Have you ever won anything playing video games?
>>318382260
I actually won a 360 from that thing when I was like 12 or 13
>>318382260
The sense of achievement that comes with completing an actual difficult game.
I once won a Spyro plushie at a crane game at the supermarket
also won a laser pointer on the machine with lightbulbs that you press a button to stop the light on one of the red bulbs to win the prize
shit was cash
I won my PSP from one at Six Flags. When that last block was moving I felt like I was going to have a fucking heart attack.
One time I won a 3DS XL for a dollar at Dollywood.
>>318382260
Never from playing video games, but I've won plenty of knicknacks from event give aways and similar. I won a pen from the Intel guys as PAXAus. That's my retirement pen.
>Stacker
that game is the bane of my existence. Nothing but faggot chads and white trash come in to play it, and every single fucking time they get salty as fuck.
I'm sorry, you're expecting to receive a 100 dollar giftcard for 50 cents? Get fucked.
>>318382260
Tokens and tickets for a prize at the game corner.
I won a PSVita on one of these things.
Either I was lucky as fuck or they don't set the cabinet up in hotels (The one I won was at Great Wolf Lodge)
>>318382260
casinos have arcade things in their slot machines now. The one i played one that turned into a 2-d space shooter when you hit certain spins
>mfw my shooter skills are worth $8 on average
>>318382260
i won a mouse pad once
Yeah. There was a Stacker machine at the entrance of an arcade in a mall downtown. I'd always drop maybe $2 on it on my way out if I had a bit of money left over. They're rigged as fuck but I figured I'd get lucky sometimes and get there when enough money had been put in that I was allowed to win.
Probably spent about $50 on it over the course of a few years and managed to win three times. Got an iPod back when I had no MP3 player, then a DS Phat, then conveniently got a newer-gen iPod Nano to replace the first shortly after it broke. I've never actually bought an MP3 player 'cause of that thing.
>>318382803
Is it too much to ask for it to be a real test of skill though, instead of a playcounter determining when someone gets to have a chance at winning?
>>318383129
If it was a real test of skill they could never make a profit on it, so it just wouldn't exist. So yeah, it kinda is too much to ask.
Isn't that game rigged? I read some stories on /v/ about it, there was an anon explaining that sometimes, the machine makes it so you couldn't win the game, I don't remember how.
>>318383129
>Is it too much to ask for it to be a real test of skill though
Yes, because if it was purely skill based someone who was good at it would clean it out regularly.
>>318382260
Nope, but I played these all the time and I was always scared that if I ever did win, I'd accidentally choose an ipod mini or some dumb shit instead of a PSP or whatever I wanted back then.
I never won anything from playing video games. But I did win my ps4 from a pizza Hut competition.
>>318383191
Yeah, getting the last block is only achieveable after a certain amount of money has been spend. It's hard but otherwise a bunch of people would be able to the clear the machine with a few Dollars every time.
>>318383191
stacker makes it impossible to win until a certain amount of money has been spent on it determined by the owner
it's just a skill-based game until you get high enough to win something, then it skips over the space you have to get in unless there's enough money
>>318382902
This machine gave out jackpots like candy.
Easily one of the best exploitable machines at Dave & Busters
>>318383191
If you hit the last block with the right timing, it will shift over one block and make you lose anyways unless a certain amount of money (set by the owner") has been spent since the last time someone won.
I actually beat that block stacker game in the OP and won a copy of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.
>>318383129
That's why i have a ton of ticket games.
That's why i have a bunch of video games.
"Instant gratification" machines like coin pushers, stackers, and claws are for inbred retards.
>>318382260
I guess these have to be rigged, right? I made like 5 attempts and got to the top row 3 times, but always missed by one. The first two times I thought I fucked up, but I was really confident I hit it the attempt after that
Won a free copy of Sonic Generations for having the fastest time in Green Hill Zone as 3D Sonic.
>tfw beating someone's time that was used the Super Sonic Ability without it once.
>>318382260
Not sure if that one's rigged or not like that doll picker, but a decent strategy I got was to stack them on the side.
It's easier that way.
>>318383401
THIS FUCKING GAME
Whenever I go to D&B, this is my one game I can consistently get jackpots on. I wouldn't even call it exploiting, nor am I saying it's necessarily hard to do, but I do think this is skill based. It's just getting that timing right, and when you do, you can get it tons of times in a row.
