I tried to profit at an arcade
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2022
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What a dumb idea
Ik, he really fell off
Like reeeally fell off. Off a mountain. It’s so depressing at this point.
yeah
Shoot
agree
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 would love that so much
I’d wonder if I dreamt it as a result of inhaling the fumes from the 37 year old disco carpet
how did we get here? i used to know you so well
By day 3 I would just have the ladder ready by the counter
@@sambibambi5409 twilight core
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.
10,000 IQ
Im using this thank you
You’re a genius
work smarter not harder, atta boy
Seen a video of a couple kids in Japan using this method on a variety of machines.
I worked as an "Arcade Manager" in college. Yes, you can profit! The secret is _owning_ the machines. You're welcome 😊 🙏🏻
The house always wins!
lmaooo
Underrated comment
God bless! I’m going to make so much money! 🎉
Cracked the code
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.
i still have tickets and tokens in a bag lol
I think I'll be the last to experience that as a kid. I went to very few arcades as a kid, but I did win some jackpots, it was a lot of fun
that was my favorite part at chuck e cheese
I would love to have the card system instead of coins but definitely tickets over card
I remember winning a Jack pot once and I sat there for what get like an hour (it was probably 1-2 minutes) as tickets spewed out. I didn’t expect to win, I was at a birthday party and blowing tickets because I didn’t have anyone to talk to, and so I was about to cry because I thought I broke the machine and I thought I was gonna get arrested or something, but nope. I jus had an absurd amount of tickets. I expected the jackpot to be a lot less I guess lmao. Now I won’t be able to experience that again because places don’t have tickets. (The mortification went to “okay, this is fine” eventually)
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.
Giga Chad
I think the term you mean is “King”
we're used to it.
now when you say it like that-
That's why he brought his wife the first time
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’ve been the kid to watch a grown man playing a game in the middle of a school day. My mom felt bad about missing some middle award school thing so she took me to an arcade during school hours (I chose the arcade and I don’t really remember the day of the week) but like 30 minutes into the time we were there, a grown ass man comes in and asked me to play a game I was currently playing and I let him cause you know turns. I think it was a fish game I was really enjoying but I figured that after he played a few I could go back later so I went and just played other games. Wrong. He played the fish game the whole time. Even when my poor mom tried to ask to let me play it, he told her to leave him alone I could play other games. My mom almost lost it and tried to do something but I just told her it’s no big deal that we could probably play other games. My mom did tell an employee though, so I did get to play the fish game and having a grown ass juman kinda glaring at me a bit when we left.
And eventually buying a hotdog toaster with his points
kinda more common than youd think-if customers get either big value prizes or just. weird shit we do talk about it.
for example: one of my first closing shifts, the last customers were two *very* drunk men who bought like two boxes of nerds ropes, a box of sour patch kids, and a box of swedish fish. they still had tickets to spare afterwards.
And then to never return again lol
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.
Danny is truly a match maker 💚
I love a good ol' happy ending
is your name “Gina Marie Rodriguez” just wondering?
Not for LONG, LOSER!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌
Awesome! Congrats
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.
you truly do the lord’s work, thank you 👾❤️
i was so confused why he didnt even try asking a staff member
@@sharkboy2222in FanDuel/Draft Kings and Vegas generally they cut you off if you're doing too well and tbh i don't blame him for trying to avoid that with the arcade
@@sharkboy2222socialising scary
the fact that Drew and Amanda put their bowling names names as "Me" and "BimBim" (their cat) is hilarious to me
bimbim
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looks like Drew finally realised he can write off expenses on his taxes…
ratio
@xxbloxheadfan2001x man tried to ratio😂
@@bruhbebuh3105 you ratiod the ratio. slay
Oh it's this guy
Great a comment stealer is here
I wonder if that free 30 minute play card could have been used to raise the jackpot by losing on purpose every time
Whoa, _duuuude!!_ That's frickin' brilliant! 🤯🤑🤑🤑
Dang that's like shorting a stock. haha
Yoooo that would’ve been insane
nah this is really smart
It works, like this is literally what my brother does every time he goes to the arcade
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.
Video games with in-game currencies which you can buy with real money do the same. V-bucks in Fortnite, the coins in Halo Infinite etc. Pretty much every game with a store.
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.
Fun April Fools prank for arcade employees: Secretly replace the shock chair game with a real electric chair for the day. Tell no one
I should be concerned that that sounds like fun to me....
was there a max payout, or could just hide rubber under your clothing and get infinite tickets
@@tigercors3308 there wasn't necessarily a max payout but the game would run out of tickets and you'd have to get someone to refill it
Goddamn
In today's episode: Drew narrowly avoids a gambling addiction
In the name of science of course.
