The latest Pachinko headlines....

[azlew]

From the great Lexis Nexis website (all the news from more than 4000 sources, including wire services, newspapers,TV transcripts and more)

http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/

Unfortunately they charge for the complete articles but the free summaries for these headlines are very interesting

Here are some of the latest headlines(do a search on their site for pachinko, pachislo etc):

Pachinko heads for the spotlight The pinball-like game and its variant are set for a boost as Japan prepares to legalise casinos, writes Michiyo Nakamoto
Financial Times (London, England)

Pachinko firm ordered to return 2.14 million yen to punter over 'worthless' tips
Mainichi Daily News - 2/21/2007

Pachinko Wii Game With Online Hitting Japan Soon
Kotaku - 3/8/2007

Former employee busted for stealing 27 mil. yen from pachinko parlor
Mainichi Daily News - 2/10/2007

Goldman Sachs gamble Bank bets Y26bn on Japanese pinball
Financial Times (London, England)

Japan's Sega Sammy April-Dec net profit down 22.2 pct on weak slot machine sales
AFX - Asia - 2/7/2007

Sega Sammy, Sammy and Taiyo Elec Forge Business and Capital Alliance
Japan Corporate News Network - 3/12/2007

[revmondo]

would love to see more than just the headlines, but sounds pretty cool. if they legalize perhaps even more cool machines will be headed our way as the casinos try to keep up with each other.

[drcrippen324]

im intrested in the wii pachinko game

[dattia]

Wii Pachinko...count me in

[revmondo]

looks like i gotta get a Wii, um, for the kids, right?
(dont tell my wife about the pachinko part)

[logicprobe]

Here's some links about the Wii pachinko games.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/pachink...oon-242486.php

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/200...e-for-the-wii/

[Delgrieve]

Yay! Wii Pachinko, using the Miis no less! Anyone know the differences in the Japanese and US Wiis? Compatible?

[drcrippen324]

as far as i herd the games were gonna be regon free just the dvds have the normal tag

[dhcloud]

Sadly.. the only region free system is the PS3. There are some XBox360 games that are not region locked. So far all Wii games are locked to region. So unless they bring the game to your region, you will have to get the JP system to play the game.