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| From: MI4 REAL | Posted: 2/7/2001 11:23:00 AM | Message Detail |
| cool game, but the thing doesn't grab well... --- The Master Gamer: -OFFICIAL- *PDMasters* *GEMasters* *PROUD PD VET* *LttP Masters* *OTTM* *Turok 2 Masters* *PDLegend* |
| From: MI4 REAL | Posted: 2/7/2001 11:23:49 AM | Message Detail |
| Meaning it's rigged... WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT??? --- The Master Gamer: -OFFICIAL- *PDMasters* *GEMasters* *PROUD PD VET* *LttP Masters* *OTTM* *Turok 2 Masters* *PDLegend* |
| From: MI4 REAL | Posted: 2/7/2001 11:24:24 AM | Message Detail |
| WHY DO I HAVE TO SPEND $10 TO GET SOME CANDY??? *kicks machine* Someone got 10 more dollars? --- The Master Gamer: -OFFICIAL- *PDMasters* *GEMasters* *PROUD PD VET* *LttP Masters* *OTTM* *Turok 2 Masters* *PDLegend* |
| From: TerranRedneck12 | Posted: 3/1/2001 11:18:06 PM | Message Detail |
| Once I went to a festival and they over loaded the game so for every quarter I put in I'd never grab anything but I'd drag it across the pile and get 3 or 4 toys everytime... I walked away with about 15 plush pieces of crap... but at least I won!!!! --- ''Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.'' - Turkish Proverb <PD> |
| From: MI4 REAL | Posted: 3/12/2001 1:17:45 AM | Message Detail |
| Woohoo! --- The Master Gamer: -OFFICIAL- *PDMasters* *GEMasters* *PROUD PD VET* *LttP Masters* *OTTM* *Turok 2 Masters* *PDLegend* |
| From: JonDaMon8 | Posted: 3/21/2001 6:45:29 PM | Message Detail |
| I won 10 south park dolls once YEhAW! --- Proud Member of the PA AOP: #console_war, #lobby, #ff, #dc, #lunar, #J_B <PDLegend> |
| From: MooMan | Posted: 3/23/2001 9:37:57 AM | Message Detail |
| whats the cranegame? is it from Mario Party? |
| From: Gaming Master | Posted: 3/27/2001 6:30:31 PM | Message Detail |
| Crane game is those machines you see in the front of stores with the stuffed animals in them and you get them with "the claw" - quote from Toy Story --- You're To Old To Kid And To Soft To Rock |
| From: PimpBot5000 | Posted: 4/3/2001 8:22:56 PM | Message Detail |
| one time me and my friends were at a pizza hut somewhere and they had this play til you win crane game with a bunch of weird stuff in it. We saw this one hulk hogan cassette tape and were sitting there trying for over an hour trying to get it. We'd get mad every time the crane picked up a tootsie roll cuz that meant our round was over. We never did get that tape... --- Eatin' it hard at the box office <SkeeBall Master> *Proud PD Vet* |
| From: MI4 REAL | Posted: 4/8/2001 8:46:42 PM | Message Detail |
| Hccccccct... --- The Master Gamer: -OFFICIAL- *PDMasters* *GEMasters* *PROUD PD VET* *LttP Masters* *OTTM* *Turok 2 Masters* *PDLegend* |
| From: OmegaDog | Posted: 4/15/2001 5:20:49 AM | Message Detail |
| It really depends on what positions toys are in, to win something. Often, I check out a crane game's contents for a minute or two before I determine if there's anything winnable in there. I've had my share of dud tries, but I've also won more than a few times. Of most importance was two small plush huskies, a grey one and a black one, that I won while I was at Walt Disney World (I was there for a high school marching band trip). When I saw the toys, I told myself I absolutely had to have one (I loved the way they looked). And those toys are particularly important because I won it with some help from a person who was almost a girlfriend who also was particularly fond of huskies. :) It took me 11 tries (where each try was a dollar each) -- so that means each of those huskies cost me $5.50 -- still a bargain for what toys normally cost at Walt Disney World. This was also important because this was where I sorta trained myself how to be successful at the crane game. ;) I've also won a tiger with $0.25 in a crane game at some random gas stop in Nebraska (travelling by bus for a college marching band trip), and a calico bunny from a crane that's really close to home. --- "Crawl back to your pack, whelp! I'm the alpha here!" - Jon Talbain, Night Warriors |
| From: Mr Fancypants | Posted: 4/15/2001 8:49:49 PM | Message Detail |
| Aim for the golden cord at the top of the plushie. Not the plushie itself. That's the trick. |
| From: ohnoitschris | Posted: 4/25/2001 1:56:03 AM | Message Detail |
| At my local arcade, theres a candy machine where you play until you grab some candy, so me and my friends waited patently and got lots of free candy from people who inserted $.25, tried, and left... Lots of free games ^_^ --- http://ohnoitschris.cjb.net |
