Claw machine

The other option is using the teddy bear, uh, emoji.

It's the Acid-Filled Claw Machine, requires smarts and bra, brawn.

So that's where the votes get to come in, and it's just for the people outside of the game in the Discord get to vote on that.

Great.

So while America was doing that, Japan was building something more sophisticated.

So Sega released the UFO Catcher in 1985, which is a, it's a cool machine.

I'll post a picture of it on the supplementals.

It's a sleek, pink, kind of like '80s futuristic looking machine with two arm claws, and the point of the two claws was to attract couples, like, on a date, because typically claw machines had been for the gentlemen, [laughs] and women were-

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So they're trying to get women in the arcades, and the name came from the aesthetic of it.

So the name of the machine is UFO Catcher.

They were trying to figure out how to, like, design this claw.

Oh, I had such a cool morning, though.

Um, I put my claw machine out, uh, talked about it last week and I've curated all this ridiculous stuff that I had so much fun putting together.

Um, but I'm a huge fan of the onion and have been for a million years.

Um, which that's normal.

I can't remember.

But when they started the InfoWars elf stuff, I adopted the InfoWars elf as the mascot of Lin's Pinball for a little bit.

changed my profile picture to the InfoWars Elf, made some hats, sent a bunch of hats up to the King of the Hill fundraiser, put a bunch of hats, InfoWars Elf hats, in my claw machine, put the gay frog in my claw machine right when I got it last week, and put some other InfoWars and onion stuff in the claw machine, posted it on Instagram, and one of the writers baby jay um hit me up he's like oh that's so cool what are you doing i was like i don't know i just i do silly stuff he's like well i used to work at chuck e cheese and i used to work on pinball machines and claw machines and stuff it was like my first job he's like it's so cool to see a project that i'm working on be a part of a claw machine uh asked me if i would send him a hat and then he was like hey do you want to be featured on office hours live and i said hell yeah um We were supposed to do it next week, a week from today.

Today's Thursday.

So, it is a Dave & Buster's, but it caters heavily to, like, Japanese things.

So, like, the claw machine is all the Japanese claw machines.

Oh, so it's a real claw machine then.

Yeah.

Yeah, and they have bowling, they have karaoke, they usually have food, bar, and they have arcade machines, and a lot of them are Japanese, so they have the DDR dancings, or the ones where you're playing the drums.

So I'm driving safe.

But I'm about to do claw machines.

I want to do Pokemon.

I want to do like, I don't care if it makes money.

I think there's one specific, isn't there? The UFO catcher is like a specific Sega that has like a two prong, I believe.

I'm no expert on claw cranes.

Well, we'll see, because I have this feeling that you are far more knowledgeable than most folks.

Okay, but should we kick off with the first game, Sega Rally? Yeah.

Claw crane machines, right?

Yeah.

And I think they have a long history, like even pre-electromechanical, just mechanical claw cranes that you would see in sort of penny arcades.

So, I guess another experience I used to have as a kid, other than the sort of electrical arcades, was used to go to a place in Cheddar, Cheddar Gorge, which is where the cheese comes from, Wayne, which is not far from Bristol.