Beating 5 Scam Arcade Games with Science

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).
I started a company called CrunchLabs where we build a toy together and then I teach you all the juicy physics for how it works. So if you want to learn to think like an engineer and have really fun time doing it, check out the current promotion where you get 2 FREE boxes at crunchlabs.com
You should also go subscribe to the CrunchLabs KZbin channel cause we’ve got some bangers in the pipeline- / crunchlabs
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

[Mark Rober]

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!

[CeeGeeTee]

People who love Mark Rober 👇 👇 👇

[BenjiTheBnny]

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[Coolwall1113]

Im a big fan!

[Justaperson102]

Hello. I am excited to see what the next videos are gonna be!

[Breeze]

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.

[blindleader42]

Minimum wage buys zero give-a-shits.

[Yung Zyon]

I make entertaining videos as well🙏

[Vali_BG]

@blindleader42 True, but sometimes you don't need more than zero.

[Hustle Coder]

@blindleader42 it depends some of them care like its their own business

[Deleted Devil Deleted Angel]

@Yung Zyon yeah but no cool science builds and learning things in the process

[Toni Black]

Imagine being an employee at an arcade and seeing Mark walk in, knowing what is to come.

[janbiel12]

The worker doesn't care 2 shits. It's not like Mark is taking their money from their salary. The one that loses is the boss

[HyperGamer]

@janbiel12 yeah, the boss still has to pay the salary

[TheSH1N1GAM1]

@janbiel12 the boss still doesn't lose

[Uhtred]

Yea cuz losing a large stuffed animal would be super bad for business

[James Bael]

Imagine you're a person posting imagine comments.

[Calvin c]

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.

[NEEDbacon]

I've recently been on a binge of Mark's videos thanks to his Glitterbomb 5.0. And have come to the conclusion he just KNOWS people.

[Midnight Meadows]

What?! Omg thanks for telling me!

[Tyler Heister]

That’s wild! Seems like a chill dude too

[David Iverson]

What's really weird is that if you wikipedia "andrew herbert" it goes to a bio of a computer scientist.

[Muaz]

@Tyler Heister It's always the strong guys that are actually chill!

[turntableable]

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!

[Haapsalu]

Amazing lmao

[Carpe Lunam]

big cappin

[Zolliq]

@Carpe Lunam im pretty sure thats the joke

[Vlad Ivascanu]

@Carpe Lunam its a JOKE bro

[Goldfranks]

😂😂😂

[Luigi Battaglioli]

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]

Yeah the whole $10 worth of gifts

[Luigi Battaglioli]

Ahahahah true, hit up a D&B’s tho, and that may be a different story @Ryan Robinson

[MERP_plays]

Haha 😂😂

[Lil Dragonite]

Yup- 🤣

[LegionX]

@Luigi Battaglioli dave and busters is the exception

[Josiah Herring]

I guarantee you, as someone who works in an arcade, if anyone I work with caught you doing this, we'd all think you were really cool and warn you what our manager looks like

[WILDBrooke13]

I’d have thought you’d get kicked out

[Justaboireally]

Employee: Hey Tony show this guy how business is made round ere Manager Tony:💪👶👊

[Mr Wafflez]

@Justaboireally uncle Joe on his way to touch him 🦶🏼😩🦶🏼

[HIPLSNOLS]

@WILDBrooke13 i mean technically theres no rule against it

[Me]

he cheated back 🙂

[corby smith]

Imagine walking into the arcade seeing 9 jackpots go off while a guy leaves with 9 different backpacks smiling

[ItzMalick]

Yo famm, I’m a small content creator, and I make a variety of entertaining reactions, vlogs, and a range of other content and I’m still working on quality but I guarantee you will find something you will enjoy! 🙏🏾❤

[Gregg Rubin]

Imagine all the arcades closing.

[Dennisddt]

@ItzMalick Shush

[kikhuy]

frr

[Water Drinker]

He really just went and made the power fist from Fallout to beat someones score on the punching bag.

