Talk:Stacker (arcade game)

message: It dynamically adjusts the required timing to hit the right block.  If the game cannot afford to give out the prize you are attempting (usually the major prize), it will randomly pick one of the rows between the minor and major prize rows. It will change the timing so that if you don't hit it exactly halfway between the light before and light after's time (roughly 1 ms) it jumps to the one after it.  Since no human being can hit a 1ms window on command, no one gets it, even though it's technically possible.  Once it's taken enough money, it starts stretching out the timing such that it's actually as hittable as it looks, or close to it.
Every stop the light game does this when it doesn't want to pay out.  It makes the timing MUCH tighter than it appears to be, and if the right light is on, but your press is not inside the shrunken timing window, it jumps off (on those cyclones it jumps off randomly up to 2 or three lights in EITHER direction, to deny you the information on of you are really too early or late).  Even though technically every game is winnable, the true timing window is not shown so you do not have the information or the reflexes required for the win.  They get away with this because it's really hard to tell without a high speed video camera, and because of the way the bulbs also light up the neighboring bulbs.
The only way to reasonably win the machine is to be able to tell when it's jumping, and play when it's not.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.211.60.25 (talk) 18:57, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  How the darn thing actually works 

message: I saw a product brochure for Stacker online on the website for LAI Games that said that operators can change the skill level to be from very easy (approx. 1 in 20 tries), to easy (app. 1 in 50 tries), to medium (approx. 1 in 100 tries) etc all the way up to 1 in 800. BUT it said those amounts of plays per win are approximate because it is a game of skill. I think when the odds are 1 out of 800 (approximately) it probably isn't much of a game of skill anymore.
I am itching to play this game but there aren't any around me locally! I suspect that if you play one with cheap prizes a few tries of stopping the block ahead of time should work. I've seen a lot of people online talking about winning them.
Imerson 23:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article has become full of POV and needs to be edited 

message: http://web.archive.org/web/20060509142318/http://www.shafferdistributing.com/manuals/lai_Stacker_SKILL_1st-Ed_manual.pdf 78.151.39.219 (talk) 19:11, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a new source for the operators manual. 

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replies: text: hello there cyber all i fucking need is a new stacker machine 142.114.199.99 (talk) 02:27, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
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I joined earlier today and while looking through articles to help contribute, I noticed that the section on the distribution was only mentioning Europe. If anyone could help me out on this it would be greatly appreciated!
EarthCore9999 (talk) 20:46, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution POV issue