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While pachinko is huge in Japan, pinball is also very popular. Source: My Uncle worked for Williams pinball, and Japan is where they made most of their money.
by spaceisballer 11y ago
While pachinko is huge in Japan, pinball is also very popular. Source: My Uncle worked for Williams pinball, and Japan is where they made most of their money.
- gr3yh47 11y agoWould love to see a non-anecdotal source on this, as my understanding is that pinball sales in the US absolutley dwarfs totals for the rest of the world. Not saying Williams didn't do lots of other sales in Japan, but pinball-as-in-two-ish-flippers pinball sales should be highest in the US.
- gr3yh47 11y agosource to my point: >Yuske believes that Japan’s love of video games is part of the reason why pinball has had trouble taking hold—why the game is more of a foreign curiosity for most than a cultural mainstay. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-silver-ball-planet-inside-a-japanese-pinball-arcade http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-silver-ball-planet-insi...
- XzetaU8 11y agoIt was huge in the past but nowadays shows signs of a dying industry. http://thisishansu.com/language/en/pachinko-gambling-business-decline/ http://thisishansu.com/language/en/pachinko-gambling-busines...