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Beating 5 Scam Arcade Games with Science
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- Published on Sep 16, 2022 veröffentlicht
- I built 5 robots to beat the 5 most popular arcade games. If you want to unlock the magic of engineering in your life, go to Studio.com/Markrober (for teenagers and older) OR Crunchlabs.com/MarkRober (for teenagers and younger).
And if you want that backpack (minus the contraptions to win all the games), you can find it here- markrober.store/collections/b...
Yes that is the plants vs zombies music! Credit to the inimitable Laura Shigihara- / supershigi 
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I'm trusting you guys with to use the PEZ trick responsibly!! And I know it's been a hot minute since I've posted, but my videos take a lot of work and I've got 3 more BANGER vids to drop before the end of the year!
Ok
@BenjiTheBnny Bobi
ok
what if you made the basketball's moving slot thing move 100x faster?
Imagine people coming into the arcade and wondering how they could ever beat the record on the machines...
@ i like you
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But…I don’t image that.
Imagine being an employee at an arcade and seeing Mark walk in, knowing what is to come.
I don't think people understand just how cheap arcade prizes are
@janbiel12 The clerks should worry about their salary if enough people start doing this🤣
Squirrels, glitter...some chaos.
I would just let him in if I got a autograph
Shout out to the muscle guy Andrew Herbert, a world record breaking powerlifter. I have no clue how Mark found him, but he sure found one of the strongest human on the planet.
@Ste Da thats offensive.
Also just a superstition
@BananeledWorking on his brains. 🤣
So he’s basically the real-life version of Hercule Satan?
Like he said, he just found him in the arcade
Led me to think
I took your advice and built all of these things. It took me a while. About 160 hours of design and build with about $8000 out of pocket. But I successfully got a bunch of tickets which I traded for a $3 stuffed animal, so who’s laughing now?? Haha, I totally swindled them!
big cappin
Amazing lmao
If you ever see Mark walkin into an arcade with 12 backpacks, you already know he’s about to own the entire gift shop.
@Ryan Robinson I've seen a ps5 and xbox series s for a few thousand tickets 🤷♂️
@Luigi Battaglioli dave and busters is the exception
Yup- 🤣
Haha 😂😂
Ahahahah true, hit up a D&B’s tho, and that may be a different story @Ryan Robinson
He really just went and made the power fist from Fallout to beat someones score on the punching bag.
@Joshua Packard bc pez is too powerful
@KäsekuchenLP yeah, but a pez dispenser did
@notfiveo you should work in the industry. They do that all the time!
My problem is I come up with solutions to problems that don’t exist.
@KäsekuchenLP He had Unarmed level 9
Imagine being an Arcade worker and seeing the same guy on the security feed 9 different times in 1 day with slightly different backpacks everytime.
CrAzY cOiNcIdEnCe I gUeSs
Imagine imagining.
Bruh
👁👄👁
@blindleader42 😂😂😂😂
I love how Mark so casually downplays that you could get thrown out of the arcade for this, but when he's actually demonstrating them he's all shifty eyed making sure he doesn't get caught lol.
yup
Theater of the mind!
@kjulo be honest im pretty sure they just dont care since that aint part of their work
So unless the boss or a bootslicker found you they wont care
Y'all think your average mini golf or boardwalk arcade have floor watchers? Nobody is leading you into a dark room to have a chat at Bennigan's because you were cheating at Skeeball
Pretty sure they arcades know about him filming this, otherwise it would be way too obvious and it makes things a lot easier. Really awesome video nonetheless though!
I sure would need a ”dad finder”! Seems like a cool unit!
If i found him, id also need the bionic fist invention
Yeah me to.. I don't think he's getting milk.
DARK!
You will need one if your dad goes to get the milk XD
i know how that feels 👁👄👁
The local arcade I work at (won't specify which one) actually has told me that most the rigged games are a automatic %30 chance to win if the owner chooses not to change it
Where I work doesn't do 100% but I know they can it just makes them lose money
@decal could they be set to 100% or close?
I worked at Main Event for a while and it’s set to 20% there
The idea of walking into an arcade with multiple backpacks is hilarious to me.
Plot twist: it’s one back with everything inside
15:50 Mark is probably the only guy who keeps his diamond play button alongside tools and equipments
My favorite part is that his pez dispenser contraption is so much more simple than his original one.
Ikr
@SalKhayer Occam's pez dispenser lmao
@101jir woulldt even have crossed my mind, thanks
Yeah, but now he just has a Pile Bunker laying around. Never know when that could come in handy.