| From: Its Easy Mkay | Posted: 4/25/2001 4:58:39 PM | Message Detail |
| If you stick your hand in the door and catch the candy without touching the bottom or sides of the interior, you can play forever on one quarter. But only if your hand or the candy does not hit the bottom or sides, because it resets the machine or something. --- "I see holes like eyes. My head is full of them." - Collie Entragian, "Desperation." |
| From: SNS | Posted: 5/5/2001 6:19:06 PM | Message Detail |
| Sometimes the ones with little prizes are play until you win --- Pokemon Stadium 3 Announcer: The Pokemon are mating & are refusing to battle! |
| From: MI4 REAL | Posted: 5/22/2001 8:18:21 AM | Message Detail |
| I played one of those free game candy cranes once or twice. --- The Master Gamer: -OFFICIAL- *PDMasters* *GEMasters* *PROUD PD VET* *LttP Masters* *OTTM* *Turok 2 Masters* *PDLegend* |
| From: Its Easy Mkay | Posted: 6/11/2001 11:58:48 AM | Message Detail |
| *bump* --- "I see holes like eyes. My head is full of them." - Collie Entragian, "Desperation." |
| From: Carlos the NES gamer | Posted: 6/14/2001 9:28:03 PM | Message Detail |
| The crane game is fun. --- "Losers never win." |
| From: Spike | Posted: 6/15/2001 3:38:21 AM | Message Detail |
| my K-Mart has a play till you win candy crane and I never knew you could keep going on 1 quarter by doing that! I'll remember this! --- [this signature has been deleted by the original poster] |
| From: Spike | Posted: 6/15/2001 3:40:24 AM | Message Detail |
| Once I stuck my hand in there to get the candy though and CRICKETS WERE IN THERE!!! LIKE 5 OF THEM AND THEY JUMPED ON MY HANDS AND ****!!! YUCK!!! --- [this signature has been deleted by the original poster] |
| From: Spike | Posted: 6/15/2001 3:41:38 AM | Message Detail |
| I didn't mean they **** on my hands literally btw! --- [this signature has been deleted by the original poster] |
| From: Carlos the NES gamer | Posted: 6/15/2001 10:07:26 AM | Message Detail |
| LOL But that there were crickets in there is disgusting! --- "Losers never win." |
| From: Spike | Posted: 6/16/2001 3:35:39 AM | Message Detail |
| I know, it surprised the crap out of me, the crane machine wasn't even outside, it was inside the place! --- [this signature has been deleted by the original poster] |
| From: doc | Posted: 6/30/2001 6:11:11 AM | Message Detail |
sodid u eat them or the candy lmk docpoles@hotmail.com lol --- |
| From: Dragons Lord | Posted: 7/5/2001 7:45:33 PM | Message Detail |
whats new guys hehe |
| From: salt2000 | Posted: 7/10/2001 12:31:47 AM | Message Detail |
| I felt the attractive force of the Crane game, but I resisted. They'll never get me! --- I know I can drown your sorrows/And take away all your pain/Take my hand and hold it tight/We can make it thru the rain |
| From: Quicksilver | Posted: 7/19/2001 7:52:24 PM | Message Detail |
| I won a hat from a crane game and i only spent 2 dollars. A new Eagals hat I will never wear only for 2 dollars what a dealO_o --- I AM NOT EVIL |
| From: salt2000 | Posted: 7/25/2001 1:37:51 AM | Message Detail |
| I'll admit, I tried it a few times. Never won anything. --- I know I can drown your sorrows / And take away all your pain Take my hand and hold it tight / We can make it through the rain - paragon |
| From: ESPIKIKAY | Posted: 7/31/2001 12:09:13 AM | Message Detail |
| after 2 tries? kool --- So what! Who cares? Even the Care Bears don't care! RPG Elite Arm Slicer No. 501 |
| From: JonDaMon8 | Posted: 8/3/2001 1:17:46 PM | Message Detail |
| after wasting about 20$ i only won a piece of junk finger bike! --- <PDLegend> |
| From: salt2000 | Posted: 8/11/2001 6:45:34 PM | Message Detail |
| Imagine the profits they pull on that crane game. --- I know I can drown your sorrows / And take away all your pain Take my hand and hold it tight / We can make it through the rain - paragon |
| From: purplez a fruit | Posted: 8/12/2001 6:23:26 PM | Message Detail |
| lol what a sad board... hey MI4 wassup --- *~PROUD PD VET~* ::The Human Mutt:: *WUPAH* |
| From: Master Cheez | Posted: 8/23/2001 7:10:08 AM | Message Detail |
| there's this coin op candy grabbin' machine thst makes annoying noises.. somehwere in Sault Ste. Marie (sp on all 3?) and I put in... don't remember, msybe a quarter, and I always got more than $1 worth of it. Or at least a lot. --- Master: Apprentice: |
| From: Master Cheez | Posted: 8/23/2001 7:11:58 AM | Message Detail |
