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Not gambling if it was 100% skill 😤
I never won one of these btw
Not gambling if the prizes aren’t worth anything. /s
Right. Like those skill arcades popping up are 💯 fair to the gamer, and not in any way rigged in the owner’s favor.
It’s interesting that some Taco Bells filled the tank with water and others didn’t, seriously makes it way way harder .
I think they all started with water. Eventually almost none had water. I’m guessing they started to leak after a couple years.
Ones like this were really easy to win. You drop the nickel or quarter* straight onto the second to last platform. A quick twist will usually work, but if you don’t mind dirty looks from the employees you could tap on the side of the top twist knob to “nudge” the coin. This is easy to control and makes it trivial to win, but takes a little time and makes an annoying rattling sound.
*My experience is that dimes are too light weight, which makes them very unreliable for winning consistently.
Ya, me and my friends had rules created at our tbell due to us winning so much. One of my friends was very brazen about it and would get change for a dollar then win 4 burritos. New rule: 1 win per visit. I would win a burrito but ask for a taco. New rule: no exchanges. I think someone got told to stop shaking the spinner up and down too lol.
Back then if you “won” one of each that was $0.40. Today we’re all losers and one of each is $4.97. Plus tax, and hopefully not delivery. Don’t do delivery for Taco Bell.
I can’t imagine getting Taco Bell delivered. It kind of turns to greasy mush within like 5 minutes after making it. I don’t even like taking it home to eat because it gets bad so quickly.
I have no idea what I’m looking at
You drop a coin in the top and try to land it on the yellow arm. The prize you win for doing so is related to the value of the coin. Supposedly all the coins that hit the bottom were donated but who knows if that’s true.
Worked at Taco Bell in '08/'09 and we had a regular who would come in with a whole ass zip lock bag full of change and stand there playing that thing for an hour plus.
These were justified in a way (and this kind of thing is very much still around) since all of the coins are picked up by a charity.
Skill-based, so it’s not considered gambling.
Same reason arcade games can give out tokens -> prizes.
Was the same deal with pinball in the US at one point iirc - a bunch of places tried to ban pinball because it was seen as being the same as slot machines, until a professional player got a machine in front of the supreme court and repeatedly called his shots to prove it was a skill game
It’s a cool story. They actually swapped tables on him at the last minute, replacing the one he had been practicing on. Still called the shot and saved pinball.
99PI?
Almost certainly - can’t remember where I heard it, but if it was a 99pi story it’ll be that
There’s a recent movie about it! Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game. It was on Hulu a few months ago. A little cheesy, but honestly it’s delightful.
My friends and I got banned from using this because we got so good at it. Our technique was instead of twisting it we figured out their was a lil bit of room to pull up on on the lil handle and basically gently shake the coin to the next platform. Being able to eat a shitload of taco bell for like 2 bucks as a teen made the food taste so much better.
I had that shit on lock. Got banned from playing.
What was your technique to win?
I don’t even remeber. 30 years ago lol. But I fuckin robbed that Dairy Queen.
I always assumed that they were impossible to win, and that the coins you saw on the ledges were placed there by the employees.
Nah, they’re super easy. I could get it at least 3 out of 4 times when I was a kid.
Man those are nothing compared to arcades these days, legit look like casinos.
Dude its actually so sad. Can’t even keep the tokens as momentos because its just a FuCKING sTUPIDASS KEYCARD. God it pisses me off so fuckin much bro. I refuse to keey this stupid ass banner ad of a card on my shelf with my other momentos. Bring back fucking tokens man.
Cards or phone apps are way easier to deal with then tokens though. Dave and Busters is the only reason I’ve used nfc on my phone.
A challenge coin size memento would be cool though.
Even the parents hit different.
The '90s* and 2000s* hit different.
The '90s* and 2000s* were a different era*
My McDonald’s still has this
