Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
HI Tom As always, you are so informative. Thanks for the nice info. So then I can come to the conclusion that with these machines its only a thing about luck. NO skill is involved. It works then like a cacino, your chances of winning money is 1 out of 50? have a sunny day -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 21 December 2009 09:08 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines Hi Nicol, Yes, we have those machines here in the United States too. However, they aren't exactly fair. The main reason is they are specifically designed not to be able to pick up the larger stuffed toys, and in many other cases there is a switch in the arm that prevents it from grabbing the toys too tightly. In other words the game cheats. As a result you have a very slim chance in actually getting a toy out of one of those machines. However, my uncle has good luck playing with those toy machines. He starts by going for the smaller stuffed toys, and those not packed too tightly into the machine. Some times it takes a couple of tries to actually get one of the toys out, because he will have it part way to the exit when the arm just lets go of it. Still they can be beaten if you have enough money and patients to take out the toys one by one even if it isn't exactly the toy you want. I remember a case a few years back we were in the mall and my uncle stood at one of those machines playing all day. he would take quarters from kids and he would get little stuffed lions, monkeys, dogs, whatever out of the machine left and right. When I asked him how he did that he said there is a trick to it, and you pretty much have to know which toys the arm will take and which ones it will just drop or not get a good grip on. Just because there is a big panda sitting on top of the heap of stuffed toys doesn't mean the machine can actually get it out. However, it is something most kids would try and get out spending lots of quarters on a single big toy instead of going for something less desirable but more accessible and likely to get. As far as an accessible computerized version goes it could be interesting. Although, I'm not sure on how to make it so that it would be realistic. A lot of people don't get anything out of those machines, and there has to be a pretty high statistical chance against getting certain toys out of the machine. There is a lot of factors such as size, wait, and how tightly the toy is in the machine. how often the arm simply drops a toy because it doesn't have a good tight grip on it. Lots of things to think about here. Cheers! Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Hi Nicol, Yeah, you could say that. Your chances of getting lucky at one of those toy machines is pretty low so in a way it is like gambling. You throw a few coins in the machine and see what you can get. Nicol Oosthuizen wrote: HI Tom As always, you are so informative. Thanks for the nice info. So then I can come to the conclusion that with these machines its only a thing about luck. NO skill is involved. It works then like a cacino, your chances of winning money is 1 out of 50? have a sunny day --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
I have seen these machines, we have them in England too, and in America I believe (sinse one featured in the film toystory), though the background music may be various things not just the lambada you mention. The problem is that they are actually a horrendous scam, sinse the jaws on the crane arm only tighten properly one time in about 50 (there is actually a mechanical switch inside the machine that assures this). As to making it an audio game, well I'm personally not sure about that, sinse it'd be a rather symple one even for a basic arcade game, and would need a good few extra features to be interesting to play, and by the time you'd added those features, your probably talking about a completely different game entirely. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Nicol Oosthuizen noosthui...@sars.gov.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:56 PM Subject: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
As a full game it would lack a lot of depth, but you could always borrow from Kirby's Adventure and make it into a bonus game. In that game there was a large Kirby and a small one that you could grab for extra lives. Interesting fact about the jaws not clamping properly. I didn't know that. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 7:19 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines I have seen these machines, we have them in England too, and in America I believe (sinse one featured in the film toystory), though the background music may be various things not just the lambada you mention. The problem is that they are actually a horrendous scam, sinse the jaws on the crane arm only tighten properly one time in about 50 (there is actually a mechanical switch inside the machine that assures this). As to making it an audio game, well I'm personally not sure about that, sinse it'd be a rather symple one even for a basic arcade game, and would need a good few extra features to be interesting to play, and by the time you'd added those features, your probably talking about a completely different game entirely. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Nicol Oosthuizen noosthui...@sars.gov.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:56 PM Subject: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
indeed the tune may very. I saw some with no music at all using retro sfx instead and I even saw one with a techno beat with fred saying yaba daba do! if you managed to get the bear. however according to brainiac if you get the bear or not is very much controled. the first thing is the not proper clamping like dark said but there is another factor. there is a controled amount of tries that will win. for instance each 5 tries the pickup is successful. so it goes lose, lose, lose, lose, win and then the cycle repeats. teh 5 was just an example. as for the game idea, not so sure about it. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4333 (20090813) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Would be cool. Also know of one or two of these machines in the wrong type of place where the people have tried things like turning them over to get the teddies to fall out in other ways... Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Nicol Oosthuizen noosthui...@sars.gov.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 2:56 PM Subject: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4706 (20091221) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4706 (20091221) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Hi Nicol! Oh, I know them very good. You can find these machines in most contries in gaming centres. A game simmilar to this concept would be really gread and shouldn't be to tricky for create. My problem is, I can't imagine how this really would sound like in an audio version. Do you have an imagination how this could sound like? Best regards, Claudio Zeni --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Yes, that is unfortunately true about the crane jaws, but I suppose the owners of the game would lose a lot of cash if everyone could win teddybears. the kirby series in general was famous for having innumerable minigames included. In kirby's nightmare in dremland for the Gba (an expanded and heavily updated version of Kirby's adventure), you could both play these games from the title screen, and also enter doors on the game map to play them for extra lives. thus far, the main audio game I've seen do this is lords of the galaxy, which did it very well, though Tarzan junior similarly had a few mini bonus games too. Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Hi Nicol, Yes, we have those machines here in the United States too. However, they aren't exactly fair. The main reason is they are specifically designed not to be able to pick up the larger stuffed toys, and in many other cases there is a switch in the arm that prevents it from grabbing the toys too tightly. In other words the game cheats. As a result you have a very slim chance in actually getting a toy out of one of those machines. However, my uncle has good luck playing with those toy machines. He starts by going for the smaller stuffed toys, and those not packed too tightly into the machine. Some times it takes a couple of tries to actually get one of the toys out, because he will have it part way to the exit when the arm just lets go of it. Still they can be beaten if you have enough money and patients to take out the toys one by one even if it isn't exactly the toy you want. I remember a case a few years back we were in the mall and my uncle stood at one of those machines playing all day. he would take quarters from kids and he would get little stuffed lions, monkeys, dogs, whatever out of the machine left and right. When I asked him how he did that he said there is a trick to it, and you pretty much have to know which toys the arm will take and which ones it will just drop or not get a good grip on. Just because there is a big panda sitting on top of the heap of stuffed toys doesn't mean the machine can actually get it out. However, it is something most kids would try and get out spending lots of quarters on a single big toy instead of going for something less desirable but more accessible and likely to get. As far as an accessible computerized version goes it could be interesting. Although, I'm not sure on how to make it so that it would be realistic. A lot of people don't get anything out of those machines, and there has to be a pretty high statistical chance against getting certain toys out of the machine. There is a lot of factors such as size, wait, and how tightly the toy is in the machine. how often the arm simply drops a toy because it doesn't have a good tight grip on it. Lots of things to think about here. Cheers! Nicol Oosthuizen wrote: Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Hi Dark, Yeah, they are a scam alright. I haven't found many people who actually have beaten one of those things. My uncle is the only person I've met who has any luck at all with those machines, and he says it is because there is a trick to getting things out of one of them. They usually put the heavy stuff on top so it is particularly hard to get to the lighter smaller toys on the bottom that the arm could actually get out without much difficulty. The entire purpose of those machines seams to be to take your money without much of a real chance of getting anything out of them. Still they have been out for years so people must still play them and enjoy them. dark wrote: I have seen these machines, we have them in England too, and in America I believe (sinse one featured in the film toystory), though the background music may be various things not just the lambada you mention. The problem is that they are actually a horrendous scam, sinse the jaws on the crane arm only tighten properly one time in about 50 (there is actually a mechanical switch inside the machine that assures this). As to making it an audio game, well I'm personally not sure about that, sinse it'd be a rather symple one even for a basic arcade game, and would need a good few extra features to be interesting to play, and by the time you'd added those features, your probably talking about a completely different game entirely. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
Hi Claudio, The sounds should be easy enough. Since these toy machines usually have all kinds of stuffed animals besides bears you could give each toy a sound like the animal it is suppose to be. A toy dog could bark, a toy cat could meow, a lion could roar, a bear could growl, a cow could moo, whatever. So making up sounds for the various toys would be pretty simple I should think. Claudio Zeni wrote: Hi Nicol! Oh, I know them very good. You can find these machines in most contries in gaming centres. A game simmilar to this concept would be really gread and shouldn't be to tricky for create. My problem is, I can't imagine how this really would sound like in an audio version. Do you have an imagination how this could sound like? Best regards, Claudio Zeni --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
yes I have once. although it was a gift not necessarily a teddy. we also have a game where you put a coin in a slot and click a trigger. you only have around 30 seconds to click that trigger because after that the coin will drop back in the basket. even if you hit the trigger there is a 50-50 chance the coin will not come back out. these game ideas are simple ones. I think pkb or anyone here that has time can probably do it. they don't need much effert. the music for the bear machine may be a bit copywrited so it couldn't be the same but I don't see any issue. one thing though is the machines themselves don't make much of a racket at least the ones I saw. At 01:56 a.m. 22/12/2009, you wrote: Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines
I was thinking of this type to be a casino style. you gamble some cash, then draw a card or something. I know its not correct but that would make it interesting. At 02:19 a.m. 22/12/2009, you wrote: I have seen these machines, we have them in England too, and in America I believe (sinse one featured in the film toystory), though the background music may be various things not just the lambada you mention. The problem is that they are actually a horrendous scam, sinse the jaws on the crane arm only tighten properly one time in about 50 (there is actually a mechanical switch inside the machine that assures this). As to making it an audio game, well I'm personally not sure about that, sinse it'd be a rather symple one even for a basic arcade game, and would need a good few extra features to be interesting to play, and by the time you'd added those features, your probably talking about a completely different game entirely. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Nicol Oosthuizen noosthui...@sars.gov.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:56 PM Subject: [Audyssey] new game idea: teddy bear machines Attention all south African members: arrie willem and jakob But you guys in other parts of the world may also comment. Have you seen those machines where one can win a teddy bear by beating a little game? My mom has always told me about these machines, they are very tricky. Basically you are using an arm to pick up one of the teddy bears inside the machine. You have to press buttons similarly to those found on joysticks, the arm is inside the machine. Its very tricky, most of the times the teddy bear falls off the arm into the bucket before one can retrieve it. Basically one have to move the arm forward somewhat like in a sidescroller, till the arm riches a teddybear, then one have to try and pick up the bear with this arm and bring it to the side of the bucket and lift it high enough so that the machine releases it. The machine will try its best to drop the bear again. So how would you guys feel about a game similar to these teddy bear machines ?Of course, I am not the potential developer, I just wish that a game like these teddy bear machines can be made. The teddy bear machines I have been to, while you play the game and also while the machine idles until someone else plays, the music these machines plays, is the lambada tune instrumentally. Have you guys in other parts of the world also seen these teddy bear machines?Some of them even contains watches. A teddy bear catch game would rock. have a sunny day Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
