You can also download the Ogg Vorbis codec installer separately, though it is included in the download:
Pachinko a Go Go! is quite possibly the world''s first 3d pachinko video game simulation.
Pachinko a Go Go! uses 3d graphics and physics systems. Atrai-chan is beautifully vertex animated and lip synced. The music is seven tracks of the kind of Japanese europop you might expect to hear in a real Japanese pachinko parlor. Eye candy includes shaders and particle effects. Taking all this into consideration, you will need a fairly good system for Pachinko a Go Go! to run smoothly.
One of our beta testers confirmed that Pachinko a Go Go! did run on a PIII, 800Mhz system, However we recommend:
PIV 1.8 Ghz +VGA Card with 64MB+Aftermarket sound card: not onboard chipDX9 drivers required
- Pachinko a Go Go! is a NonLinear production
2008/4/01 Pachinko a Go Go is no longer available for web distribution or sale.
2007/ 2/ 22 NEW!!! Version 1.3 Ultra Excitement!
SENSES EXCITE!
Play Pachinko a Go Go! The exciting Japanese slot game simulation.
Turn the knob to adjust the power of balls fired onto the table. Try to get the balls into the tulip to start slot games on the centre screen. Get more balls into the tulips to increase your chances. Hitting a lucky bucket will give you a reach game.
Getting three odd numbers in a row starts a "fever". Bucket loads of balls spew from the machine and can be changed for cash.
In this video game simulation you get all the excitement of a Japanese slot game plus the kind of visual effects and eye candy only a video game can provide.
Virtual pachinko parlor girl, Atari-chan, cheers you on. When you hit the slots she gets excited and dances. If she gets really excited, she might even fall out of her dress!
Even more excting than the real game, and way more fun than a fruit machine! Find out why Pachinko is Japan's favorite past-time. Download Pachinko a Go Go! right now!
2005/5
Let's Pachinko! -True Pachinko Stories for You!
Joe Cyr aka "Pachipro" talks about his time as a professional pachinko player in Japan
I had started playing pachinko when I was in the service around 1975. I never won more than 3 or 4 thousand yen. (Back then yen was 300/$ so that was around $10-$13. I probably lost more than I won. I didn’t know at the time that you could cash your balls into yen so I opted for the prizes or food. It was quite boring and a little fun at the same time, but time flew quickly. It was a good way to pass a Saturday afternoon before hitting the bars at night.
I became an avid player in my college days when I discovered that you could get cash. I didn’t win a lot. Some days I would lose 3 or 5,000 yen and on others I would profit 6 or 7,000 yen for a 2 or 3,000 yen investment. I didn’t play maybe 2-3 times/week. By 1980 all machines had been converted to automatic and you could win a little more than with the manual machines.
If anyone knows anything about Pachinko it is this: YOU ALWAYS WIN ON THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF A PARLOR INSTALLING NEW MACHINES. The machines are loose and 90% of the people win. After a couple of days things return to normal. About 2-3 times per year they will install new machines. Not all the machines are replaced. Maybe 20-50 or more, but it’s enough to fill the place as all machines are loose.
This story goes back to January1981 when a new type of pachinko machine was first introduced called the “Fever” and “Bravo” type...
2005/5
Interview with a Pachinko Parlor Owner
Every evening in a small farming town somewhere in Western Japan, Mr.Tanaka goes to a small retaurant near the station for sashimi and rice wine.
Across the road, on the corner of the main street and the entrance to a ramshack shopping mall, where now most of the shopfronts are screened by roll-down steel doors, is his pachinko parlor. Tonight there are no gaudy lights or high energy music mixed with the sound of dozens of amusement machines competing with one another for attention. Mr. Tanakas Shop has been closed for two weeks, the victim of new laws to give the police greater power over industries for over eighteens'. Here I caught up with him to get ome inside information on the Japanese pachinko industry.
Grumbling as he crushed a pickled plum in his rice wine with his chopsticks, he explained that under new laws, parlors cannot use machines that are over three years old. Mr.Tanaka's parlor has 165 old machines, some of which date back to the 1960's. Also, recently Japan has changed its bank notes, requiring updating all money changing machines. The cost of bringing his parlor up to these requirements would be millions of yen.
Firstly, I wanted to know how much it was possible to win at Pachinko. I've had a few pachinko wins myself that ranged between 5000 and 25000 yen (about US$50-250). Mr.Tanaka announced you could win 800,000 yen (@US$7,500) in a day! This raised some objections from other patrons of the restaurant who considered it only possible to win 150,000 in a day by playing honestly...
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A funny pachinko song by The Pogues. Includes a sample soundtrack. Link