Only thing Mark isn’t factoring in would be the power of the universe. On my 13th birthday, I won like 3 jackpots on the same day. ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Lol unless the arcade did that on purpose to make me happy. 😂
Then it makes total sense.
@Jackson Gibbs I really don’t remember, but most likely they knew. 😂.
Did the people running the arcade know it was your birthday? If so, they probably did do it on purpose.
@Konversation Koopa thank you it was some of my best comedy
@Cerberus Combat MMA p
Your an employee at a arcade store and you remember that Mark's Making a video there , you know that 3000+ kids are gonna be following him and the arcade breaks down.
Do u real liked a kid a merch of preston
"But you'll notice, there is no rule against spring loaded piston punching gloves" -mark, 2022
Mark always comes up with the most interesting inventions
Suddenly I want to learn engineering
It's really fun bro. Most jobs pay pretty well and some classes have 3d printers where they will let you learn to use and print things with
Do it. It's fun. You don't even have to go to school for it.
I must say, the air hockey backpack is genius. The other guy would never notice a backpack playing for you while you are doing something else.
@K P fr
it would be more hilarious if his component also use one 😂
air hockey thing is really inadequate since both mechanical arm and Raspberry PI are much slower than human arm and brain. Essentially any human player (yes even children) could beat it. Plus it can not hit hard enough and have the hockey stalled on its side
Ikr
@notcoolatall
Has to be hilarious for the greeter at the door seeing you go back and forth to your car to swap out the same backpack.
@squidman Seeing as arcades typically have a lot of children, they usually have someone at the entrance to make sure no kids wander off without their parents. They're called a greeter because they also greet people coming in
tf is a greeter
The pez hack was some incredible on the spot engineering!!
Wow. I loved it.
"Sir why do you need 3 backpacks in an arcade"
Mark:
Arcade:
To carry home my won toys?
Why do I always feel like there’s a solenoid in everything he makes
You make engineering fun bro.
Always hated the maths...but end results it worth all of it
I’ve said my whole life “arcades are casinos for kids but with zero regulation”
With experience games to further widen the loophole
Nope it’s casinos are arcades for audits.
Yup a lot of the same games are available in casinos with actually money..
Regulation is the parent
As a kid of the 80s and 90s, I miss the heyday of arcades where they were like movie theaters - the newest, best games were there first and months later would get a home release. It’s sad to me ticket games have totally taken over.
Ah the days where you don't have to pay 2$ for a lap of Mario Kart. How I love it
Well at least those "best" games can now be more accessible
If you wanna play all games, all you gotta do is bring your 10 backpacks, discretely, into the arcade 😅
I'm sure you can bring all 10 backpacks in together in a big pile. They don't need to be discrete. But you might get caught if they're continuous.
I used to own a couple of arcades and the percentage payout is down to the location. In the local inland arcades you could run 80%-86% payout as you want the customers to return, at the coast they will be set at a minimum, 70% is normal, and the local fair that comes to town once a year could have dodgy programs and run ridiculously low. This includes the popular crane grabs....
What if when Mark was young, he lost so much money in arcade games he decided enough is enough,
and he studied Engineering for revenge😂😂
I'm surprised how he was able to wear such a heavy backpack
Imagine walking into the arcade seeing 9 jackpots go off while a guy leaves with 9 different backpacks smiling
@ItzMalickKys you’ll never be anything
Bold of you to assume he doesn't have a single backpack that has all 9 functions
@ItzMalick that sounds like the most boring channel ever
Or one guy and his 8 friends each with a different backpack and each with a different jackpot win.
@ItzMalick 💀
Mark out here making a side hustle of tutoring but in a way that is much cooler than just learning how to pass tests
Would love to see you do the fruit machines too 😂😂
With al, the knowledge from your videos, I’m either going to follow my passion to be a scientist, or become a mechanical engineer.
I swear, Mark takes cheating in arcades to the next level
40 minutes in and I already think it’s going to be so fun. Your videos are always so freaking fun
Some of the older crane machines didn’t have the ability to be odds based basically there is adjustment wheels on one of the circuit boards inside to adjust how much grip the claws have.
Such a cool find! The class and the labs sound addicting.
I went to an arcade the day this came out! It was so useful! Thank you so much!
I love the fact that all of the arcades he features are places I've taken my kids. We've taken that Quik Drop jackpot at Hyper Space more than once! 😀
Oh cool a verified person hiiii
You better have gotten a charm for that backpack for basically carrying your jackpots
Imagine trying this 30 years ago when cards didn't exist. You'd need a second backpack just to hold all the paper tickets!
