It looks like a slot-machine. It plays like a slot....

[Taro Toporific]

[IkemenTommy]

Pachinko/slot machines are the euphemism for gambling in Japan. People who go there regularly are a bunch of zombies who blow away all of their hard-earnings. Sure they may win some, but they may end up losing away their entire life.

[Gaijin Biker]

The article is misleading.

The law regulating pachislot machines was changed in July 2004. Machines approved before the change do not meet the new standards on maximum payout ratios, which were lowered to reduce the lure of big potential winnings.

Any machine approved before the new law can still be used until, at the latest, July 2007. That is where the "three years" figure comes from. But pachislot makers are making new machines that comply with the new law, so there will be no suddent dissapearance of pachislo machines from Japan in three years.

And the word "pachisuro" is a Japanese abbreviation of PACHInko SLOt.

[Taro Toporific]

Machines approved before the change do not meet the new standards on maximum payout ratios....

So that means, as long as you're a loser without hope, Pachislo is ok, hee, hee.

Losers without hope = Japanese legislative metaphor?

[cliffy]

Machines approved before the change do not meet the new standards on maximum payout ratios....

So that means, as long as you're a loser without hope, Pachislo is ok, hee, hee.

Losers without hope = Japanese legislative metaphor?

As I have said before, You cannot win against a gambling machine in the long run. I have heard ALL the stratagies and know how to set the machines up to play/pay from the operator side. They are for mugs, a bit of fun yes, but only losers play long term trying to win you have no hope .

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese baby dies in car as mother plays slot games
AFP, August 19, 2005
TOKYO -- A six-month-old baby died in Japan after her mother left her in a car in the summer heat to play slot games and did not even return during a major... more ...

[dimwit]

Japanese baby dies in car as mother plays slot games
AFP, August 19, 2005
TOKYO -- A six-month-old baby died in Japan after her mother left her in a car in the summer heat to play slot games and did not even return during a major... more ...

Hey maybe she was gambling to see how long the kid would survive in 50 degree heat.

[IkemenTommy]

Japanese baby dies in car as mother plays slot games
AFP, August 19, 2005
TOKYO -- A six-month-old baby died in Japan after her mother left her in a car in the summer heat to play slot games and did not even return during a major... more ...

This always happens every time around this time of the year and it always occur at some bum fucked do-inaka where pachinkos are plentiful.
This'll learn 'em.

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: Museum rises from passion for pachinko
Tetsuya Makino, 40, has devoted most of his life to a game that has fascinated him since he was 7 years old: pachinko. Makino first started playing with the machines at a department store in Tokyo. Now he manages a pachinko museum that boasts 148 machines, many of them admired as rare and historic mementos of the game's industry. "I am really grateful for my encounter with pachinko. I wanted to say thank you to pachinko and wanted to return something" to the game, Makino said in a recent interview with The Japan Times...The Pachinko Hakubutsukan (Pachinko Museum) is on the third floor of a building situated in the middle of Tokyo's Higashi-Ueno district near JR Ueno Station...more...