I tried to profit at an arcade

What a dumb idea

Imagine being the arcade worker and having to watch the road work guy come in for three days straight, go apeshit on one single machine, buy the most obscure prizes, and never return again

I cannot imagine the employees reaction to seeing this grown man come to the arcade three days in a row, to play the same game, to buy the weirdest prizes. I hope Drew is a story spread amongst the employees for years to come

I worked as an "Arcade Manager" in college. Yes, you can profit! The secret is owning the machines. You're welcome 😊 🙏🏻

As a dad, I do love the card system for efficiency purposes. But as an arcade lover it makes me said that my kids won't experience the rush of tickets spewing out of a machine.

That arcade worker must think Drew is the biggest incel on the planet coming in two days in the middle of the work day, absolutely killing it in a meaningless game, and then cashing out a hot dog toaster, man cave sign, and avengers mug.

My friends and I cheesed the "Deal or No Deal" machine at an arcade once. At the beginning of the game, the screen shows you the values of all the cases, and then plays a scrambling animation. Turns out this animation is actually how they mix up the cases (it's not just randomized with number generation afterwards for some reason), so we pulled out our phones and recorded the scramble in slow-motion. Then one person would play the game, stalling as long as they could, while the recorder would scrub through the video, following the biggest case. We could win the maximum amount of tickets every time with this method.

Two things from an arcade employee- 1. The reason the game counts the tickets so slowly is because the card reader has to communicate with the headquarters of the card company and then send the tickets back to the arcade. Where I work, it has to communicate from South Carolina to Missouri back to South Carolina. 2. Maximum payout is actually a very poorly worded anti-glitch mechanism. The machine stops giving out tickets at a certain point so it doesn't give out unlimited tickets. You just have to let an employee know, they swipe their card, and it overrides the maximum payout notification and gives you the rest of the tickets.

me and this girl went to an arcade for our first date and we bonded over your video and spent about an hour playing that stupid ball game. that girl is now my girlfriend. thank you, danny.

“I love you now” Never forget that this is Amanda’s world and we’re all just living in it

the fact that Drew and Amanda put their bowling names names as "Me" and "BimBim" (their cat) is hilarious to me

I wonder if that free 30 minute play card could have been used to raise the jackpot by losing on purpose every time

The decimal is there to make sure you never exactly use up all the points you bought. A very effective psychological tactic to entice you to re-up.

i love how drews strayed from the format of "talk about bad content" and now he just fucks around

Tip from an arcade attendant: If you reach the maximum payout, get an employee to swipe their employee card on the machine, and the unawarded tickets will be put onto your card.

7:02 "theres just something about cubed meat that makes me feel like im being given my rations for the day" made me think about the video where him and amanda eat the squares

I work at a Main Event and let’s just say, there is no profiting. There’s one dude who comes in around once a month and just plays a single game (milk jug toss, and he’s really good at it) as many times as he can and has accumulated 2 million points (what you use to redeem prizes) and even he tells me there is no profiting, he does it as a way to give back to the community by giving away all of the prizes he wins to little kids. Main Event is a children’s casino but the only thing you get as a reward of spending your hard earned money on is a Frozen Elsa sing along microphone that will probably break in 2-3 business days

My local arcade used to have an electric chair (game?) that gave you tickets for as long as you could hold on while it shocked you. I used to spend all of my tokens there because it was a sure fire way to get tickets, but in retrospect it meant that I often spent my entire arcade experience getting moderately tortured just so I could win "prizes" I could get from a dollar store, all for the low price of like 50 bucks.

In today's episode: Drew narrowly avoids a gambling addiction

I profited at an arcade once, a kid in front of me won a ton of tickets but the machine ran out after a few. He thought it was broken and left, but I asked an employee to refill it and I got all of his tickets. So I guess the best strategy is... stealing? Or at least scavenging Also I found a machine that had a minimum payout above zero, so even if I "lost" I'd get something.