“Next episode we explore Arbitrage Betting”. lol
It's not gambling if you know you're gonna win!
Bold of you to assume it was avoided
Hopefully nobody tells him about casinos.
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
I work at D&B and we have regulars who come weekly. They play the crap out of the claw machine. One gives the prizes away to children as if he is Robin Hood as you mentioned, and others go home with bags full of plushies to probably sell online (unless they have 50+ kids at home XD)
Absolute heroes
Lol specifically business days
That sounds like an awesome guy, kind of person I would wanna be friends with
“I love you now” Never forget that this is Amanda’s world and we’re all just living in it
she always has the most hilarious lines in his videos 😂😂😂
@@blancaluna572 she has somehow managed to gain the monotone in which drew does his ads
i’m apparently selectively deaf and need the timestamp pls 😭
@@jaqsre 5:33
@@ObeyyOrtega187 tysm!! x
i love how drews strayed from the format of "talk about bad content" and now he just fucks around
this is way more fun
@@drewisgooden definitely more fun to watch too
I like how the combination of this comment having one like, and having been hearted by drew implies that drew liked this comment.
@@alexdh2001 ikr just watching the same old videos in which a CZcamsr or a tiktoker is called dumb is way less fun then his new creative videos.
@@drewisgooden Honestly, as someone who's cleared out a lot of their "Talk about bad content" subscriptions, this and the last video are what got me to stick around.
This is super entertaining and I look forward to/fear whatever you do next!
I find it hilarious that the most replayed moment of this entire video is when Amanda looks into the camera and says "I love you now". So many dreams fulfilled. LOL
Ew weirdos
i’m pretty sure it’s because it’s right at a cutaway for an ad so she kind of gets cut off and the viewer may have missed what she said
Or it's a funny moment?
@ThisIsMadnessMan after playing an ad you get put back a few seconds from where it cut off. You wouldn't have to do it manually.
@@awerbawojd999 ?? It's just funny ???
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._
For anyone wondering about the slow ticket payout.
A majority of modern arcade machines are still built with paper tickets in mind. The swipers we use are a modification, not the intention behind most machines.
Due to this, the machine lets off 'pulses' to output the paper tickets. When we splice into that line with a swiper harness, we are limited by the game's pulses.
As an example, look at the Ticket Time machine showed a few times. Those ticket rings use an RFID system to payout to the swiper. That game was made for swipers, so it can payout 25 tickets per pulse, rather than 1. Meaning it's payouts only take mere seconds, even for large payouts.
Hopefully, over time, the arcade business will evolve to favor this faster payout system, rather than the archaic paper-based payouts.
Source: I'm the guy who repairs those machines.
nifty thank you!
oh, cool! thanks for letting us know :) i’ve always wondered why it worked like that
Thanks cool guy!
Thanks man! This was some sick info
thanks for your expertise
This is exactly the type of thing everyone wished they could do but we don't so we watch Drew live our dreams instead
**sigh** Well at least it's Drew we're watching live out our dreams, I can deal with this.
Facts
@@PyroGamie a😂 du kh🚥
Jokes on you I literally drove past this place three days ago
U mean Danny…?
The best thing I ever won from a Main Event was a neon green lava lamp. It's basically your everyday run of the mill one that you can buy at Spencer's for $20 but I cherish it so much and it is going into my will to become a family heirloom
i see this comment every time i come back to this video and it's still the best thing i've ever read
@@moscowlitbro same
Even if Drew sold 7,000,000,000 (seven billion) Marvel mugs for 10$ USD each he *STILL* wouldn’t be in the top 10 of richest people in the world.
I don’t think there is a market for that many marvel mugs
@@bigmac92 well once Drew has cornered the market on Marvel mugs arcades will have no choice but to turn to him so they can have Marvel mugs as prizes, then he can crank up the price thanks to supply and demand.
Thanks for spelling out what the number is because I don't know what numbers are without reading them
@@indianturdeau9117 if this isn’t sarcastic then you’re welcome 😅
damn the top ten must’ve bought into the marvel mugs market early
If Drew never makes another video again, we know why 💰💰💰
Dont read my name 😑.
Oh hey it's you! What are YOU doing here?
Don't you have a cartoon to be over-analyzing or something?
On the absolute grind
Ligma mindset.
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.
Ya but what's the chance of a employee doing this for you? As a employee at a arcade business yourself would you do this? Be honest.
@@dillonsherwood6233 I mean yeah, I do it all the time. All of the people I've worked with do it too. I can't speak for other arcades, but mine does.
@@dillonsherwood6233 also an arcade attendant- its super easy to just... swipe our cards, which are always on us, so yea. i don't see why anyone would be against just doing that. lol
this is the content i come to the comments for. thank you for your service, friend
thank you for doing the divine work we don’t deserve
I did this once, even when I was a kid. There was a coop space shooter game at the Chuck E. Cheese where multiple people worked together.
