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    Default For 50 years, Japan's Pachinko was considered petty gambling

    For 50 years, Japan's Pachinko was considered petty gambling. Now promoters of this huge industry dream of taking over the world.

    By Yukihiro Hatano
    Pachinko's going to be on the cutting edge of multimedia. It's going to take a seat among Japan's key industries, and we're going to build a whole new society around it," Ko¯ji To¯nai tells me, point blank.
    Punctuated by the clipped rhythmic accent of the hearty city of Nagoya, To¯nai's gravelly voice crescendos: "A new urban village with a pachinko hall at its center. The whole community will look to the pachinko hall as a place of leisure and self-realization. There'd be room for housewives' groups to meet and pursue sundry interests and hobbies, say, or an old geezer will drop in knowing it's where the grannies hang out."
    He booms on: "Online links between the hall and the home, information flowing back and forth. You'll be able to shop or get medical advice without ever leaving your living room."
    I am not sure whether to be amazed or bewildered. Pachinko - that seedy form of gambling - at "the forefront of multimedia"? A "whole new society" built around the Japanese pinball parlor, whose banks of flashing, fluorescent booths and blaring Nintendo-like tunes commandeer every business-district corner? A "key industry" built from a garish game that outdoes Las Vegas in crassness?

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    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.06/pachinko.html
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    I think the link that was posted in November was better because it has the photos and it's all on one page.
    http://www.pachitalk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=97

    "Pachinko uber Alles" from Wired 4.06 (June, 1996) was a translation and adaptation of "Gindama disukuroja" by Yukihiro Hatano, from Wired Japan 1.09 (November, 1995). It was translated by Wayne Lammers and additional material was contributed by Wired US researcher Bob Parks.

    The article on the Coyners@Home in Seoul Korea website
    http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/pachinko.html

    Translator Wayne Lammers' Home Page
    http://homepage.mac.com/wlammers/Main/index.html

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