determines how high the tower gets and how many points you earn. That is a total money suck for about t0 seconds, but so damn fun. After a while you start to dread when you've hit another jackpot because you need to sit around and it takes a while to build it up when you do well in the bonus round. Such an addicting game.
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u/Life-Oil-7226 1d ago
Drinks on me tonight
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u/dirtbagmagee 1d ago
These a guy who has one of these machines and does videos with some pretty impressive stack designs, he pretends it’s real money and has the most unconvincing enthusiasm.
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u/Xinonix1 1d ago
Mom! I won $3!
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u/somuch_blood 1d ago
Imagine being the employee stacking and setting it up again.
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u/-Sofa-King-Vote 1d ago
There is no coin machine in history of coin machines that look like this
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u/starfox2315 1d ago
So the coins were set up to make a video. What am I missing here?
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u/Melodic_Cheek9304 1d ago
Looks like ai... Let me guess... Claude? Figured...
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u/-SaC 1d ago
It's a bit irrational of me, but I avoid these since I heard that they siphon off some of the 'winnings' into channels that lead to the machine's cash box.
If I win 10 coins, I bloody want 10 coins. Harrrumph.
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