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Hooked on the claw: How crane games conquered Japan's arcades
As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...
KITAHIROSHIMA, Hokkaido -- Gigantic claw crane game machines are attracting customers to arcades across the country, including in this northern Japan city. Many adults and children alike are hooked on ...
The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...
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