loaf of bread 0 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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? Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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 Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Don't get too excited snowhuntress! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Seems to be an "escape from family" thing for some people. I can think of better things to do but... Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Snow Japan beats Pachinko for one. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 hey no links on here please! ;-) Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted May 11, 2010 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted May 11, 2010 Yes, that's very naughty. Well pointed out bobby12! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 they're good places for ball bearing factories to off load their surplus. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Haven't poked me head into one of those places in years. Sad dudes generally if you ask me. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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). Link to post Share on other sites
snowboarding-sally 0 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 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. Link to post Share on other sites
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