@Sodafied same
Bruh here i have never seen a card at an arcade, only paper tickets
We still have paper tickets
30 years ago, there were no arduinos or raspberry pis
Paper tickets are the best.
As someone who worked for 5 years at an unnamed major corporate arcade for children (🐭), I remember our district tech giving our district a range in which the redemption games had to be “rigged” based on the store budget. It was crazy.
so inspiring how a backpack has not just storage for items but also james bond features
Love ya work, Mark. Looking forward to getting my kid and engineer friend some build boxes for this Christmas ❤
The dad finder is so useful I finally can find my dad after 15 years!
I think they also use these beam brake detectors on the supermarket conveyor belt. It tells when there is your groceries at the end and detects when to stop.
Mark: makes a weapon,
Government: “What’s that for”
Mark: “beating my friend in the arcade”
@TK-7193 yes watr malone
@Sheriff_intheseparts water malone
Mark would create a knife that can slice any mineral like Titanium or something and someone will ask him why and he will just say "To cut my watermelon."
I dont think ur in the US
Lol
He spends so much time making great videos 😊
As a mom of 3 boys, I thank you for your "cool" example of science.
You are awesome Mark! I am 40 but still get fascinated with all the stuff you do!
This guy could potentially make the most watched video of all time someday.
Mark Rober is a national treasure
There’s something about having a huge wad of “physical” tickets that makes it more rewarding/satisfying than having them just loaded onto a card. At least with the card it’s more discreet though.
Well said
I always felt like places like Chuck E Cheese that just weighed the tickets instead of putting them in a counter was screwing you on the true amount of tickets you won.
I prefer getting physical tickets, partly because in the UK we don't have cards in arcades
Mark Rober's au'tis'tic s.on will be a failure and my content will be more important than he will ever be🤣 ahahahah
@AsianPersuasion jusy to get like 5 lollypops
Hey Mark! Big fan here. I was wondering if you ever had conduct a resonance experiment, but the sand is in a cube and sound is on all sides of the cube. Would the geometrical patterns be 3D or nah?
I love how the guy does not care that he’s playing against a backpack 😂 10:04
Awesome stuff, Mark!
Great channel, really interesting stuff!
Imagine being the boss of the arcade and see mark walk in. Mind: something bad bout to happen
This is fantastic.
it's cocacolastic
fantastic yessir 100% fire
Thabks 4 watching. Tune in next week to.find out if you're the dad
What do u do daniel
@James Patton I bet he didn’t even get 15 seconds into the video.
the beauty of engineering is that it cannot be created from nothing
Wym?
from the slowmo of the punch, i think you'll get more results by having larger surface area, less deformation in the ball and more momentum transfer
Imagine being that one guy who lost Air Hockey against a backpack 💀
He is the best Clip-Sharer imo, his videos are so interesting and the editing is very well done.
What a great video i enjoyed every second of it !
I love how Mark Rober is basically a more wholesome version of Tony Stark, who uses his insane engineering powers to beat shady arcade owners and porch pirates, rather than alien invaders.
But if the aliens ever show up, I can't wait to see how he will turn his warehouse into a Home Alone death trap.
@Slinger I do agree with the fact that doctors are incredibly different from engineers, but I would say a doctor needs some sense of engineering if they are working with tools, it's true a doctor needs a different subset of skills in order to make a diagnosis but at the end of the day a doctor needs to know how to use the proper tools to treat your medical condition/ diagnosis.
A team up with Nerd Explains to overanaylize the alien invaders' mistakes could be fun
@Blue Flash best response of 2022
@Slinger depends HEAVILY on what type of engineer. I used to sail on commercial ships as Chief Engineer and have a Marine Engineering degree. The steps you listed doctors do are very applicable there.
Doing rounds in the engine room, checking temperatures/pressures of running machinery, diagnosing problems, using instruments (like a voltmeter) to gather data, rectifying issues based on the diagnosis.
Low budget, geeky Tony Stark
The punching glove thing has Dr. Stone energy
@Solar Bear fr
at this point he's basically dr. stone
Mark, you are the Rube Goldberg of practical engineering! Love it!
Heath and Rube are looking down proudly
Love your content mark keep doing what your doing
Although Stackers is random in its payout, I win at least 30% of the time and the prizes are sometimes worth $15 or more, so $3 for a $15 item isn't bad.
