Arcade game gives players a break, literally

By Shay • Aug 23rd, 2007 • Category: Japan, More, humor, news     

“Udedamashii” is a Japanese arcade game that will break your arm for only 100 yen. Wow, what a sweet deal!

An arm wrestling arcade machine broke a man’s arm as he played it. The man, a 25 year-old Korean is not alone since the machine also fractured the arms of a Japanese guy and a Frenchman.

Man, poor guys. They were probably just showin’ off to their girlfriends or ‘the guys’.

The AFP article about the incidents said:

Atlus, a Tokyo-based arcade game maker, said it will remove the 155 machines of the game — called “Udedamashii,” which means Arms Spirits — which were put into service just a month ago.

Atlus attributes the injuries to not following instructions and/or being too excited. That’s understandable how someone, especially a foreigner wouldn’t bother reading the guidelines, but who wants to play an game where not reading directions is that costly? Ouch!

Machine breaks man in Japanese game

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5 Responses »

  1. Jamaipanese on August 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 pm:

    *filed under “only in Japan”…lol*

  2. Shay on August 23rd, 2007 at 10:53 pm:

    haha indeed :P

  3. Marko on August 28th, 2007 at 7:27 pm:

    Ouch for sure. I’ll stay away from this if I ever see it in Japan =P

  4. michaelpanda on September 1st, 2007 at 5:38 pm:

    dude, i’ve played this game before - i don’t understand how it could break someone’s arm! why didn’t he just let go of it when it started to hurt? LOL

    how’s life, shay?

  5. Shay on September 2nd, 2007 at 1:02 am:

    That makes it even funnier :P It’s good to have a “Udedamashii” player in the house ;) Thanks Michael.

    Life is pretty good. I’ve been so busy since college started back up :S geez lol

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