After Causing Injuries, Japanese Arm-Wrestling Game Is Recalled
For professional arm wrestlers, broken arms are a risk of the trade. When you get two big guys pushing like crazy in the opposite direction, injuries are bound to happen from time to time. Now, when you're playing an arm-wrestling game in an arcade in Japan, you probably wouldn't expect to be subject to the same risks. But serious pain is exactly what came out of a Japanese arcade, where three Japanese gamers' arms were broken while playing a game called 'Arm Spirit' by Atlus. As you can see from the picture, the arm-wrestling game involves a robotic plastic arm that apparently went all Popeye on the trio.Details are sparse at this point, except that Atlus has recalled all 150 arcade cabinets of the game to prevent any further injury. All we can say is we hope this doesn't become a trend, lest some of the other rather more, uh, creative games in Japan start getting recalled as well.
From AOL News (AP)
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentstimoty westAug 26th 2007 8:33PM
i'm 40 yrs old,these games have been around since i was a kid.i loved them then and i love them now!!! what they need to recall are the dress wearing whimps !!(ha-ha)
AlyAug 26th 2007 8:35PM
Wow... i knew that game was dirty becuase you have to put your hand where so many people have but i didn't think it was dangerous!!!
KenJAug 26th 2007 9:32PM
Haha... blame the game.. as a "little guy" I know better then to take on a game dedicated to arm wrestling. Of course... who would really want to wrestle a machine?
bulldozerAug 26th 2007 9:41PM
We had a arm wrestling maching just like this in Tucson in the late 70s-early 80s with several strength settings...as far as I know, it never broke any arms...guess my generation just had more brains than the current college nightclub crowd.....for that matter, I broke IT!
Bob CurryAug 26th 2007 11:37PM
There used to be an armwrestling machine on the boardwalk at OCEAN CITY, MD. I would usually seek it out, and wait untill a crowd gathered, and go up and set it for maximum, and BEAT it! (I have armwrestled in professional competition) I LIKE these machines! At 60 years old, I STILL do a good job armwrestling!--Bob
kevinAug 26th 2007 10:06PM
If you cannot find a single person to arm wrestle with, you deserve to have your arm broken by a machine.
seanAug 26th 2007 10:11PM
of course it happens in japan (there all too skinny to be arm wrestling) ooo! ouch!
LaymaanAug 26th 2007 10:44PM
Come On.....
No Fair! I wanna play! I'll take that mechanical arm any day!
chzyriderAug 26th 2007 11:05PM
I remember these as a kid. It worked on resistance and it didn't try to pin you. They were fun to see who got the highest score with your friends and nobody got hurt. Maybe this one did try to pin the player, and that's how the people got injured. If that was the case, then I can understand the recall.
lynnAug 26th 2007 11:17PM
I am 39 and i would not play this game and i am no wimp
lynnAug 26th 2007 11:18PM
i am 39 and i would not play this game and i am no wimp
lynnAug 26th 2007 11:20PM
i am 39 and i would not play this game and i am no whimp
Drowning Blue SkyAug 26th 2007 11:27PM
hahahahahahaha, that's all I got to say about that.
RandallAug 27th 2007 3:10AM
oh come on whats the big deal? he was probably weak to begin with and shouldnt have been doing it in the 1st place
paulAug 27th 2007 12:19PM
thank goodness its only men and not women wretling a mechanical arm,lets keep it just for men;look how women destroyed mud wrestling