# Penny arcade shocker at Disneyland **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 13, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339 "2005-03-13T16:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/81 "2015-12-19T17:02:41Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > That is same exact timeframe as the one I built. Mine was in a cylindrical cardboard shipping container about 2.5"x10" with two bands of aluminum foil. > > One of the popular electronic magazines had the project. I wonder which one. Page 78 in this PDF of [Popular Electronics, February 1966](http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/60s/66/Pop-1966-02.pdf) - “The Tickle Stick” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/82 "2015-12-19T19:09:21Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > [I’ve seen this](http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?letter=A&game_id=10550) creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky novelty game at Seaside Heights, New Jersey. It seems to be in the same style (I didn’t try it), and it apparently works according to **Bike Rider** ’s description. > > Eisner might be evil, but do you _really_ think he would actually electrocute parkgoers? Its checks your balance first. Then your credit rating. Then how many degrees of Kevin Bacon you are separated from an attorney. Then it does a complex calculation. Poor credit? Owe Disney a cool grand already and haven’t even finished out your vacation? Never even had an attorney and nobody in your family knows one? Kiss your heart goodbye. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/83 "2015-12-19T21:10:25Z")
> [@ChickenLegs](#): > > By the way, I really enjoy this thread. The shocker arcade game at Disney World, around 1977, is part of my personal collection of childhood memories. Lumpy had an experience with that shock machine. Check out his post somewhere above. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/84 "2015-12-21T08:51:21Z")
> [@stanger](#): > > Each time you closed the book and reopened it, you would be shocked, so it wasn’t simply charged by a car ignition capacitor. Well the aluminium foil on the cover may form capacitor… that may be how it gets away with simple design. The power may come from opening or close the cover ? perhaps a dynamo or gas lighter (piezo) inside ? But anyway, why not use a battery to charge a capacitor ? ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/86 "2016-03-01T01:35:10Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > I’m pretty sure there was a game like this in a James Bond movie. A View to a Kill? It had the two players opposing each other and using the handles as controllers to play a strategy game of some sort. Every time you suffered a loss in the game, it’d give you a shock. The game lasted until someone let go. I believe that game was called “Domination” and was from _Never Say Never Again_. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/87 "2016-03-01T02:21:16Z")
One of those horror stories in the Nazi concentration camps during the war, not sure anymore if it’s true. A man or woman is strapped to an electric chair and is given a shock if he/she refuses to follow a command. The command is simple: press the button near your hand. It will shock another person similarly strapped. You can see that other person but not the other way round. That person may be your spouse, sibling, some other relative, or your offspring. Siblings tend to shock each other but not spouses. Parents resisted from shocking their children until they died. What’s my point? At Disney you’re not strapped and no one’s ordering you. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/88 "2016-03-01T02:58:03Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > One of those horror stories in the Nazi concentration camps during the war, not sure anymore if it’s true. A man or woman is strapped to an electric chair and is given a shock if he/she refuses to follow a command. The command is simple: press the button near your hand. It will shock another person similarly strapped. You can see that other person but not the other way round. That person may be your spouse, sibling, some other relative, or your offspring. Siblings tend to shock each other but not spouses. Parents resisted from shocking their children until they died. > > What’s my point? At Disney you’re not strapped and no one’s ordering you. Never heard of the Nazi’s doing this. Sounds like a miss-remembered version of the [infamous Milgram Experiment…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/89 "2016-03-01T03:52:46Z")
Maybe that Yale guy got inspired, since it was done in 1961. And even Yaley’s wouldn’t try the version I described. In my story, you are ordered, on threat of death by electrocution, to shock the other person. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/90 "2016-03-01T15:48:22Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Maybe that Yale guy got inspired, since it was done in 1961. And even Yaley’s wouldn’t try the version I described. In my story, you are ordered, on threat of death by electrocution, to shock the other person. I’d have to see a citation that Nazis did this. IIRC the Milgram experiment was designed to see if people would ‘just follow orders’, which Nazis used as a defence. I don’t recall that he was inspired by Nazi electrocution ‘experiments’, nor do I think he would have been allowed to conduct his experiment if he was. But that might be a subject for another thread. I’d still like someone to construct an ‘Electricity Is Life’ machine for me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/91 "2016-03-01T22:17:03Z")
Did they feel the power of the Lord? Zap! /sarcasm ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339/92 "2016-06-09T02:04:15Z")
> [@Shockaholics](#): > > Did they feel the power of the Lord? Zap! /sarcasm **Moderator Note** **Shockaholics** , stop randomly bumping threads. This is closed. Colibri General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penny-arcade-shocker-at-disneyland/294339.md?page=4)