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After Causing Injuries, Japanese Arm-Wrestling Game Is Recalled

by Tim Stevens on August 22, 2007 at 01:09 PM

Japanese Arm Wrestling Game RecalledFor 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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Tags: Arcade, Killer Gadgets, Killer Games, KillerGadgets, KillerGames, Weird

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