[KäsekuchenLP]

And didn’t even manage to do it

[Evilmudbug]

@KäsekuchenLP He had Unarmed level 9

[notfiveo]

My problem is I come up with solutions to problems that don’t exist.

[KäsekuchenLP]

@notfiveo you should work in the industry. They do that all the time!

[Joshua Packard]

@KäsekuchenLP yeah, but a pez dispenser did

[TheAdvertisement]

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.

[brocki95xxx]

You could go to jail for fraud because of this. It es essentially the same thing as tampering with casino machines. And you can also be subject to being sued by the owner for damages.

[inspiRational99]

Plaintiff: Your honor, we are seeking damages of 10,000 tickets which equates to about $2.

[brocki95xxx]

@inspiRational99 I think it is more than 2$

[TheAdvertisement]

@brocki95xxx Nah lmao. Arcades don't have any clause like that, they just act like it cus they wish they were casinos.

[anything youcando]

I bet it is already arranged with the owner beforehand.

[TheAncientWolf]

I miss when arcades and amusement halls were largely dominated by games of skill, where challenge was both an incentive to keep playing and a protection on return.

[TrickShotz]

I sure would need a ”dad finder”! Seems like a cool unit!

[Kr1shD4F1sh]

That’s tough

[Cathrine Udry]

That's sad XD

[foxicecube]

i know how that feels 👁👄👁

[CornDuck]

You will need one if your dad goes to get the milk XD

[tucker]

DARK!

[Lisa Carey]

As a mom of 3 boys, I thank you for your "cool" example of science.

[Jarl420]

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.

[AsianPersuasion]

all fun and games until you have to wait 5 minutes for all 1000 tickets to come out.

[Daniel Zwanink]

@AsianPersuasion thats the best part though

[sock u]

@AsianPersuasion I thinking each ticket it worth about $0.01.

[Caden Huey]

Finally it’s here

[RoboGuy555]

Where I live, we have physical tickets

[OpticPolarBear]

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

[decal]

I worked at Main Event for a while and it’s set to 20% there

[LegoWormNoah101]

​@decal could they be set to 100% or close?

[OpticPolarBear]

Where I work doesn't do 100% but I know they can it just makes them lose money

[olektrims]

Which arcade?

[Matt Johnson]

@LegoWormNoah101 they can set it to whatever they want but legally there’s limit of what percentage. Also if people never win they’d learn quickly if they come regularly, same teddies for long periods, therefore won’t spend money on them

[Aditya Narayanan]

15:50 Mark is probably the only guy who keeps his diamond play button alongside tools and equipments

[Super plushie dude spd]

I love how the guy does not care that he’s playing against a backpack 😂 10:04

[Mega Meerkat]

He probably expected some wacky stunt. Its Mark Rober after all.

[Shining Armor]

The idea of walking into an arcade with multiple backpacks is hilarious to me.

[Wolfling Gon]

Plot twist: it’s one back with everything inside

[🌸 𝒮𝓌𝘦𝘦𝓉 𝒮𝑡𝑟𝑎𝓌𝑏𝘦𝑟𝑟𝑦 🍓]

Shiningarmor hiiii

[Team Of One]

Just come in with a bunch of people and say you are holding it for them.

[Jsiah Bush]

Imagine how much this video would sell for on vhs back in the 90s

[Quinn Blackmer]

I’ve said my whole life “arcades are casinos for kids but with zero regulation”

[Kline Hicks]

you arent wrong

[Seth Roberts]

I worded it differently, and said "kids that spend too much time in arcades grow up to be casino addicts"

[Tricky Trey Perfected]

@Seth Roberts while true, I like OPs way of putting it. Puts the blame on the arcades and casinos for employing malicious techniques to keep you spending (and losing) money instead of putting blame on the addicts for falling into those very purposefully laid traps. Then again, I guess you aren't putting blame on anyone here, you're just pointing out something which may actually be entirely true.

[Lazy Fox Plays]

In Alaska they are regulated and treated exactly like casinos. And D&B is a great example of if. All the games are just for tokens.

