No I didn't steal it mom and I don't have a receipt.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:25 am 0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puT64gjbgmc

I have no idea how a stacker machine plays, but if that prize is real, what a great win!

Rib · Post by **Rib** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:39 am 0

Looks faked. There is probably some law in America limiting the prizes allowed by those machines. But the main reasons are the clever hiding of the machine showing what the prizes should be "win a cuddly toy" etc. Plus he has a bit of an audience, god knows why for a kid playing a crane game. Something doesn't feel right.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:01 am 0

Aye, it does look a bit dodgy. They are all going "what is it? what have you won?" then the prize (in full view) is dropped. Then again, maybe the crowd was there because someone was filming and what the grand prize was.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:48 am 0

It's not a crane game, it's Stacker, and in the machines I've seen the grand prizes are often pretty crazy. Mobile phones and stuff like that.

PeeknPoke Lee · Post by **PeeknPoke Lee** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:15 am 0

The link didnt work for me (at the mo)
but my kids played a Stacker machine just yesterday! and one of the kids won a personal radio!
There was in the machine also a stack of DS games even an Ipod to win!

Lee

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:39 am 0

Nobody ever wins Stacker. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:55 am 0

Dude, fuck dude, that's so fuck dude, dude i fucking love you, fucking props dude.

American kids

Neon360 · Post by **Neon360** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:54 pm 0

DTB wrote: American kids

planetoftheclams · Post by **planetoftheclams** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:00 pm 0

Nobody ever wins Stacker. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.

My brother has one of those machines in his place of work. He kept an eye on it and developed a feel for when it would give out a major prize. He put 3 pounds in it and got a DS Lite.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:25 pm 0

There's one in the Swansea multi cinema.

Basically the more the stacks go up the more a certain X random time is
added as a delay between your button pressing and the actual stop, so it's
a bit weird you should know in advance when to push it.

Prices can vary, I saw cell phones and some other stuff but never anything
so valuable as a Wii.

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:41 pm 0

Good grief. What an incredibly small and profane vocabulary that youngster has. Can I suggest that all of those machines are re-stocked with the Complete Works of Shakespear as a matter of the utmost urgency? Because if that film clip is representative of the world's most important nation, the human race is doomed unless they are educated properly in future.

Bane · Post by **Bane** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:26 am 0

seen one in my local cinema (cineworld) and they have 80gig i pods up for grabs so it aint faked in that sense and i also seen a digital camera as well and like someone said stacker games are imposable to win hence the high quality prizes

ChunkyMonkey · Post by **ChunkyMonkey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:38 pm 0

Viscount Charles wrote:Good grief. What an incredibly small and profane vocabulary that youngster has. Can I suggest that all of those machines are re-stocked with the Complete Works of Shakespear as a matter of the utmost urgency? Because if that film clip is representative of the world's most important nation, the human race is doomed unless they are educated properly in future.

I bet he can spell 'Shakespeare' though.

toxibunny · Post by **toxibunny** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:49 pm 0

ChunkyMonkey wrote:
Viscount Charles wrote:Good grief. What an incredibly small and profane vocabulary that youngster has. Can I suggest that all of those machines are re-stocked with the Complete Works of Shakespear as a matter of the utmost urgency? Because if that film clip is representative of the world's most important nation, the human race is doomed unless they are educated properly in future.
I bet he can spell 'Shakespeare' though.

can't we all?

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:31 pm 0

There are some very expensive prizes in there, because Stacker machines are rigged somehow -- it's more than just the random time offset, there's some mechanical fiddlybits in there to make it damn near impossible to win unless the planets align just right for you.

They're banned from carnivals and shows now because of some gambling law, but movie theatres and such can still have them if they redefine them as "arcade machines," although those machines only carry DVDs of second-run movies purchased in bulk.

In the US, of course, they have zip consumer protections, so YMMV.

I've never seen one with a DS Lite or Xbox360 and would probably find it hard not to sit there and study it to get a "feel" if I did. Wonder if you can get one second-hand on eBay and disassemble the internal software? I bet the randomizer is keyed to an internal timer IC that could probably be removed pretty easily...