Travel Videos 365 - BETA version 1.02

If you cross-bred pinball and a slot machine and add a dash of video gameage, then you'd have Pachinko, or sometimes reffered to as Pachislot. A hallmark of Japan's quirky mystique, the gameplay involves turning a knob. The interaction ends there. Then you watch as many small silver balls are hurled into the playing.... more

Scenes from the documentary movie Tokyo-Ga, by Wim Wenders (1985). Language: english Subtitles: spanish Those scenes show two visits to a pachinko parlor somewhere in Tokyo. First we see different people playing pachinko. Even a person that gets a price. Later at night, when the shop is closed, the owner modifies the.... more

I shot this in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo. Pachinko machines can be found in pachinko parlors which are all over Japan. Pachinko is a mixture between slot machine and pinball. One can recognize parlors easily because they are bright and colorful; inside a parlor it is very loud and smoky. The player is quite passive.... more

Tony and I are in a pachinko parlor. It looks to be an Evangelion Machine I'm playing at. Also seem to play a successful ball at the right time, too!

Karen walking through a pachinko parlor in Shinjuku. There are hundreds of these and they are all packed, 24/7!!! (more)

Playing pachinko with the Olympus Stylus 1030 SW at PMA 2008. Coverage at http://reviews.photographyreview.com/pma2008/

A wonderful video showing the excitement of a Panchinko game after the ball has dropped in the correct place!

pachinko in kyoto

Here's a little video about my Pachinko and Slot machine. I picked them up at a novelty store in Tokyo. If you want one, let me know. Maybe I can get one for you and ship it to you.

Ultra Bonous I was lucky to play on this machine when it went crazy after 2500 yen and won 39 times without returning to normal mode and then later went on to win another 15 times I totalled 94,000 yen for 6 hours playing