[Justin]

Or casinos are arcades for adults but with regulation

[Carl N]

Mark always comes up with the most interesting inventions

[עדוש אודלס]

"But you'll notice, there is no rule against spring loaded piston punching gloves" -mark, 2022

[Huck H]

Great video Mark ! , always a joy to watch you 😮

[Spark]

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.

[Me Smile]

Do u real liked a kid a merch of preston

[Jman Hampton]

I guess those claw machines really do have a grip on our wallets 🤑

[provat roy]

My favorite part is that his pez dispenser contraption is so much more simple than his original one.

[Á:/]

Yup. No "sunk cost fallacy" hindering the process, and a closer look at the assumptions for a better opportunity. Impressive improvement.

[Sulev-Madis Silber]

engineering at the best

[Cheddar Sun Chips Y e s]

Bruh

[101jir]

And as he mentioned, the weight of the device has to be considered. Furthermore, I would presume he underestimated the effect of recoil taking a cut too.

[Runar]

Even that is way to complicated

[T&Q]

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]

tf is a greeter

[Screaming Cactus]

@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

[BioClone]

Mark: "worked as expected!" _proceeds to recover the modified ball_ Arcade guy: Hey, you are not supposed to take the ball with you! Mark: yeah... but... ahhh Arcade guy: Heh, it never fails! thats at least 30$ on hardware :D

[Limo Man]

To be honest, I really want to be an engineer like him. Im just too young for now.

[Michael]

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😂😂

[302 Tripl3 AAA Battery]

Mark: makes a weapon, Government: “What’s that for” Mark: “beating my friend in the arcade”

[NaturalOne]

My mind goes straight to Exo suits, like those straight out of Advanced Warfare or something.

[That Guy]

Homie, What?

[SHale]

Government: “And did you beat him?” Mark: “No”

[302 Tripl3 AAA Battery]

@SHale 😂😂😂

[Archer The creeper killer]

dude it's the power fist from fallout lol

[PhoreCite The DoleScum Warrior]

Would love to see you do the fruit machines too 😂😂

[NinjaTu2]

"Sir why do you need 3 backpacks in an arcade" Mark: Arcade:

[Warren Cash]

To carry home my won toys?

[Jimmy B]

Well played, Mark!

[Michael Beringer]

Such a cool find! The class and the labs sound addicting.

[na na]

I can't believe you built all those things. The time that's needed. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

[Wan]

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.

[MasterKey]

Yea it’s flawless

[Mark C]

Except it has no aiming mechanism or power adjustment. Even if you could, it'd take a few balls minimum to calibrate it

[player_8008]

@Mark C what would it need power or aiming for? it's only defense

[Deleted Devil Deleted Angel]

@Mark C its defense

[Nate Griepentrog]

The dad finder is so useful I finally can find my dad after 15 years!

[Rock Fan]

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....

[Kristian engberg]

youre videos are really fun to watch

[Mikan Gaming]

imagine you pick up the backpack and its still firing the balls and then you panic and then the workers see it and then your kicked out

[Se Le herb king]

Why do I always feel like there’s a solenoid in everything he makes

[Brian Bagenstose]

Imagine trying this 30 years ago when cards didn't exist. You'd need a second backpack just to hold all the paper tickets!

*POAH JUST GIVE ME RECENT HATE ALREADY!!* *MY GOAL IS BECOME THE MOST HATED KZbinR ON EARTH!* 🎥🤬

[Grady Stanley]

More like 6 years ago

[AlexWithAStar]

@Grady Stanley Definitely more than that. They may have been around but they even 10 years ago they were still mainly cards.

[MinecraftTestSquad]

@AlexWithAStar No, depends where you live. 10 years ago I'd never heard of an arcade with cards (and I still went to them then, being 9)

[Indigo Industrial]

No Raspberry Pi 30 years ago. You'd have to use an Amiga 500.

[Magda Bagda]

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.

[Emily Rupczewski]

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.

