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*ding* Tickets for white! (FUCK YEAH!)
Marth
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Colorama is the best ticket redemption game. You guess the color that the ball will land on, and if you get it right you get however many tickets correspond to the color. Also, the game keeps going even if no one is playing, so you can watch Colorama for as long as you want. There’s no downside!
Thrilling details/better pictures here!
Technically you could choose red, green, or blue, but if you do that you’re a pussy and should step away from the machine. Yellow is acceptable if you’re not feeling too lucky that day. But any sane person will choose white every damn time. Play hard or don’t play at all! You will win eventually. It’s also usually one of the cheapest ticket games in the arcade. And that delightful song will stay in your head long after you leave.
Talk about other ticket games that you think are cool (like there’s anything better than Colorama). Or talk about how ticket games are a complete waste of money because the prizes you can get with less than 100 tickets are shit and all the better ones are more than 1,000 tickets and fuck I’m not gonna play that much Colorama for an RC car.
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ski-ball is pretty cool?
ski-ball is good
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that basketball one
going to a 2 dollar shop and getting the same junk without spending $25 to get the number of tickets required to buy some damn photo frame or 'super lcd watch'
And I don't drink so it is even more strange
Fucking theater sold their virtual on machine though!
How can you be terrible at it, there is literally zero skill involved
And I put 120 dollars into this machine trying to win a GBA out of it.
Then my brother goes down there with a 20, and comes back up with a shiny new GBA!
Man I was too young to play slots.
Which is why it's my favorite, because most other ticket games that involve even a small amount of skill are horribly rigged against you. That, and the colors and music keep my attention.
It's better than the Deal or No Deal game that costs at least a dollar and is so fucking slow.
It is also the only drug winners use.
just a spinning light you hit a button to stop with corresponding ticket amounts
if you hit jackpot you get a ticket for every time someone has failed to get jackpot
I agree that Colorama is better yes, but for some odd reason, I always win 400 tickets on Deal or No Deal
I am magic
EDIT: And at Jackpot!, I never lose at that
But my easiest 'win-ticket' games are the ones where you drop the coin / quarter down onto a shelf, that has a bar pushing back and forth. If your quarter makes enough of a difference, the displacement drops more quarters / tokens onto a second shelf, and that pushing bar may drop more into the winner bucket. And there's a Pachinko version of this, but it's all fuck-you-in-the-ass because it takes any skill out of it. What little skill you may have had gives way to so many asshole pegs.
And there's this other one I've only seen in the mall, that was basically a big spinning disc under a dome. There were four metal arms, and the only point they touched on the disc was a point about the size of a penny. Kind of like a giant record player. And when you put in the quarter and pushed the token, it would swipe to the edge, and go back. All on the board were these tokens for like "5 tickets", and even more "10 tickets", also 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and a very few 100s. And me and my friends spent basically the entire day cleaning the tokens out of it the first weekend they put it up. Apparently they put they were putting in too many, but even only half filled it was really effortless and cheap for what you could 'win'. We redeemed about 200 bouncy balls and accidentally dropped them down the escalator on a practically dead-business weekday in October. So memorizing.
But still, guys, Hydro Thunder!
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Once I figured out the timing I fucking rocked that game's ass
I also remember when me and my cousin were little tykes, they had the Hungry Hungry hippos game, and it was a competition but the winner got tickets. And when she won, the machine just didn't stop putting out tickets. Finally got to a few thousand before it just ran out of tickets. Think she got one of those frames with the different colored sand inside that you would flip and it would sloooooowly make a pretty picture. It was usually a mountain. Or a pointy black and white boob.
3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
That goddamn thing never paid out any tickets.
If you can keep track of where the good case is when the game shuffles them, then yeah it's not that hard to win. Unless you actually are magic.
And yes, fuckin' Hydro Thunder! And Arctic Thunder, too.
This is my Lord and Savior.
I shall not further want.
3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
That was one of the reasons why I'm banned from the Family Fun Center.
E: Haha, fantastic Metalbourne.
3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
I think you need to get 9 or so in a row (three of each type) if you want to get the top prize.
Things are fucking rigged as shit. I had a friend stop it too late one time on the last brick, then just a bit too early, then he did it spot on as soon as the block was in the correct space, and it skipped the space put the block to the other side and dropped it down. Fucking bullshit not giving us the best prize machine.
They pay out depending on how much money has been put in.
Also have you see the barber cut arcade machines? Objective is to cut the wire holding up things like DS's or the like with this special scissor machine. Problem is you have to guess the distance to the wire and it cuts a very very small section.
Have you seen the fist of the north star ones?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ng3j3N4nzM&feature=related
Looks cool. The one I'm thinking of had you punch one big target and based on how hard you punched it you advanced or didn't.
When I was 15 there was a crane game in the local theater I would go to, every time I went I would spend about 20 bucks trying for something.
I eventually won a teddy bear wearing a kimono.
Steam
3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
I'll even play that Star trek Voyager one