Awesome 90's Clean Sweep Crane Arcade Game - claw machine, true classic!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another really cool arcade game video for you tonight check this one out does anything scream 1991 more than this this is a clean sweep arcade game crane machine you would be surprised at how popular these things are every time we get in a crane it sells quick people just like them I don't know why and just as a little clue they're all rigged I've got the keys believe me they're rigged I'm gonna show you here in a minute they're all rigged but people love them it just you know reminds you of that whole lark aid thing these things were all over the place so this is probably my favorite one you know they just look cool man that red cabinet it's just awesome we got this in usually these are pretty inexpensive you can actually still make money with them if you put them out on location they still are smart industries made this we're indoor use only Clean Sweep doubts I had one called Bear Claw that was a very popular use the same boards and things that look just like this it just said bear claw instead of clean sweep I don't really know what the difference was but you see those sometimes smart industries corporation probably made in the USA in Des Moines Iowa so we've got some little stuffed animals in here I won't bore you with actually playing it you can see there's they had some brackets on here for security reasons these big hats that were across the front every time we get a game it's got that we take that crap off throw it right in the trash because we want them to look like they used to now of course it's got holes in it now it's not how it originally came but at least it doesn't have big brackets hanging off the side and stuff that's unnecessary so these pretty cool it's got a little door down at the bottom it's got a door up here so if you turn both of these little door opens these are some of the keys for the bottom and for the for the front door they're very simple you just got the little joystick with the button whenever you hit this button on the top it presses the little switch underneath and on the port here you can see there is a little that's a little potentiometer you turn that and it makes the claw stronger or weaker now that actually was mainly used now laughs and say they're rigged and everything but the way these worked if you if you set them where you never won they didn't make any money so most operators didn't actually do that they would set them where you do when you can't win but it was kind of a back when these came out it was kind of a it was kind of a you know too soft science so basically what you did was depending on how heavy that animals were and how much they how big they were and the size of your claw in your machine because they made different ones and you know the stuffed animals are different sizes and also depending on how packed down in there this stuff is you would turn that little knob because if you had little tiny like if you had you know certain things that were just a perfect size where the claw grabbed it really good you'd have to loosen that claw up because you don't want somebody winning every time and then if you had items that were pretty hard to pick up you might turn that claw all the way up to make it as strong as possible so that people have a better chance of winning because if you filled it full of stuffed animals and then you say let's say we go push this to the movie theater well if nobody ever wins and it's always full and everybody that's ever played it never won the word kind of gets around and people say oh I don't play that you can't win but if they set it just right where you win every once in a while then people would keep playing if you set it where people win every time you wouldn't make any money you know they put a quarter in and they win a stuffed animal every time you go out of business doing that so they had to set it where you win every once in a while to keep you coming back but you don't win so much that they're losing a bunch of money on the stuffed animals in most locations on the cranes as opposed to like the arcade games on arcade games in most locations they would just do a straight split 50-50 the location would get half the money and the operator would get half the money on a crane what they would usually do is they would take some percentage of money off the top so let's say the crane made $10 or let's say it made $100 just make it nice and even let's say the crane made $100 you might take 30% off the top $30 to pay for the stuffed animals that you had to put back in to fill it back up and then the location and the operator would split the other $70 5050 so on the cranes in any of the redemption games like if you have a bubblegum machine that was kind of the same to the way the contract usually worked was that the operator would take a little bit off the top to pay for the merchandise that he was having to put back in the machine since it was kind of an expendable thing and this is the one with the little credit window and the timer this was a like I said a smart crane and I think this was their fifth generation PCB board but they had a bunch of different ones it's pretty much they were all about the same but my favorite part about these is this cool infinity light look at that so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take you back to 1990 by just turning off the lights and showing you how it looks with the lights off turn off the lights here remember that you're like in a movie theater and it's like lighting up the carpet around it and bubble bubble blah and look at that fantastic you really had a cool attract mode it made you want to go over and put a quarter in it so there you go a little a nice little clean sweep crane now by the time you see this video we may have already sold the clean sweep cream but maybe we'll have another one in or maybe we'll have some arcade games that you're interested in you can see everything that we've got for sale on our website we're at Lyon's arcade comm and if you want if you're here local to us you can come by and visit we're in downtown Rock Hill South Carolina which is about 15 minutes south of Charlotte North Carolina and that were just over the border and we've got a shop here with just dozens of games for sale at all times so you can come by and see what we've got in there if you're not local and you're not looking to buy freakin cream if you're not looking to buy a crane and you're not local just subscribe to us here on YouTube we will film videos of everything every time we get something interesting in like this we'll film a little video of it just remind everybody how these things once were because that's what we do we get them back how they once were so we'll see you on the next video