A (then) recently opened Pachinko Parlor : 無料・フリー素材/写真
A (then) recently opened Pachinko Parlor / Jorge Lascar
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Gambling is illegal in Japan, but there are ways around it! One of them is by playing in the Pachinko machines (the establishment is called Pachinko Parlor). BASICS [From Wikipedia.org]: The player purchases a large number of small steel balls which are inserted, in bulk, into the machine. Originally, machines had a spring-loaded lever for shooting the balls individually, but modern machines use a round "throttle" that merely controls how quickly an electrically fired plunger shoots the balls onto the playfield. The balls then drop through an array of pins, and usually simply fall through to the bottom, but occasionally fall into certain gates which make the machine pay out more balls. Most current machines include a slot machine, and the big winnings are ultimately paid not from the balls falling into gates, but from the slot machine matches that follow. In many modern machines the balls have nothing to do with determining winnings, which are based strictly on electronic random number generators. The winnings are in the form of more balls, which the player may either use to keep playing, or exchange for tokens or prizes such as pens or cigarette lighters. Under Japanese law, cash cannot be paid out, but there is virtually always a small exchange centre located nearby (or sometimes in a separate room from the game parlor itself) where players can conveniently exchange tokens for cash. Such pseudo-cash gambling is theoretically illegal but from the sheer number of pachinko parlors in Japan it is clear that the activity is at least tacitly tolerated by the authorities. |
| 撮影日 | 2007-09-02 13:01:29 |
| 撮影者 | Jorge Lascar , Australia |
| 撮影地 | 東京, 東京都, 日本 地図 |