Looking to bone up on your arcade crane game strategy? (You know the game I’m talking about — the one with the claw and the plush toys crammed all up inside it.) Well, we’ve got some sad news. It ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. But the real stroke of genius "was ...

Crane games – Japan loves them, needs them, and sometimes breaks them. And on January 7, 2021, the Sega Shinjuku Kabukicho arcade in donwtown Tokyo officially received a certificate saying they broke ...

For 16-year-old Kuan-ting Lin, teaming up with his father to beat a claw crane game seemed like a winning idea. During a trip to Japan a few months ago, he played the arcade game for the first time ...

While the American arcade has been in a slow decline for years now, the allure of being able to some cheap knock-off stuffed animal for a mere 50 cents is still a reason to seek out the odd arcade ...

A controllable claw is capturing the curiosity of casinos and their customers. The Go Go Claw gambling game looks and plays a lot like a crane machine found in an arcade or the entrance to a grocery ...

About 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, ...