If there is one thing that I love in the amusement device industry, it’s the crane game. If a person is skilled enough, they could bring home Christmas (or Hanukkah, if that’s your thing) a few months early with stuffed animals, iPhones, and…a Wii!
Unfortunately, if the average person can hardly win that mini plush Jeff Gordon car at the local Wal-Mart, their chances of winning a Wii in one of these machines seems a bit slim. Besides, everybody knows that those machines are super-duper-dee-duper rigged. Word has it that some of the high-end machines have timers that determine the strength of each claw’s grab. Even then, that Wii is sure to fall from the crane’s ninja grip after a few centimeters…
Casino style screw jobs or not, I am itchin’ to try my luck with one of these games. One Greyhound to the Jersey Shore, please.