>>318383325
bingo
they're rigged, like all games of this sort...
>>318383598
you won a free copy of a game you already had?
>>318383894
It's basically knowing exactly when to drop it. Since the game doesn't fuck you over you have an 80% success rate of getting in the jackpot or the 150 ticket hole.
>work at a casino
> people cry that the slot machines are rigged
>usually only betting minimum or crying over .25c
No fucking shit theyre rigged, theyre programed to takes 10s of thousamds of dollars before you get a jackpot.
The worse ones are the ones with those platforms loaded with coins or chocolate and they push a bar out to push them into the hole. They make you think they're moments from spilling tons of prizes over but you'll never fucking get anything.
>win one of these when I was like 13 at a movie theater
>get a PS3
>go to redeem it
>they tell me they ran out of the big prizes and give me a box of shitty candy, not even a brandname candy like Crunch or something
I haven't touched games like these since.
>>318384601
That's fucking bullshit. You should have at least got your money back. That's fucked up.
>>318384738
I would've caused a storm if I was a few years older, but I was beta as fuck back then.
>>318382260
I don't think I've won anything from video games, but I did win a Deathadder Chroma from a Loot Crate giveaway last year.
>>318382260
Some LAN tournies in HOMM3 long time ago, I was probably best in my country. But I didn't get anything, no reward, just bragging rights I guess.
>>318382260
If you add in money from tournament's plus leaderboards maybe 70ish grand along with the free promotion shit like e3 tickets and getting to go to the play station experience.
There was a Naruto UNS3 tournament I entered. I made it through the whole tournament running away with Konan. After I won and accepted the 50$ gift card, I told everyone that hopefully they can finally realize that the game is trash.
>>318384601
>>318384823
Reminds me of something I should have raised a storm about too but didn't because I was young.
>early teens maybe? Really don't remember; this was fucking ages ago
>go to convenience store with cousin one day
>get one or two of those oatmeal square things that one of the big oatmeal company used to make
>get home and start eating it
>notice crawling in my mouth
>notice tiny bugs all on the wrapping and all over my oatmeal square
>rinse mouth out
>lots of tiny little bugs
>cousin takes me back to store
>I notice lots of bugs crawling around the little box thing where the oatmeal squares were at
>somehow didn't notice this the first time
I got a refund when we spoke to the cashier (a whole not-even-a-full-dollar) but damn, could have probably gotten a lot more. Pretty sure that's a cause for store inspection or something.
Polite sage for not vidya.
>>318382260
I finished 3rd place in a 30 man LAN game of Chivalry Medieval Warfare once. I won a single beer.
>>318385562
You just triggered the fuck out of me
A random normalfag at my previous college challenged me to a Street Fighter 4 $10 money match.He wasn't very good, so I tried to let him keep his $10, but he insisted I take it.
>>318382803
There is some RNG bullshit on that thing right?
I've gotten to the top so many times obly to fuck it up.
>>318385704
Sorry boss. It was a weird experience and I kind of "wat'd" through the entire ordeal.
The Stranglethorn Vale fishing tournament.
https://youtu.be/FYPgVQCClwc?t=1070
>You never got to go on A*mazing and smash all these casual cunts at video games
>see posters around my uni advertising a smash bros Tourney
>entrance fee is $2 winner gets all
>smash randoms for an hour and leave with $60
also
>Deadliest Warrior just came out
>local place is having a tournament for $30 prize
>win using an unblockable ninja combo
>get $30
>>318382260
I won a 3dsxl FE:A edition from one of those in spain a few years back.
>>318385771
Sounds similar to mebut that idiot thought that his smash skills were worth 100 bucks because he made it to the final four in a local tourney. Didn't expect a falcon main since the first game
>>318385562
Reminds me of the time I found weevils in my bowl of weet bix after I'd already had several spoonfuls.
Some guys at highschool set up a Halo 2 system link tournament once.
I won because everyone else only ever played on coagulation so the smaller maps fucked them over. I just picked up the shotgun and cleaned house.
>>318382260
if slot machines counts yes
spent around 1$ and walked away with 130$ during a travel to sweden
of course my bags for the coins went bust on the way back with the money
>>318385979
There's a prize yield you literally can now win regardless of skill until a certain amount of money is put into the game or someone messes with the settings
I once won a heart or so I thought, alas it was rotten and bitter inside. Evil person.