| I saw a video tape and a disk inside the machine, I got both with little or no trouble. I'd rathr play the game where you put in a coin, turn the handle, and you get a prize........ :P --- Master: Apprentice: |
| From: pepper2000 | Posted: 8/30/2001 7:15:55 PM | Message Detail |
| Purple is my favorite fruit of them all. --- pepper 2000 - Nothing to sneeze at. <99> "It is not a fairy tale. It is true." |
| From: Kamil | Posted: 9/3/2001 1:49:30 AM | Message Detail |
| there was one at a local walmart and me and my friends win on it a lot! Sure we had our share of loses but there were some stuff where we would just look at it and then go "that one is easy to get" it all depends how they are laying in there. Infact I won a NY Rangers bear on my first try by grabbing it under the arms. We also won some other weird stuff like a boxing glove, the queen of hearts doll, gumby, I was pleased when I managed to win this plush Philly Flyers mask and some other crap we got just b/c they were easy to get. There was this one thing in there though that we knew could never be won. It was this huge huge Ape in there and it had this world champ shirt on. That thing didn't even lift up if you tried to lift it! The claw sorta just dangles there for a while and then pulls back up without lifting any part of it up. That thing always made us laugh. |
| From: Dr Potato | Posted: 9/21/2001 12:05:28 AM | Message Detail |
| (save) --- Dr. Potato |
| From: Tom Clark | Posted: 9/30/2001 2:41:25 AM | Message Detail |
| I love the Kit Kat commercial with the crane-game, when this little girl's Dad finally grabs a stuffed toy by the head with 'the Claw', gets it all the way to the place where you drop it to get it out, and only the body drops, leaving the head in the claw. It's funny if you've actually seen that happen in real life (although when it happened to this guy I was watching the head didn't fall off, the claw had just stabbed right into the stuffed toy, so when it was dropped half of it's insides were wrenched out. Damn that was funny) --- Round here we talk just like lions, But we sacrifice like lambs - Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) |
| From: GeoX | Posted: 10/3/2001 11:25:29 AM | Message Detail |
| A long time ago, my friend was playing a crane game and I was watching, and suddenly, I don't even know why, I just reached over and smacked the make the thing go down button, and he was pissed off, but then he actually won something, and he was like, whoa, and I was like, yeah, I rock. --- Jingo bells, jingo bells, jingo all the way! |
| From: ibinsane | Posted: 10/12/2001 5:48:03 AM | Message Detail |
| What a great story! Next time, I try that. ^_^ --- WARNING! Subsequent posts and their posters are defective WARNING! Supermodel rule #1: Kryptonite will not hurt and/or kill you. |
| From: jup | Posted: 10/14/2001 12:52:13 AM | Message Detail |
| There is a new type of crane game that is making its rounds in all the arcades, these days...and I can't believe the thing even exists. The thing is filled full of those stupid little halloween candies and a few actual candy bars. The idea (like usual) is to use the crane to pick up the candy. (But, here is where it gets totally absurd.) IF you are lucky enough to even get the crane to pick up a piece, it plops it down on this platform, where a motorized plow board MIGHT push it slightly forward. The idea is that the dropped piece MIGHT push another piece "won" from before that MIGHT cause a domino effect to push somebody's victory from who knows how long before to drop into the shoot. Not only is that bad enough, but the game isn't "play 'til you win" and it costs 50 cents a play...all for the attempt to win somebody elses piece of 10 cent candy!!! I can't believe this machine's total scam isn't seen by EVERYONE!!! The only good news is that I've only really seen a couple people even get addicted to playing this game, and they were both employees of the arcade...getting their endless supply of tolkens for free. So, they wern't really losing much. What else can I say but...DON'T PLAY THIS STUPID MACHINE, PEOPLE. JUST DON'T. If you must have cheap, cheap candy, buy it at 7-Eleven for a dime a piece. |
| From: jup | Posted: 10/14/2001 1:22:59 AM | Message Detail |
| Those "Play til you win" Pez and Bazooka gum type crane games are the best, aren't they? On occasion, when I have a couple spare tolkens and I don't feel like playing a game, I'll put the last tolkens into those type crane machines and get a cheap snack for a cheap price. Granted, I've never seen an infestation problem in any of them, like crickets, thankfully. But, they usually are wrapped in something. I have seen a couple candy vending machines that acted like prize givers, too. The first one must have come from Vegas, or something. I mean, this must be as super-deluxe as they can get. The thing accepted just about any kind of US currency out there. From pennies to those silver dollars. (ALSO, the modern golden dollar coin.) And, one dollar bills up to a Twenty. (No wonder it took those dollar coins. It needs them to make change with.) But, the best thing is the crazy machine has a lottery system in place. (Which I have won twice on.) You put your money in, make your choice, and if you win, the thing beeps like crazy and the display says, "Congratulations. You are a winner." and gives your purchasing price back to you along with the item purchased. The other vending machine I am talking of was a candy vender at work. One day, the thing did the craziest malfunction. Something in the coin return process got stuck and would keep returning all the coins that were fed into the machine...but only after it was registered in the machine as a digital figure. (Which meant free food for the use of a single quarter.) Once word got out, (which was rather quickly) the employees mobbed the machine and emptied it of almost everything. (We are talking a major cash loss for the candy vending company, here. I forget the actual storage capacity. Perhaps: eight shelves. Each with 5-10 rows. Each row holding a dozen or more products. Most rows have a price listing of 0.50-2.00 on them. Plus the small gum holding area. Not to forget all the change in the change maker device. A LOT of profit loss, due to some stuck bent coin device.) Needless to say that a whole lot of employees were fired within a week of that event. WAS IT WORTH IT? NO! CRIME DOES NOT PAY!!! PS: I forgot to mention that on that scam crane game that I posted about above, there is a large door that controls where the candy that falls goes to when it falls. About 10 seconds after the crane comes back to it's home spot, this large door changes position to catch any candy that migh fall and places it in some sort of interior holding area. (So, that cheaters can't bang and rock the machine to get the candy that is sitting on the shelf.) I don't even want to think about what the machine owners might do with the candy that falls down in that dark area...possibly sitting there for months at a time...possibly tossing it back into the main "crane hunting" area. ***YECK***!!!!! |
| From: Ayumi Hamasaki | Posted: 10/14/2001 3:04:11 AM | Message Detail |
| o.O --- Shin Gouki in CvS2 could wasted ratio`s 1 player just with 1 strike with his Kongou Kokuretsuzan :) ... W00t ? O.o |
| From: Tom Clark | Posted: 10/14/2001 3:30:03 AM | Message Detail |
| mmm... rancid storage candy.... --- Round here we talk just like lions, But we sacrifice like lambs - Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) |
| From: shoeshine boy | Posted: 10/15/2001 4:25:18 PM | Message Detail |
| *wonders where SBH is...* this may not be 'secret' enough for his tastes... --- |
| From: Tom Clark | Posted: 10/21/2001 1:37:22 AM | Message Detail |
| It isn't really secret as it's on topic... --- LOL... Didn't see that one coming. :) : CJayC on being modded! |
| From: Scum | Posted: 10/21/2001 8:06:01 PM | Message Detail |
| SBH will make it in due time. I hope. |
| From: Redlof | Posted: 10/22/2001 1:11:23 PM | Message Detail |
| There use to be one of those "play till you win machines" a my local K-mart. It's gone now. God, I miss that machine. --- "This is why I love you Redlof. Always thinking about the children..." -TheDoor, after I told him that I thought a baby could eat another baby. |
| From: Tom Clark | Posted: 10/26/2001 1:31:04 AM | Message Detail |
| Scum - when he makes it I vote we kidnap him and put him in a display case. I've tried to do that so many times, but he just keeps eluding me. Tom (AKA Secret Board Hunter Hunter) --- LOL... Didn't see that one coming. :) : CJayC on being modded! |
| From: SBH Hunter | Posted: 10/27/2001 4:07:39 PM | Message Detail |
| You're not me! YOU LIIIIIIIIIE! I'm on to your game. Trying to trick me into posting in my other account so The Secret board hunter can me find me out, well 3 words for ya buddy, "Not gonna happen" --- Secret board hunter hunter-Giving the secret board hunter a taste of his own horrible medicine. |
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