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Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: hypernova on February 28, 2011, 05:27:47 pm ---It said "start-ups" which I took as meaning plugging in the machine/turning it on.  511 games in a highly trafficked arcade wouldn't last very long.

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Either way it would have been easy for the arcade owners to know there was something fishy going on. If after 511 times all the wack-a-moles bought on the same day would have failed. If it was the amount of games played, they'd all fail within a month of each other.

All the games would be failing a year and a half after they were bought so even the company he worked for would figure it out.

I second SavannahLion idea. He should have waited until the counter hit 500 and then have the games fail at a randomized rate. This way they won’t fail to soon. Some would fail close to 500 days others would fail years later.

Doubling his rate after a year was also a little obvious. Using the randomizing, he could have gone up slowly so it wouldn’t be as obvious. Whoever was luckily enough to have a machine that didn't fail right away, would end up being unlucky by paying higher fees.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 28, 2011, 05:57:22 pm ---Either way it would have been easy for the arcade owners to know there was something fishy going on. If after 511 times all the wack-a-moles bought on the same day would have failed. If it was the amount of games played, they'd all fail within a month of each

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You're giving way too much credit to the repair staff.  Repair strategy may as well be wack-a-mole itself.  They wouldn't notice that type of pattern.

ark_ader:
Sounds like Windows ME or Vista 64.

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 01, 2011, 10:30:12 am ---You're giving way too much credit to the repair staff.  Repair strategy may as well be wack-a-mole itself.  They wouldn't notice that type of pattern.

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Someone noticed.

ChadTower:

The originating article says that the manufacturer is the one that noticed.

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