Well, it turns out, if you had literally any number of players more than 1, it was trivially easy to play forever on a single play, even for 2 children. I only had my brother, but it was never hard to rope some other kids into it and teach them how to survive forever with only 1 or 2 wasted plays if they agreed to give us 200 tickets. There was no competitive element at all, so no kid had any incentive to break it except boredom, and they could just intentionally die without screwing anyone else over. Me and my brother got a GameCube this way. Unfortunately, they removed the game after only a few months, presumably because we had stupidly told the counter guy how we got all those tickets.
drew talking about his "profits" at the end is the epitome of girl math and i'm so proud of him for that
I read the title as “I tried eliminating an elected official”, I was SO confused after 20 minutes
that should be his next video.
Hey, you
How on earth did you get that from the title?
apparently that’s been happening a lot lately - my bad!!
@@drewisgooden MK-ultra Gooden
as a former floridian, the fact that drew went anywhere near international drive in the middle of the day, on a weekday, smack in the middle of "end of year field trip" season, is truly admirable. risking it all for the grind. that's what makes him the youtuber
I’m curious, what’s so scary about the international drive?
@@asma3318 A million tourists everywhere, high prices, and insane traffic. I try to avoid I-Drive like the plague
Agreed. I-drive is awful all times of the year but especially now 😳
I'm literally planning to go to dave and busters on the first day of summer vacation for my birthday 🤦♀️ why would I do this to myself
I stayed at the coco keys on I-drive when I went to universal for a week in 2017 and we didn’t have a car, we just walked it, but it was literally so insane.
I once met a guy at a Dave N’ Busters who had been living off of profits in an arcade. What he would do was pay 100 each day and get about 3-5 consoles from the arcade each day and would sell them off, and made an infinite money glitch to some extent. He also taught me and my buddies his tricks for all the different games and the best ones for profit. He was an absolute gem.
Ooooo spill?
my friend and I found an employees' unlimited free play card at a hotel arcade once so we just played the ticket roll crane game until we had tens of thousands of tickets and we didn't know what to spend it on so we just gave them out to kids at the redemption kiosk😭😭 we got this little girl the barbie vanity set she wanted bc we heard her dad saying she didn't have enough tickets and she was so happy💔
this is so cute omg :')
I love this so much 🥺❤️😭 Thanks for sharing, you brightened my day 🫂
You probably made a whole bunch of kid’s nights and gave them some pretty solid memories that night, and you also got good memories, playing with friends (for free). I remember my friends and I went into an arcade and we shook a machine and got told off by a manager lol. I don’t blame them, and I felt really guilty after, but TBF if that’s the worst thing I’ve done in my life, I think that’s okay. (But I still feel terribly guilty for it.)
Everytime my parents brought us to an arcade they would also make us give our tickets to another kid in the arcade bc we never got enough to get anything we wanted. I can’t imagine what it was like for the other kids: just another kid approaching you sobbing while handing you a pile of tickets
i have that same hotdog machine..
it caught fire when i tried making hotdogs with it, near burned my house down.
So they were exremely hot dogs.
I just want to be the first comment. Hello.
im so happy for you
Well, there's a new idea for Drew's picture of a hot dog. The extremely hot dog.
Deata mitävittua
mä tiiän tän äijän nowaybro
Imagine the main event employees watching him come in three days in a row and standing at the same machine for hours
i'm sure they have people who do that all the time tbh
i’m sure it’s nothing new. after all, this IS orlando…
It's an arcade...? Wtf you supposed to do haha
😅😅😅😅😅😅
I don’t think it’s possible to watch one Drew Gooden video without going on a six-day full-channel binge afterwards
drews face walking out with the toaster is so wholesome.
When I was a kid I won the jackpot on this one game at an arcade and I won like 5,000 tickets or something. I used them to buy this inflatable fighter jet that was like 2 feet long and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. When I got home, I went to inflate it using my dad's industrial air compressor but it was so powerful that the inflatable jet immediately just exploded.
This made me snort. Rip inflatable fighter jet.
We will keep the inflatable jet in our hearts
So sad :c
@@hthumbs4072 I snorted too😂
@J Bull oh i did too. it's 5:47AM. I did *not* sleep yet.
HELP ME
I went to las vegas this summer for like 4 days. My brother had a basketball tournament there and we all just went with him as a family vacation. My sister and I didn't want to watch, so we went to an arcade. I watched this video like 2 days before we left. My eyes practically lit up when I saw that damn machine standing there.
Thanks to this video, my sister and I (and even my brother on the 4th day when he finished the tournament and joined us) got so many damn jackpots. When I saw quick drop was there, I went with my sister to check out the prize section and we dreamt big on what we were going to get.
