Life Re: Dept. of Prosthetic Breakthroughs (Or, Blame the Victim)
posted by on August 21 at 15:30 PM
The mechanical arm can also be evil.
Meet “Arm Spirit”:
A Japanese arm wrestling game is being withdrawn from arcades across the country after three players broke their arms, company officials said.
“We think that maybe some players get over-excited and twist their arms in an unnatural way,” a spokesman said.
Arm Spirit gamers advance through 10 levels, pitting their strength against a French maid, a drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua dog before reaching the final challenge - a professional wrestler.
Sadly:
It is not available outside Japan.
I've totally seen this game before at one of those 21+ gameworks type places with a bar open to all patrons.
It's still better than Boonga Boonga.
Or maybe it was more like this one
There used to be something very like this in the Fun Forest in Seattle Center. It was still there -- in the new game hut thing -- as recently as three years ago.
The game title is in Japanese. Are we sure it doesn't say "FISTING FURY: Can your ass take it?"
This is taking us one step closer to some kind of coin-operated Fighting Robot Challenge, which I think we can all agree is a completely appropriate and inevitable application of robot technology.
They have a ">classic arm wrestling machine at the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco.
I can see how you could break your arm trying to beat it because it's just a hydraulic arm. It's going to win.
They have a classic arm wrestling machine at the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco.
I can see how you could break your arm trying to beat it because it's just a hydraulic arm. It's going to win.
As a teen in Ohio, I watched some tuff guy try to impress his friends with a hard punch to the mechanical punching bag on an arcade game. They were so impressed, they drove him and his broken hand to the hospital.
I was always heard that arm wrestling is really really bad for you. Bad for your joints and tendons, and I can imagine it's such a lovely move for your rotator cuff. I mean it's a fun idea in theory, hell the meathead in me wants to give it a try, but ... not it's not safe at all!
Just stick to the mechanical bull.
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