World's luckiest video: guy wins a Wii from a crummy mall arcade game

Meh, whatever. I'm a highly educated member of society, but I'd be reacting in the same way. People need to ease up.

Ha, stop acting all high and mighty. You know damn well that if you were to win a Wii for $20 you wouldn't be calmly walking around quietly congratulating yourself. No, you'd do exactly what these kids did and saying that you'd do otherwise would be a blatant lie.

I love those stacker games.

This game is rigged to let you win only when the machine has made at least as much as the most expensive prize in the case. I found one of these machines at my local arcade and put 12 dollars in and won an Xbox360 that sold on Ebay the next day. Next day someone had won another Xbox360. Best way to when is to plan ahead and be at that machine all day monitoring the cash flow it takes in and then capitalize at the right moment and win.

i used to work at an arcade and we had that very same stacker game, the game manager set the stacker to payout wen it received $1300 in profits. the games are rigged, and its not very hard to get the stack to the very last lvl. and again you wont win unless theres $1300 in the machine before you played.

I'm always one brick away on the stacker game, but I know it's possible because I watched my buddy win a GBA SP last year on one.

I think it's fantastic they won, and I'm sure we'd all wouldnt know what to say once we one something like that, so we'd all sound a little stupid. Thing is, a lot of people are brought up with swear words as descriptive words these days. ("This is fucking awesome") that sort of thing. It just happens, not everyone may like it, but it does. I personally dont like it at all, but I can't do anything about it. Those guys were young, let them enjoy saying whatever they want. You know when they're older and possibly businessmen or whatever they wont be saying "fucking awesome dude" when they close a deal or whatever. It's just your youth. When you were growing up, your elders thought you sounded stupid too, and the same thing will happen when those kids get older, they will think teenagers sound stupid.

I remember playing a prize game like this a couple of years ago. I forgot the name of it, but it was the one where you had to stop an arrow that was spinning, so it can land on a positive number, and then depending on that number, you would level up or down. I think it was called light house.

Anyways, I spend around $17 on it until I finally won. So I push the prize button. Nothing happens. I push it again. I see that Metroid Fusion for GBA is sliding out. BTW, there is a crowd of 9 year olds all around me. So its almost done coming out, and then I notice that another game, Super Mario Bros. 3 for GBA, is also sliding out. I was winning two prizes!

Then something strange happened. None of the game wanted to fall out. The thing was engineered so that it would just stay at the tip, and not fall out, so that you would have to call a worker. That's cool, so I call the worker. Keep in mind there are still kids around me.

When he gets there, I explain to him that the 2 games I won got stuck on the tip. And then out of NOWHERE, one of those whiny brats says that I didn't win the other one, and that it was his. WTF!!!!!!!!! YOU STUPID LITTLE KID I STABBBB U!!!!! GET AWAY FROM MY VIDEOGAMES!!!! MIIINE!!!!

he continued to yell at the guy. Then the guy decides that even after my continous flow of blood, sweat, tears, and cash money, the kid gets one of the games. The guy gives him SMB3. Im just standing there like an idot thinking "WWWWWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY DOES THIS 9 YEAR OLD DEMON GET MY GAME FOR JUST STANDING THERE DROOLING ALL OVER THE CARPET!?" So i did what everyone else would of done in that situation. I whipped out my gun and shot him 9 times. :D

im a great story teller. :p

@Dash

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

"Thefunkyone, drop the holier than America game. We get it. Everyone outside the U.S. like to base stereotypes from what they watched on MTv and FOX NEWS."

Im not basing any stereotypes, listen to the guy and what comes out of every Americans mouth on "reality T.V shows" it's guaranteed that you hear a stream of "ooooh my gawd"'s

I will give the guy who won the Wii credit, he was happy happy about it, and wasn't running around shouting "WTF, OMG" constantly like the moron filming it... I actually got the impression he wanted to get away from the over-stimulated moron filming it.... I mean its just a Wii he won, its not worth running around shouting WTF, OMG for something you can buy with pocket change.... Now winning a couple of million, that would be different ;)

funny stuff. i'm sure the wii's ruined after taking that jolt though. lol.

nintendo should put more wiis in these things... considering the odds, the average wii out of one of these probably goes for hundreds of dollars more than they actually sell for at retail... sure, for that one dude it cost a buck, but consider the hundreds of dollars spent on that one wii by others who tried to win... it's a cash machine for them...

of course, i'm assuming that nintendo gets that money somehow... they either charge the owner of the stacker more for the wii and the owner pays more because they know they'll make it back at the machine, or nintendo gets a slice of the machine's revenue... either way, nintendo isn't giving these things away i'm sure

"I call shenanigans. These kids just happened to be sitting around videotaping themselves playing a stupid videogame of some sort (what the hell WAS that?!) in a mall? And that just happens to be when they when a console? Riiight."

These amazing devices are commercially available now called CELL PHONES. Many of them are equipped with these new gadgets called DIGITAL CAMERAS and can TAKE VIDEO. Did you notice how he didn't record him winning? He probably grabbed his camera right after his friend won. Before hand, there wasn't much need to do so.

the best part of that video is where the second guy goes for "props" and gets ignored and then switches to a pat on the back to pretend like thats what he always meant to do.

As anyone who works in the amusement industry will tell you, the payout rate on these machines is entirely configurable. Ours are set at a $300 pay-in before pay-out , meaning the 300th player always wins a grand prize. I've tested these in the shop, and the 300th player always wins regardless of when they press the stop button. The only "chance" involved is the chance that you might be the 300th player. And as for this being "legal", the laws governing gaming/amusement vary by state.. which is why you will only see these machines in states that allow this type of "chance".

that's one lucky bastard

I actually found the man-love angle to be more amuzing. Why did the cameraman spend so much time focused on the butt of the winner? At least he comes clean at the end with a "I love you". Ah, young teens in love. What a charming video.

MY GOD!!!

That is Grapevine Mills Mall

IT is about 1 hour away from where i live...

And i actually played that same game to win a x360....

but of course i failed...: ( He is lucky

Go win a wii for $7 and tell me that isn't exicting to lose your mind to it.