Lobster Crane Game


              The crane game is pretty much impossible to win. Even when the machine is full of plushy spongebobs the claw never seems to pick anything up. Now imagine if the spongebob doll was alive, slippery, desperately trying to escape. This video makes me sad. I imagine a hungry Japanese businessman who just cannot catch dinner in the arcade. The only good thing about this game is that it looks like the claw actually works. American crane games have claws that just half heartedly clamp around a doll and really can't pick anything up. How can arcade owners sleep at night knowing that they steal children's money with rigged machines. All the kids that wasted their allowances on crane games should come together and form a class action law suit against the arcade owners. Chuck E. Cheeses owes me quite a few quarters.

14 comments:

  1. no food for you today children

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  2. they should have one for whales

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  3. Poor things!
    lol at the whales comment. XD

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  4. they sould have one for oil spills

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  5. If Chuck E. Cheese moved to Japan, they'd go bankrupt, because nobody'd want to play there.

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  6. I know for a fact these are in bars here in the US... I saw one last year in Chicagoland...

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  7. They had a few here in New Zealand but it didn't take long before someone noticed and they got shut down.

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  8. I know they have one of these in a hotel bar thing in columbus.

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  9. Barnacles Sports Bar in Brandon, Florida has one of these.

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  10. there is one here in hawaii and i have seen someone win before

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  11. We had something like this for years at the mexican restaurant i work at. The new owners decided to get rid of it a couple of years ago. I was glad because it was for "charity", but the people came around maybe once a month to feed and clean it. The rest of the time, the lobsters ate each other. It was rather disturbing.

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  12. I saw one of these at Uminonakamichi in Fukuoka. Didn't have go, thought it was too cruel. When I lived in Japan, I didn't go a day without seeing something equally as odd.

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  13. I saw one of these machines in a restaurant in delaware.

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  14. There is one of these in somewhere in new hampshire, I went there when I was 10, so I dont really remember the place, but it was one of those bikers restaurant, with topless women and stuff (yeah I really was 10yrs old), and the lobsters had their claw held by a elastic rubber.

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