[jordan ender]

Mark casually walking into arcades with 5 back packs

[SenseiPog]

I swear, Mark takes cheating in arcades to the next level

[Jennifer Wong]

I wish we could clone you Mark. What a better world it would be to have a couple Mark's in every school. A lot more mischief too!

[RenchesAndSords]

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

[dareddevil6]

Mark out here making a side hustle of tutoring but in a way that is much cooler than just learning how to pass tests

[Michele 'HemlokHex' White]

Love ya work, Mark. Looking forward to getting my kid and engineer friend some build boxes for this Christmas ❤

[Sonar Blast]

It's cool how he speaks science casually while everyone else has no idea what he's doing

[Tobias D.]

Imagine people coming into the arcade and wondering how they could ever beat the record on the machines...

*POAH JUST GIVE ME RECENT HATE ALREADY!!* *MY GOAL IS BECOME THE MOST HATED KZbinR ON EARTH!* 👃🏾👎🏽

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[Nggodplayer]

He probably told them what he did and they reset the records.

[icelfrost]

@ ok i just reported you lol

[This guy Dannyyy]

@ Mark Rober needs to make a video why bots exists on KZbin

[Fernando Alday]

This is why i wanna be an engineer

[Celessa Laike]

I went to an arcade the day this came out! It was so useful! Thank you so much!

[Lil Dragonite]

With al, the knowledge from your videos, I’m either going to follow my passion to be a scientist, or become a mechanical engineer.

[せいちゃん]

40 minutes in and I already think it’s going to be so fun. Your videos are always so freaking fun

[Reiden Titas]

But it's 20 min?

[Jesper Aung]

It’s funny how no matter the solution, whether it is training or going to college, both essentially tell the viewer to, “Git gud.” 😂

[Daniel Fernandez]

This is fantastic.

[Cannotdophantom]

First comment lmao

[K]

@Cannotdophantom no

[Cannotdophantom]

No I’m the first commenter on this comment

[FunnyBlox]

Eleganto

[James Patton]

This is you advertising your channel.

[Conservos]

This guy could potentially make the most watched video of all time someday.

[Junior Whitehead]

Your putting businesses out of business 😂😂❤ love your channel keep it up ❤

[Lucian S.]

I need to make friends with this dude and travel the country winning prizes

[The Dumb Finnish guy]

He spends so much time making great videos 😊

[Tim D]

Mark Rober is a national treasure

[Henry Zhang]

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.

[Haryen]

He worked making a hover that went to mars at Nasa.

[Nx AniClip]

We've seen what happened to Elon Musk against humanity anger and hate to him. Some people are just looking at stuff based on distrust and not facts..

[alexsp]

he is literally the guy inventing secret agent gadgets and inspiring heist mission movie directors for tools

[PrimateSoul]

Im so grateful for him and if he can make $ to have fun and inspire its great! He takes on students each season.

[Gongoozler I am]

He really is better than Elon Musk in that way :)

[Nevasoba]

I am impressed with ur dedication to the craft hat tip to u sir. You took cheating to a whole different level

[iamupinacloud]

Awesome stuff, Mark!

[steven wolfe]

A bowling ball that moves as you move? We NEED this for beyblades like yesterday.

[Felix Cruz]

You make engineering fun bro. Always hated the maths...but end results it worth all of it

[OMMiner]

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.

[Pericó]

Mark can singlehandedly bankrupt the arcade sector if he wants to. He's just choosing not to.

[ItzMalick]

Yo famm, I’m a small content creator, and I make a variety of entertaining reactions, vlogs, and a range of other content and I’m still working on quality but I guarantee you will find something you will enjoy! 🙏🏾❤

[Normal]

tbh not really. Even getting jackpots don't do anything, as almost always the prizes are really cheap to buy. not to mention the arcade owners would catch on pretty quickly

[Jeweled Peach]

@ItzMalick You already got a big audience though

[TK2FTW]

Mans a ex nasa engineer

[Kevin Lam]

He'll bankrupt himself first.