I now have a new mic, a new good and clacky rgb keyboard (that came with a shitty rgb mouse), 2 new gaming headsets, a knockoff NES with 620 old games, 2 of these weird 3d star that expands to sphere toy things (idk how to describe it), a 10 ft long USBC cable, a 10 ft long lightning cable (ios charging cable), knockoff air pods, and 2 different colours of wired earbuds.
We wouldn't have played the long game without this video. Thank you so much road work guy.
I had to replay at 4:39 like 50 times because I’m a simple man and the minion being banished into eternal non existence had me in hysterics
'You can't put a price on dopamine. So technically, you always profit.'
- The gambler's coping mechanism.
I sell mine for a 1.50
that's what my severe gambling problem tells me :D...............WANNA BET ON WHAT HAIR COLOR DREW IS I JUST NEED A FIX!
Dont read my name 😑.
Found my gambling addict oc’s catchphrase 😎
- The gamer's coping mechanism
The gaming version of trying to beat the buffet
Hey! Did you know God is three in one!? The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit! Bless them!
Jesus died for our sins, rose from the dead, and gives salvation to everyone who believes in him and follows his commandants!
Have a blessed day, everyone!! ❤
@@Call_Upon_YAH don’t spam
I would love to see him beat a buffet in another video!!
what is beating the buffet?
@@tsundor1 eat more than you paid for
5:29 "Gimme that Jackpot baby!
That'll be 711 points please!"
"I love you now." lmao love you two!
I love how he trows the minion away and it is immediately banished to the shadow realm “4:32“
there's something so unrewarding about not getting physical tickets i haven't been to an arcade in so long so i never realized they switched to cards lol
i love arcades and refuse to go to any without the classic tokens and tickets system. it’s also cheaper why would i pay more to have less fun
@@bookshelfhoney if you don’t go to a chain arcade you should be fine. Most of the independent ones still do tickets:)
I have this horrible disgusting one from 1991 in my town that does tokens and tickets, I love that place
@@Laura.Kramer yesss, I love the sea front arcades we have here in northern England. 2p slot machines are the best. You take £1 and can be there for an hour !
I know! No physical tokens OR tickets……. that’s a total crock, all in the name of maximizing profits….. pffff
imagining Drew in a bad fake moustache comically sneaking into the arcade to play the ball game and having a group of security guards carrying him out kicking and screaming
"Don't worry, I'm just three kids in a trenchcoat."
AntiVector and you’re watching Disney Channel
why are the security guards kicking and screaming?
It's even a funnier visual now, when he dyed his hair blue
@@pryncyp8843 haha i totally forgot about that
Simply win all the mugs and when they run out of mugs sell them BACK to the arcade. I should be asleep.
Drew you're supposed to open the hotdog bun before toasting it
The most upsetting arcade prize I have ever received was a huge lollipop. Like literally softball sized.
Turns out it was actually a plastic container holding a bunch of normal sized lollipops, wrapped in a giant dumdums wrapper
Most scammed I've ever been
Oh I know exactly what you're on about! I got one as a Christmas present as a kid and was similarly disappointed :(
dude my bestie got that for my bday I was so disappointed TT
God as a kid I got a huge pack of crayons and it turned out to be a lot of smaller packs in one big container. I was so disappointed (and already HAD sets with more crayons than the smaller packs) we just returned the damn thing. I felt embarrassed tbh, like *I* was the fool for expecting Crayola to have that many original colors of crayon
I'd rather have that than an actual giant lollipop, where you either have to eat like five thousand grams of sugar in one sitting, or throw most of it away. It doesn't look as cool, but it's more bang for your buck and probably more flavor variety.
Those fucking bastards
The intro was actually very helpful for me. When I read the title I thought Drew had bought an entire arcade to renovate to see if he could sell it at a higher value.
Underappreciated comment
I thought he bought a vending machine or something similar in an arcade and was trying to profit from that
same I thought he was actually going to run his own arcade
same haha
7:04 Now look at you Drew. Making an entire video about eating cubed meat!!
He got addicted to cubed rations
"while you were having fun, I was studying the cup. when you were shooting aliens and raciimg motorcycles, I was watching the airflow of the plastic balls as they glided gracefully from the tube to the cup.
you went to the arcade to have a good time
I went to the arcade for enlightenment.
we are not the same.
Drew seems like the type of kid who would stick his hand up claw machines to try and get a toy and cry when he got stuck
he seems like the kid who would climb inside of the claw machine
no he wouldn't cry, he'd just stay there until a concerned adult had to ask an employee to pry him out
he seems like the type of adult to do that
Dont read my name 😑.
@@MbitaChizi k.
Amanda is so funny. And it’s so nice of her to feature a new budding comedian like drew Gooden on her channel.
thats danny gonzalez
@@asdftygh9861kurtis Conner**
y’all talking about scott cramer??
@@ollieexists definitely Scott the woz
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I love how he said “I don’t know if this is the best day of my life” when he is literally married and had a wedding
Being somewhat of a gamer myself, I saw all the twists coming and ....it just made them all that much better. Shared pain comrade
drew gooden literally just went to fuck off at an arcade and play games, and he effectively billed us. What a hero.
I mean, it's not like he had any fun
Yes, but he more so billed the advertisers on CZcams because we don’t pay money to watch
@@alxndra1772 unless your a preme member
@@RCTFreek2channel I suppose. I forgot about that lol
Fuck off sounds wrong..
I met a guy in a Dave and Busters who makes money this way. He was insanely good at almost every game and knew exactly how to beat them optimally. He earns enough tickets off of a $100 card to buy a Wii U to then resell. This was several years ago, so I don't know if he still wins Wii U's or if he buys something different now. He use to be in a few arcade youtube channels videos. I think his name had something to do with mewtwo. If i find it ill reply to this comment.
i will wait however long it takes until i get to know this entrepreneur’s youtube channel
@@angelinabishnoi9292 same
@@angelinabishnoi9292 me too
@Clementeon same
mewtwostruckback?
i watched the part where his girl friend said “i love you now” cause i’m sad and it made me feel a smidge of happiness and that someone loved me
15:45
3/10 dad, bad cable management
I used to work at a lesser known arcade, and there was a time when one of our sister locations went out of business and all their inventory went to us. So many plushies everywhere, the back areas were so full. So the technicians, in an effort to get rid of the inventory faster, made the claw machine games easy to win. One night, there were two vloggers that came in and played the claw games and left with two big garbage bags full of toys and freakin the fuck out. And I am so happy for them for that lucky stroke
How come I never luck out like that?
I now realize you were referencing having a stroke of luck, but reading that they had a lucky stroke threw me for a loop
I knew those games were rigged 😤
Do you know their channel? What was the name of the arcade and the location I think I know who you are talking about
@Bailey Story If you think you know the channel, why not put that in a comment and ask if it’s the right one?
I am convinced that drew is the most unpredictable youtuber
I think that would go to Max Fosh haha. But Drew is pretty good too
someone comments this exact thing every time he posts lmao
Watch connor
But in such a good way
Idk remember when Logan Paul filmed a dead body? That was pretty unpredictable honestly
I’ve seen this machine in multiple places now, but with varying amounts of (minimum) jackpot, so I guess it depends on your target whether the target arcade will ever notice that players are gaining points too easily
i went to an arcade once where there was an extremely broken game that was like plants vs zombies and you were a pea shooter, and with enough skill you could win most times, and the jackpot was massive. i milked the shit out of that game and got 2 massive inflatable balls that i would bounce around on. definitely worth it.
The fact that he’s going to be able to write the expense off on his taxes is too much
What expenses? He made a PROFIT
That's not as easy as you'd think, when you write stuff off as a buissiness expense, it requires you to remove the expense based on the amount it was used for personal versus buissiness purposes, he hypothetically could write it off but given how the irs is I wouldn't recommend it due to the nature of visiting an arcade being pretty heavy on personal pleasure most of the time.
@@mahbluebird he could write off the $72 so he'd only be on the hook for the $3 profit.
@@creapyalbinofish no, part of that profit is the toaster so it would still be a net payment. he could record the $10 his friend gave him as revenue idk
@@creapyalbinofish I mean he did it for a CZcams video which is his job. It's like a reviewer for IGN not deducting the games he buys for work
Wow I didn’t realize how much arcades suck without tokens and tickets
Nobody wants a credit card for an arcade. If you can’t carry a massive pile of tickets to the cash out machine, what’s even the point?
One of the arcades near me used to have tickets that you can convert into points through a big shredder. You get the fun AND the convenience! Too bad their prizes are too expensive
@@nadeen3157 An arcade near me had that too! It was so satisfying to feed the tickets to the shredder, that part was honestly more fun than actually exchanging the points.
I kinda like card idea cause the points don’t seem to expire and you can’t loose tickets as easily
@@TheKNIGHTELFMOHAWK unfortunately some arcades have realized this and started making cards expire... :(
@@MrSpikethefirst good thing the arcade in the mall in the nearest city specified that there isn't an expiry for the card ;w;
Drew Gooden is like if John Mulaney was a CZcamsr and also more self-conscious
15:00 huh. I wonder if the arcade workers actually set that jackpot higher manually at the start of each day, to give the illusion of increased difficulty. So that when you win it feels like so much more of an accomplishment. Either that, or it inflates the perceived consistent value of the jackpot for the first few players.
What made me the most angry/disappointed was that Drew toasted the hotdog buns wrong. If he had just looked at the box a little closer he would've seen that he was supposed to open the buns so it toasted the inside, not burned the outside. Please try again and do it correctly so we can get an accurate, unbiased review.
Hotdog culinary needs more appreciation.
commenting and liking so drew can see this as he’s legally obligated to make an unbiased review of the hot dog toaster.
Honestly I miss my family's hotdog-bun toaster after moving out. Microwave taste poor and even using a toaster oven isn't much better since the dogs need to be microwaved to get them warm enough w/o burning bun.
@@xiulongmao well not legally, but if he wants any respect in the hot dog culinary community… he most certainly does.
Yes, i need a decent review, i don't even like toasted hotdogs but
MAXIMUM PAYOUT DOESNT MEAN YOU DONT EARN THE TICKETS!!! you have to go to an employee and have them swipe it, and it will award the rest. the reason there's a maximum payout is to prevent system errors from paying out more tickets than the person earned.
NOW you tell us.
I was wondering why he didn’t ask an employee about it, that was almost a thousand points he lost. I would have definitely said something lol
@@EvaluunaM I know right. drew seems like the kind of guy that will avoid bothering staff at any cost, but I can say as an arcade employee it for sure is not a big deal lol
@@EvaluunaM I mean... nothing about the term "maximum payout" makes it seem like you can just get the stuff the machine wouldnt give you. It sounda definitive.
@@justoverit yeah, I assumed thats probably why he didn't grab someone.
Couldn’t you have told the workers that you had unawarded tickets so they could let you use your winnings? I’ve had to do that with my parents before when I won a ridiculous 2000 jackpot and the machine ran out of tickets halfway through
i went to a summer camp thing when i was twelve and on a rainy day we took a trip to a place like this. there was one kid who was really good at the ball drop game. he won the jackpot for everyone in the group and it was practically robbery when everyone cashed in their tickets
I'm not particularly a fan of arcades, but the last time I went to one with my grandpa I really wanted a Pikachu plushie and after a few tries I really couldn't get it and I obviously looked really sad about it because some worker just silently came and opened the machine, grabbed the pikachu and handed it to me, went "shh" and then walked away :') bless that guy
Such a wholesome story!
The arcade workers are minimum wage workers so I don’t think they care about the arcade losing a bit of money
Honestly that’s what the teenagers who work at an arcade should do, subtly steal prizes for children.
Aww! That guy is a _hero!_ 🤩
Thank you for sharing that
I work at an arcade, and if a kid really wants something and isn’t being annoying and is polite/kind to his parents/me I just give it to him.
I live in Orlando and just got back from this exact arcade and there was a giant crowd of people around the machine all using the technique from this video of mashing the button 4 times following a slight pause. It was beautiful to watch
So what you're saying is that this guy willed the Orlando arcade ball game meta into existence?
@Cameron do you have zero comprehension skills 😂 the (sarcastic use of) 'technique' that drew said in the video of people spam dropping balls "as if trying to lose as fast as they can" is what this person saw others doing when she visited that arcade
@@verbed9053 The original comment clearly said they saw people using his technique of dropping 4 balls at a time. Get better at reading.
@@verbed9053 If I have zero comprehension skills, you somehow managed to end up with less than that. To quote the video (at 14:17):"If you drop exactly four balls every spin, which is pretty easy to do you will end up with 48 out of the 50 balls with the time you are given [...]" He then proceeds to point out that you'll have to do two drops of 5 in there somewhere, which he personally prefers to get in at the start but it's fine to do them at the end as well.
The original comment here says: "all using the technique from this video of mashing the button 4 times following a slight pause", which describes exactly that tactic.
4 quick drops, followed by a pause is the proper way to play this, as said in the video and also clearly distinct from just mashing the button however many times.
So go work on your own comprehension skills before saying stupid things. (jk, everyone makes mistakes.)
@Verbed okay but you don't do that every time, only twice in fact, every other time you use the 4 ball per cup. Reading comprehension means you can clearly tell that the original comment didn't mean they were losing, only didn't spell out the strategy to a T for morons like you
“There’s just something my about cubed meat that makes me feel like I’m being given my rations for the day”
While you’re at it, why not try cubed broccoli that tastes like spinach
That ticket limit hurt my soul. I remember as a kid pissing off employees cuase I’ll say the game is out of tickets and they see it says 3000+ jackpot. The joy I had from the “tf kid” look while the machine screams “JACKPOT! JACKPOT! JACKPOT!”
I’ve always thought about that with arcades, I imagine the large prizes are so rarely won that workers probably get confused and agitated when someone actually claims them.
Yeah. At Dave and Buster's we had most things locked away in these weird glass cases, and only managers had keys. So we'd call over a manager, they had to find the key, open up the the thing, and then we'd have to awkwardly ring them up. Overall super annoying for us especially when it was extremely busy with children running around. It was a madhouse sometimes. When it was empty it was way more awkward though so I preferred it being busy more times lmao
That is basically the plot of the "Bob's Burgers" episode "The Taking of Funtime One Two Three", where all the neighborhood kids make a heist style plan to win the big arcade prize.
I once won a prize that they brought down from the shelf and it had a thick layer of dust on it because virtually nobody else had enough tickets for it. It was a Ninja blender which I still use years later :)
@@Konitama that’s a amazing prize :0
In middle school I went to a bday party at the arcade. I accidentally dominated at skeeball and won a jackpot, but the mom made me share my tickets with everyone at the party so all I got was a pack of gum or something. I never forgave that woman
aww man.
communism :D
Wtf
@@DC-yu5zn this is the future democrats want , so sad 😢 /j
@@Liam-be5tm is a man not entitled to his own skeeball tickets no says the man at chuck e cheese I know it's not chuck e I'm English I already forgot the fucking name of the place lol
“What? You ran out of virtual tickets?? Just make more of them!”
The Fed has entered the chat
You could buy multiple cards to continue playing past the payout limit. Most arcades allow pooling cards to buy a bigger prize
My fiance and me got Guitar Hero from the arcade like 15 years ago. It was 38,000 tickets. I am embarrassed to tell you how much we probably spent on it but I was trying to stop doing drugs so hanging out at a kids arcade seemed like a good idea.
Iconic
that's a big brain strategy actually
I’m a technician manager in an arcade. The reason the tickets get added one-by-one is because the card swiper uses the wires for the paper ticket dispenser and has to electronically emulate the tickets coming out one-by-one.
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That's pretty neat
bring back paper tickets .
that’s fascinating, that would make sense on older machines… why would they do that with new ones lol
@@tommymarco literally why
Walking out with the hotdog toaster with the smile of accomplishment was so funny
the script of this video is really good in my opinion, I tend to re-watch Drew's videos all the time but this one always gets me lol
Once I went in with 5 dollars.. played enough to score a ruler as the prize.. used it to sweep out under the machines and collect lost tokens. Balled out that day lolll
This sounds like a puzzle in a point and click adventure game that you'd play on newgrounds
@@alexhiser4073 oh man forgot about newgrounds
@@dustinspeicher3390 Amazing comment lol
@@alexhiser4073 riddle school
@@alexhiser4073 lmaaaoooo genius comment
The fact that Drew had to ask the SAME EMPLOYEE to redeem his prizes is just RICH. HOWLING over the implications
Aircades are amazing places, even in my 20's. However, theyre impeccably overpriced. I remember growing up going to disney quest for $40 and every single game inside was free. They had hundreds of games, experiences and things to do. Arcades need to take the theme park pricing model, entrace fees and then upsell once theyre inside. Paying per machine is like paying per ride at a theme park, seems silly and adds up awefully quick especially with families
It was a really sad day when Disney Quest in Orlando closed as it was a staple for school field trips every year due to the free games and roller coaster builder simulator thingy. What sucks even more is what replaced it, NBA Experience, shut down due to the pandemic and our city not being big on basketball after the Magic dominated the 90s so there's just...a huge abandoned building 😭😭😭
I worked at an arcade for 3 years, some thoughts for anyone interested.
1. I asked the owner of my arcade one time if he thought a motivated player could profit off the ticket shop. "Even if he could, we'd sell enough airheads and tootsie rolls to cover it".
2. Also our arcade DID NOT have a max ticket payout if you kept winning. I'm actually shocked to see that, I've played around in the Intercard settings and never seen that feature.
3. Drew's performance on Quik Drop is pretty impressive, we had that game too. My coworker Tyler was into it and played it a lot when we were empty. I remember coming to the same conclusion as drew in the video: you have to have the rhythm of 4 and sneak a few extras in where you can. When you get 5 in the first and last usually have to bounce in off the rim. Anyway I don't think even Tyler was winning 2 out of 5 jackpots, props.
4. at my arcade, I figured the most reliable money maker to be the Double Spin on Wheel of Fortune. A smart person can win every round, you get 2x3xspin value plus 200 per correct answer. For $2 you'd average around 135 tickets/dollar. If you played enough though you'd land the jackpot slices on the wheel and get a few extra hundred tickets here and there. At 130tix/$ you could get a 1000 ticket item for around $7.50. Some of our 1000 ticket items probably couldn't be SOLD for $7.50 on eBay, but at that price it might have at least been cheaper than what you could get it for in a store
There’s something about cubed meat that makes me feel like I’m being fed my rations for the day. Absolutely killed me lmao, those nachos looked pretty mediocre tho.
