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From Destructoid:

You know those crane games they have inside movie theaters and sports bars in North America? The ones with the seemingly impossible-to-get Batman stuffed toys? They’re huge in Japanese arcades. Who knew?

Certainly not me, so it’s a good thing I had a chance to finish reading through Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan’s Game Centers during my “holiday break.” The first chapter details the strange culture of crane games, or “UFO Catchers” as they’re sometimes known as in Japan. It’s a world where skill, not luck, factors into whether you’ll make the catch, so much so that heated claw-machine competition exists. Seriously.

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