Pachinko

[loaf of bread 0]

Any packinko players on here?

 

I don't get it but obviously a heck of a lot of people do.

How much do those guys lose/win?

[foreversnow 5]

Pachinko Blows me away. Each year we venture in vowing that that will be the year we give it a go. After 4 years we are still trying to work it out and man up and give it a go

[muikabochi 208]

Don't get too excited snowhuntress!

[snowdude 44]

Played it once when I first came to Japan, because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I couldn't see what the attraction of it was, just a waste of time and money is how I saw it.

Amazing though how some people can waste hours a day in these places!

[muikabochi 208]

Seems to be an "escape from family" thing for some people.

I can think of better things to do but...

[gerard 6]

Snow Japan beats Pachinko for one.

[bobby12 0]

hey no links on here please! ;-)

[SnowJapan 178]

Yes, that's very naughty.

Well pointed out bobby12!

[thursday 1]

they're good places for ball bearing factories to off load their surplus.

[grungy-gonads 54]

Haven't poked me head into one of those places in years.

Sad dudes generally if you ask me.

[gerard 6]

Some of my friends do it. Regular dudes with hobbies and stuff, like the base player for my old band. Cool guy. I could never understand the Pachinko habit.

[Go Native 70]

What amazes me is that there appears to be little if any recognition that pachinko, like slot machines in the west, are bad for communities. I know they don't really consider it gambling but of course that's exactly what it is and it sucks huge amounts of money out of what are often struggling towns. Up here in Hokkaido often the only new and biggest building in town are these monlithic pachinko parlours. Everything else appears to near falling down but there stands this bright and shiny building where the locals go to throw away their money instead of putting back into the town and community and supporting local businesses. They are massive cash cows that just suck the lifeblood out whole towns in my opinion. But few if any Japanese I've ever spoken to seem to appreciate the harm these dens of iniquity casue.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

don't see the fun. A mate of mines loves it, went him with him once to see what it was all about, he said that "...once I play it I'll be hooked, it's that much fun".......well that was 2 years ago and I haven't stepped back inside one. Just don't see what is fun about losing all your money (of which I do well enough exchanging mines for beer) watching ball bearings spin round a board.

[Go Native 70]

I must admit I love gambling and we have regular poker nights here in Niseko of which I've won quite a few recently (up about Y30,000 over the last month!). Pachinko would definitely have to be up there as one of the most boring ways to lose money I can possibly think of.

[BagOfCrisps 24]

Originally Posted By: snowhuntress

Pachinko Blows me away. Each year we venture in vowing that that will be the year we give it a go. After 4 years we are still trying to work it out and man up and give it a go

Best to keep it as a to-do and imagine it being interesting, sh.
(It wasn't).

[snowboarding-sally 0]

Totally don't understand it and it's appeal!

Noisy, smokey, losing money... ugg, can't think of many things worse to do in spare time.