Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms

Lucas123 writes "After three players broke their arms while wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages. Said game maker Atlus' spokeswoman: "The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.""

Comments

Beating it

[gujo-odori]

"Even women should be able to beat it"

I dunno, I think an artificial arm would work better for helping guys to beat it...

Besides, having a woman beat it would just be so out of place for most /.ers.

lol

[wizardforce]

Arm Spirit, which is only distributed in Japan, lets gamers advance through 10 levels battling, among other opponents, a French maid, a drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler.

that would suck, get your arm snapped by a Chihuahua... what happens in Japan stays in Japan.

Re:lol

[Anonymous Coward]

a French maid, a drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua

Sounds like Saturday night at my place.

Re:lol

[Bryan Ischo]

I did a brief bit of consulting for a company developing cell phone apps. They had ties to some Korean cell phone manufacturers. Somehow they had gotten a hold of some Korean arcade systems as a trial to see if they would want to market them in the USA. One was called something like "Butt Smacker" and it was an upright arcade console with a screen and a recreation of a person's butt (made out of foam and plastic) protruding just below the screen. There was a paddle attached to the side of the cabinet.

I never saw the machine turned on but I can only imagine what the "game" was ...

how is this funny?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't understand why this is categorized as humor when it deals with someone's pain and anguish.

Also the company claims that the arm isn't that strong. Yet the physics behind the arm and the leverage is sure to make engaging the machine in a friendly game of arm wrestling into something which is needlessly dangerous.

Re:how is this funny?

[flyingfsck]

Well, it is only fun till someone gets hurt and then it is hilarious...

Re:how is this funny?

[timmarhy]

What kind soft pussy are you? pain and anguish? these are drunken idiots paying an obviously dangerous game (which the japs LOVE btw), probably pumping up the strength level to try impress mates/girls and then getting totally owned - i couldn't think of anything funnier.

Thuuurs ur problem!

[russ1337]

>>> wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages

I think you probably would get hurt tangling with an arcade machine that has 150 mechanized appendages...

Re:Thuuurs ur problem!

[Spudtrooper]

Guess they'll have to recall that tentacle rape simulator too...

Re:Thuuurs ur problem!

[sqrt(2)]

Which is any amount.

Prizes for winning

[Veramocor]

The Japanese sure know how to build a video game. This one came with a prize feature depending on how far you advanced. They had some crazy prizes for winning on the hardest level. The one that is most over the top was winning you own Mack truck.

Recall the players

[EmbeddedJanitor]

It's really the players that are defective. The game is fine.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[tukkayoot]

Well said. You expressed your point so clearly, even a woman could understand it!

Finally

[timeOday]

An arcade game that's *definitely* harmful to children. No philosophical and ethical debate necessary!

Re:Ob. Colbert

[rumblin'rabbit]

/. reader's wrists are already strong enough, thank you very much.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[gallwapa]

So easy, even a caveman could do it!

Re:theory and practice

[gad_zuki!]

It would also help if they didnt plug a 110 plug into a 220 socket.

In Soviet Russia...

[fearboy]

In Soviet Russia, game breaks YOU!

Now if the damn Russians would just invent an arm-breaking machine, the joke would work...

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[edflyerssn007]

I'm a caveman, you insensitive clod!

Really though, I get unending jokes because I'm a big guy with a beard and long hair, so....everyone's like, when did you start working for geico. Jerks.

-Ed

Perverted Justice Called...

[shakestheclown]

Personally, I'm glad the kid didn't beat any of the lubed older guys!

sigh

[friedman101]

And yet no one will recall the real doll for breaking hearts *sob*

Would you like some salt with that wound?

[bakura121]

"The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it."
Wow... a guy gets his arm broken by an arm wrestling machine and a spokesman says "even women should be able to beat it." Talk about kicking a man when he's down. Ouch!

Call Hans and Franz

[kaufmanmoore]

Japan has to many girly men. They need to be pumped up.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm an insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[Hal_Porter]

Are you seriously implying that in general men are not stronger than women? Dude you need to get out more. Anyone who has a problem with this IS IGNORING REALITY.

What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses. In fact the only people who came close to defeating her were women.

Or Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica - she beat the snot out some dude in the boxing episode. Or that chick in Serenity who's like 50kgs and a deadly weapon. Or Buffy the vampire slayer, another petite girl who kicks ass. Or any of the other heroines in future Joss Whedon stories.

I think you're the one who's ignoring reality.

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[andreyw]

If by reality you mean "cheezy TV shows", then yes.

What was that, Han?

[confusedneutrino]

"Droids don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose..."

Sure there's not a wookie hiding in there somewhere?

Don't mind me, I'm just trying for +2, Funny.

[SPQR_Julian]

Life is not a Joss Whedon TV show.

Gorrammit, it should be!

Re:Don't mind me, I'm just trying for +2, Funny.

[ben0207]

As /. posts go, it's not the funnest. ...I'll be in my bunk.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because London has *no sunlight*. It's only the glare from all the CCTV camera lighting that gives even the faintest UV to its citizens.

Re:even women?

[scottrocket]

I agree - I've simply met bodybuilding/athletic women who are inordinately strong (probably due to steroid use); likewise, most guys can't bench press 400#'s (& some of these women do - geh I feel threatened!).

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[QuickFox]

Just Fucking Use Real Measurements How could he? He's an American you insensitive clod!

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[jemecki]

HELLO?? Chuck Norris is a man and he could easily defeat Xena and Buffy on steroids simultaneously. Unfortunately, the single Chuck Norris datapoint catapults the average strength of men far off the charts, making a male-female strength comparison very tricky indeed...

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[wallyhall]

I just like the tagging ambiguity ... "evenwomencanbeatit" ... I knew women had them, but I didn't know they were them.

Re:even women?

[Nazlfrag]

Yet, women have the uncanny ability to totally screw a guy over without straining a muscle or leaving a mark.

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[Nazlfrag]

He wouldn't hit his son's future mother, and they would all fall pregnant just looking at Chuck. Your argument fails.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[rjshields]

What's wrong with Self-Addressed Envelopes?

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[nogginthenog]

What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses.

But now we know the truth: She's a fracking Cylon!!