Game center fun: live hamsters in UFO catcher game

[Taro Toporific]

Shop uses hamsters, turtles in crane game
(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, July 21, 2004)
A Tokyo game center has been forced to stop giving out hamsters and small turtles as prizes after the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's animal protection center lodged a complaint, it has been learned.....
"It's against the spirit of animal protection," a Tokyo official said. "It's not acceptable that they keep hamsters in cases kept in a game box."

[Caustic Saint]

The hamsters were in cases? Friggin' sissy game, that is.

There was one in Busan near a friend of mine's place that had them running around loose in the machine. The only concession made to hamster safety was that they'd taped plastic spoons onto the end of the claw points.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

I just dipped down and filmed the whole thing.

Nasty HERE

[American Oyaji]

ODG, that was plain SICK!

[khusam]

I watched the whole thing twice.

:P

[Mulboyne]

Hamsters are out of my experience but crustaceans are still very available in game centres in Shinjuku. There is a bar in Kabukicho that give free shots all if a you bring in a live one for cooking.