Flamin' Finger

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Instructions:

*You start with a maze, and a dot at the beginning of the maze.

*Drag your dot through the maze with your finger before time expires.

*As you progress, the machine will cheat by running down the timer faster, and screw you out of your money. We actually tell you this in the machine instructions, yet people still play it. That's right - we're that good. Sincerely, Namco.

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Yup just like Stacker, there is really no skill, when you get close enough it cheats you out unless your 1 person out of 1,000 or so
 
Played it a couple times...

...and like the stacker game, my niece is a pro at it. She can get the top prize on the stacker machines about 2 out of 3 times... and she can get the top prize on this game about half the time.
 
don't know how stacker works but have you tubed this one and yes as the levels progress it literally cheats and is impossible to win until the machine allows you. Really same as claw machines where the claw will only have enough strength to grab the prize every 10th time or whatever.
 
It does cheat but not nearly as bad as Stacker cheats. How clean the touchscreen is and how rough the skin on your finger is makes a huge difference in how easy the game is to win.
 
The game is setup to pay out at a certain dollar or play amount. It will not pay out before then and will speed up the timer so you can not make it. Same thing for the stacker, set to pay out at a certain amount of plays.

Brian
 
The game is setup to pay out at a certain dollar or play amount. It will not pay out before then and will speed up the timer so you can not make it. Same thing for the stacker, set to pay out at a certain amount of plays.

Brian

I suppose the one at the Edwards theater in Nampa is set REAL LOOSE then cuz I watched my niece win that bastard 2 out of 3 attempts...
 
She won major prizes or the little prizes at the bottom of the machine? If it was the smaller prizes, you can win that pretty much ever time if you don't set it right.

Brian

I suppose the one at the Edwards theater in Nampa is set REAL LOOSE then cuz I watched my niece win that bastard 2 out of 3 attempts...
 
She won major prizes or the little prizes at the bottom of the machine? If it was the smaller prizes, you can win that pretty much ever time if you don't set it right.

Brian

She walked away with two I-Podesque MP3 players (not sure if they were actual ipods or the shuffle things or what not)...
 
These things have a sweet spot that will automatically end your timer if you reach it, usually an inch or two from finish. Make it to the end with 25 seconds left? Too bad, you lose. I managed that one time-- fun to watch double digits jump to zero.

Namco seriously sucks these days with their redemption titles.
 
I won the jackpot load of a ton of tickets first time I ever played this at a Chuck E Cheese. I didn't even go fast as I didn't know what to do. After that, when I knew what to do, no matter how fast I went it wouldn't let me win.
 
It does cheat but not nearly as bad as Stacker cheats. How clean the touchscreen is and how rough the skin on your finger is makes a huge difference in how easy the game is to win.

Its not a touchscreen, its an iR LED matrix. The LED's are along the edges of the screen. The system figures out where your finger is depending on which LED's cant see each other.
 
Its not a touchscreen, its an iR LED matrix. The LED's are along the edges of the screen. The system figures out where your finger is depending on which LED's cant see each other.

Yea, and the cleanliness of the screen and your hands helps determine how accurately you can drag your finger around the maze, so it does in fact matter.

I've only ever played this in the ticket redemption version at the local CEC. I actually quite like it - are the ticket ones usually setup for cheating? I'm thinking that the local one isn't (it's just setup with very tight time limits). If I saw one of the ticket ones cheap enough, I'd probably put that in my basement.
 
Yea, and the cleanliness of the screen and your hands helps determine how accurately you can drag your finger around the maze, so it does in fact matter.

I've only ever played this in the ticket redemption version at the local CEC. I actually quite like it - are the ticket ones usually setup for cheating? I'm thinking that the local one isn't (it's just setup with very tight time limits). If I saw one of the ticket ones cheap enough, I'd probably put that in my basement.

The ticket ones are indeed. Like someone above me said, I won it first try with jackpot at CEC and then played my 25 seconds left round and it totally screwed me over. Tried five more times, with 5, 4, and 16 seconds left, and all of them quit at the end automatically.

I believe you can turn the cheapness at least down, though, for home use.
 
The faster you go the quicker the timer goes, they key to winning the jackpot in the way the maze is drawn. If the it is drawn with a few inches of straight lines towards to goal it is very easy to win the jackpot. Draw slow and stready, then quick swipe to the end. I've been pretty successful playing this at CEC, and Gameworks. Oh, and trying to be to accurate will kill you :)
 
don't know how stacker works but have you tubed this one and yes as the levels progress it literally cheats and is impossible to win until the machine allows you. Really same as claw machines where the claw will only have enough strength to grab the prize every 10th time or whatever.

Yeah, but how many people have to lose before the operator pays for the prize that one person wins?
 
Yea, and the cleanliness of the screen and your hands helps determine how accurately you can drag your finger around the maze, so it does in fact matter.

I suppose if your hands are nasty and/or the screen is nasty dirty then your ability to drag your finger around matters. FWIW, I've never seen those screens get all that dirty.
 
There was one a couple of auctions ago up in Mesquite. There was a dead spot on the screen. I don't know if it is a touch screen or iR matrix, but if the maze encompassed those dots on the screen, you were dead. Since it was on freeplay and there weren't any prizes, I sat and tried it about a dozen times and whenever that part of the screen was in the maze, your position couldn't get past it.

As with any "skill" payout redemption, if it cheats, it should be blown up.

ken
 
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