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New Godzilla CM

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:53 am
by Jim Ballard

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:23 am
by lhb412

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:41 am
by metal_bryan

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:55 am
by Moonlight SY-3
It's for Pachinko.
Edit: We can't write that? Pa-chin-ko? You know, the vaguely pinball-like game that's so popular over here.
Ah, OK. I get it. Funny.

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:31 am
by Jim Ballard
Thanks. I have the TV on behind me while I'm on the computer, so I only ever know it's own at the last minute when I hear a Godzilla roar. I've seen CMs for an ULTRA SEVEN Pa-chin-ko too, I think.
And while we're on the subject, am I the only person that doesn't "get" Pa-chin-ko? I can't understand it's popularity.

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:59 am
by The Shadow
I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel awhile back [something like Tokyo uncovered] and they had a short segment on pa-chin-ko. If I remember correctly gambling is illegal in Japan [or at least in Tokyo] but some pa-chin-ko parlors covertly double as gambling spots by means of some loophole.
Instead of claiming the more typical prizes they showed a man get some small boxes [with what looked like a small coin or metallic seal on them] and then leave the parlor and head to a small window just around the corner where he exchanged them for cash.

Posted:
Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:03 pm
by canofhumdingers
that's it exactly. it's "undercover" slot machines.

Posted:
Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:43 pm
by Moonlight SY-3

Posted:
Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:41 pm
by kidnicky

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Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:41 pm
by canofhumdingers
well, the show on discovery showed the boxes, & they were cheap gold coins. You actually won the ball bearings out of the pachinko machine (much in the way you win coins from a slot machine), brought the bucket of ball bearings to a counting machine & dumped them in. The counting machine printed a ticket with the number of balls you won on it. you took this ticket to the prize counter & traded it for the cheap gold coins in a small box, then you took the boxed gold coins around the corner to a shady walk up window in an alley where they gave you cash for the coins.