I wasn't even sure they were supposed to be nachos tbh 💀 lol
I'm not even eating whatever the hell that was
they looked on par with what a school might try to pass up as nachos-
and they spent $70 on them 😭
i cant imagine running into drew gooden in an arcade and him being so focused on the ball game
I can very much imagine that happening
@@helens1016 i think i have now imagined him doing this
Dont read my name 😑.
"Saw Drew Gooden in the Arcade today. He was really focused on his balls."
Once me and my friends were on a machine at the arcade and the ticket payouts stopped working, and a guy came over to fix it, and he clearly didn't give a shit because he gave us all the tickets in the machine and just put a new roll in.
We spent almost half an hour feeding the tickets into a ticket counter and went to the desk and we still didn't have enough to get any of the good prizes.
I was wondering if other people knew how to abuse the Quik Drop. Most optimal experience I had was at an arcade that had 2 of them next to each other. Jackpot one and while it dispensed tickets, jackpot the other, repeat.
The Sims 1 build music was the perfect choice for this video
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The nostalgia i just felt🥲
I can't believe the Sims 1 soundtrack isn't copyrighted, did Drew buy the rights to it for this video?
Wasn't it Buy Mode music?
Its a shame they had to raise the price of Turbo Dave after kids started salvaging his Hover Board for precious metals
your house is haunted
what does this mean
huh
watched this video while playing osrs. Sup legend
hey chip love the comment
I used to work at main event as a technician, so I can shine a little bit of light on why this all works the way it does.
1) the tickets count up slowly because these are retrofit machines. The card reader can be installed, or a ticket feeder can be installed. When a ticket feeder is in use the machine sends a pulse to the feeder, and then it dispenses 1 ticket. If the machine sends 50 pulses, the feeder dispenses 50 tickets. The reason the card reader can't just "count it all at once," is because it doesn't know hoe much you've won, it simply pays out the number of pulses that it gets sent. Those pulses come in the amount of time it takes to dispense one ticket, so it takes a little while.
2) When the card reader says, "Maximum Payout," That doesn't mean you haven't been awarded those tickets, it means a member of staff needs to authorize the payout by swiping their employee card. This is to prevent cheating. The card reader will flag a maximum payout when the machine pays more tickets than it typically does to a single user. The card reader will be unusable until an employee either authorizes the payout or denies it, so chances are after you left, someone who wanted to play the game couldn't and an employee swiped the reader to authorize your payout.
There were other things that I wanted to talk about but I've forgotten them, and rewatching the video to find them would be 22 minutes of my life, again. Sue me.
15:59 Drew went full John Mulaney for a bit there
For those of you who are curious. A lot of machines count each "ticket" individually because as humans when we get good at something our adrenaline starts pumping. So if we earn a lot of tickets it gives time for said adrenaline to die down so you won't be at peak performance when you play again. It sucks, but it's smart
Dont read my name 😑.
They also tend to retrofit old machines that send ticket signals at a specific speed because you can only spool real tickets out is fast. But the adrenaline insight is really interesting, and might explain why new machines aren't more efficient, despite not being created with paper tickets in mind.
I work in an arcade and the reason for this is it needs to physically tick over the analog meter inside the game and then will show on screen as it is processed through. sometimes these meters are hooked up to a system such as EMBED and will report, "paper tickets won"
But he said he could keep playing while it was counting, that's why he didn't know he wasn't going to be awarded all the points until after he had won additional jackpots.
@@vitalyaloves oh yeah, that’s true. I guess they’re just tormenting Drew in particular lol
Imagine working at main event then constantly seeing a panicked Drew Gooden come in there 2 times a week for a month trying to get as many tickets as possible in ball drop
honestly having worked in customer service, for not even that long, an A-List celebrity could have walked into my place of work and I'd have been like "cool. Id better get a massive tip they are fucking rich." The only ones that could get me out of the customer service mindset would have probably been Anne Hathaway and Keira Knightley because Im gay.
@@Kaimli I like Drew as much as the next person but it’s pretty generous to call him an A-List Celebrity 😂
@@tommybellardine uhh yeah that was my point, i think you might have misunderstood, you said you could imagine the folks working in the arcade getting excited to see Drew. My point was that from my experience customer service workers wouldnt really care. it could *even* be an A-List celebrity and it wouldnt be a big deal. So no, I wouldnt call him an A-List celebrity either
16:41 drew: goes to community college for 8 months
danny: casually graduates from college with a degree in computational media
If you bought 3 mancave signs, technically you would've profitted way more. I don't know how much more because I can't do math, but certainly more. Because I think everyone would buy a sign that says "Mancave".
I would buy it for pure satirical value!
Good job, Danny 👍