Beating 5 Scam Arcade Games with Science - Summary

Summary

The video is about a man who uses a specially designed backpack to cheat at arcade games and win tickets. He describes his creation as a "robot backpack" that can play games like Skee-Ball, basketball, Quick Drop, air hockey, and punching bag games more efficiently than a human.

The backpack contains a softball pitching machine modified to run on batteries and a solenoid that releases Skee-Balls one at a time. The balls are loaded into the backpack through a water bottle disguise. The man can then play Skee-Ball and win tickets without human error.

For basketball, the backpack contains a special mechanism hidden inside a normal-looking basketball. The mechanism uses a 3D printed bottom hemisphere and a servo motor to break the beam of light from the infrared laser and detector, allowing the ball to score points repeatedly.

For Quick Drop, the backpack

Facts

1. The speaker enters an arcade and plays a game using a normal backpack, which is actually a modified robot backpack.
2. The robot backpack can load a few balls into a water bottle and play the game like a robot.
3. The speaker has created similar backpacks for other arcade games.
4. The speaker has used these backpacks to win tickets in multiple arcade games.
5. The speaker has also recorded data from various arcades.
6. The speaker has discovered that some arcade games are scams.
7. The speaker has created a robot backpack that can play basketball by breaking the beam of light and then reconnecting it to register points.
8. The speaker has created another robot backpack for the Quick Drop game. This backpack can drop 50 ping pong balls into the buckets within 22 seconds.
9. The speaker has created a robot backpack for the air hockey game. This backpack uses computer vision to track the puck and make predictions.
10. The speaker has created a robot arm for the punching bag game. This arm can punch the bag extremely hard.
11. The speaker discovered that the most popular games in the arcade were the redemption games.
12. The speaker found that the less popular games were played fewer times but earned more money.
13. The speaker discovered that several popular arcade games were actually scams. These games allowed the arcade owner to specify how often a jackpot occurs.