@SmileInCam You high bro ?
A $15 "item" that costs 50c when bought in bulk from China.
Do u realised a kid a merch of preston
still pretty epic that you managed to make a robot in a few days that punches almost as hard as this guy's muscles which he's been building for years
I guess you could say he’s been building his knowledge for years though
Mark Rober could've devoted his talents to paving the way for human life on Mars, but instead, he chose to make our lives here on Earth a little better and brighter with these delightful videos.
@I have fallen and i can't reach my keg what? how would humans possibly make mars' atmosphere and weather conditions any worse than they currently are? also, if we're trying so hard to destroy earth, it's amazing that the climate is still undergoing periodic shifts at the exact same rate it was 1000 years ago. we really must suck at breaking things.
Why not both?
humans will never live on mars, so I think he chose his path well.
He chose to teach the child to get started as an engineer, who will then pave the way for life on mars!
This kind of content was definitely needed. Science videos like this will appeal to the younger audiences and teach them how that dorky nerdy stuff that they might think is boring now can apply to them in adulthood, or in the here and now even, and benefit them. Not to mention that it's actually cool to be nerdy and dorky about science. The more people who come around to science, the better. Admittedly my younger self did not like science, in Highschool I failed Science classes often. I wound up becoming a science major in college after discovering a passion for it. Sometimes all it takes is a video like this one to flip that switch.
It's cool how he speaks science casually while everyone else has no idea what he's doing
Mark your channel is awesome. My kid watches it every day. You are his hero.
It’s funny how no matter the solution, whether it is training or going to college, both essentially tell the viewer to, “Git gud.” 😂
I am impressed with ur dedication to the craft hat tip to u sir. You took cheating to a whole different level
The air hockey bag one looks hilarious! 🤣
Mark can singlehandedly bankrupt the arcade sector if he wants to. He's just choosing not to.
Too late
There are consequences to doing that.
True
@Jeweled Peach that's a copy paste message, those "small channels" go around posting it under A LOT of random high-like comments on A LOT of different channels to get attention
I say - make HIM president. He'd run America a lot better as he is honest AND SMART (Which is EXACTLY what we DON'T have in the White House today).
Imagine being that kid watching what Mark is doing
I didn’t know so many of these games involved lasers and stuff! Cool vid :D
No words to describe this but can't stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thankyou to the arcade for allowing Mark to do these tests
A bowling ball that moves as you move? We NEED this for beyblades like yesterday.
The fact that you took the time to build all these to go in a backpack or just look non suspicious is amazing this is epic.
@Waaa home arcade meaning arcade in his home town. if I'm out of town at an arcade that would not be my home arcade.
@Ant My Dude he says near the end of the video that its his "home arcade". Meaning he's the owner.
Well he’s making money of it
wadadww
It is so awesome to see him doing this in the golfland arcade where I grew up playing mini golf and playing arcade games because it was the closest mini golf course to my elementary school
the dad finder is too genius
In some arcade machines I found around the world, some sounds alarms if you’re only getting high scores for example, as it raises suspicion.
I Thank Mark for Inspiring my daughters interest in science.
I wonder what Mark does for 'fun' and relaxation.
What I love about Mark is that he makes STEM appealing and fun for kids, making kids more likely to go for STEM majors, a true service to society.
nah history and social sciences for LIFE BABY
@mark_ chill out 😂
@Duck Meat yeah it ain’t the same 🥲
@AlmightyK Chill out it’s a joke. But if you really think the future is bright in the USA you are tapped.
If they didnt care about studying STEM before, they aint gonna care now. Don't set your entire college education and all those student debts based off a youtube video, kids.
Imagine being Mark's kid and going to the arcade with him
Interesting..with air hockey I naturally taught myself all of those tips and have only ever played that way.
Why can I understand mark more than my engineering class
For games like key master usually they set the payout to be about 50x to 100x what the items worth, but I don't think it can be any higher as there are laws around it
I did something similar. Brought a bag with a SAW in it. You’d be amazed how many machines it works with.
Such a banger video Mark!
Yeah, I love how he rickrolled us: 20:06
Oh no! We’ve been discovered!
Yea
@EmptyStudent oh nvm sorry
@EmptyStudent 2*
I mainly just go to arcades for fun. Even as someone that's almost 20 I still find them fun to go to lol.
"There is no rule against piston powered gloves."
Fallout 4 players: He made a freakin' Powerfist. He legit made a Powerfist, and technically it's not against the rules. What a legend!
This dude would be the best dad ever