[YOUR_DIRECTOR]

Why can I understand mark more than my engineering class

[Thomas Mueller]

Time for mark to open a fair arcade and magically turn a profit. Would love to see CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!

[Drew Ross]

Thankyou to the arcade for allowing Mark to do these tests

[511ab]

Mark your channel is awesome. My kid watches it every day. You are his hero.

[Your dad in disguise]

The actual genius move was playing the plants vs zombies theme to keep us watching

[Allison Pari]

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.

[toasterbread75]

im dead

[Jim Li]

I mean would you rather defend the world from aliens or just win a bunch of arcade games

[Garrett Carr]

Well said

[Leif]

*When they show up

[All Sound Construction LLC #ASCPNW #ascpnw]

Dude, that was not only cool, but inspiring🎉

[Kessy Waps]

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?

[DuckyD00mNo1]

Now I need to get arcades to have more fighting games

[MassiveTrackHunter]

These are THE BEST. So fun to see science applied in the place most of us spent time happily losing our money as kids. REVENGE.. XD XD XD

[Manny Benitez]

You better have gotten a charm for that backpack for basically carrying your jackpots

[Thiago Moreno]

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.

[Sheen]

Watch the STEM episode about Simpsons S31 E12 😳 Since they predict everything

[mark_]

@Sheen No, I don't think I will.

[AlmightyK]

@Sheen they didn't predict squat

[Duck Meat]

@Sheen Simpsons past season 4? Yuck

[Xianxia]

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.

[Top Fjsls]

It’s all fun and games until you run out of time to get the ball back and it’s trapped there forever 😂

[Robert Lovelace]

I Thank Mark for Inspiring my daughters interest in science.

[Recon]

Love your content mark keep doing what your doing

[HAAR10M]

You are awesome Mark! I am 40 but still get fascinated with all the stuff you do!

[TYE Arcade]

Such a banger video Mark!

[snickers bar]

oh my

[James chArlwa]

Again

[Coolio Star Stache]

uh oh

[Morgs🇵🇬]

Agreed!

[EmptyStudent]

Yea #1 on trending too

[Elo]

This is the ultimate Jock and Nerd friendship

[Daryl Kanofski]

No words to describe this but can't stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Stinkyshoe32]

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

[tamirion]

Imagine being Mark's kid and going to the arcade with him

[Joe JJ]

What was the timing input for the ball drop robot? How did it know where the buckets are?

[Shadow clan shadow Ops]

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.

[cosmiceyness]

the fact that nobody thought the bags were bombs is amazing

[Ant My Dude]

@cosmiceyness he obviously got permission from the arcade owner to try his invention and record inside the building.

[adam ridza]

wadadww

[Erickesk]

Well he’s making money of it

[JustAnotherNewbi]

I didn’t know so many of these games involved lasers and stuff! Cool vid :D

[Glitch]

Imagine being the boss of the arcade and see mark walk in. Mind: something bad bout to happen

[MicroRest]

Leaving a backpack like that anywhere would probably have someone call on you no matter what.

[Ace Uni-Rider]

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.

[Me Smile]

Do u realised a kid a merch of preston

[P J]

A $15 "item" that costs 50c when bought in bulk from China.

[P J]

@Me Smile You high bro ?

[some guy named Toni]

For me, whenever i go in an arcade, i usually play the experience games, especially racing games

[Neanderthal]

Mark Rober: Okay today were taking down a crime syndicate in a foreign country using spies and counter espionage Also Mark Rober: Okay so today were going to get lots of points in ski ball

[Brett]

😂 also “skeeball”

[Yung Zyon]

I create entertaining videos as well 🤠

[E K White]

Because arcades are just a softer crime in disguise. Isaac has $20 in his pocket, gramma has $20000 in her bank, both get wiped out by greed. Isaac should prob have known better though.

[Deleted Devil Deleted Angel]

@Brett in some countries its called ski ball

[Frogggy100]

@Yung Zyon NO ONE CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARES