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Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms

Posted by samzenpus on from the step-right-up-and-lose-a-limb dept.

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.""

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  1. Beating it by gujo-odori · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  2. lol by wizardforce · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
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    1. Re:lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      Sounds like Saturday night at my place.

  3. how is this funny? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:how is this funny? by flyingfsck · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:how is this funny? by timmarhy · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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  4. Thuuurs ur problem! by russ1337 · · Score: 4, Funny

    >>> 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...

    1. Re:Thuuurs ur problem! by Spudtrooper · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. Re:Thuuurs ur problem! by sqrt(2) · · Score: 5, Funny

      Which is any amount.

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  5. Prizes for winning by Veramocor · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Recall the players by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  7. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by tukkayoot · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  8. Finally by timeOday · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  9. Re:Ob. Colbert by rumblin'rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  10. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by gallwapa · · Score: 5, Funny

    So easy, even a caveman could do it!

  11. Re:theory and practice by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  12. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by edflyerssn007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  13. sigh by friedman101 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  14. Would you like some salt with that wound? by bakura121 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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!
  15. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm an insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!

  16. Re:Are you out of your mind? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  17. What was that, Han? by confusedneutrino · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

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  18. Don't mind me, I'm just trying for +2, Funny. by SPQR_Julian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Life is not a Joss Whedon TV show.

    Gorrammit, it should be!

    1. Re:Don't mind me, I'm just trying for +2, Funny. by ben0207 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  19. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by QuickFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just Fucking Use Real Measurements How could he? He's an American you insensitive clod!
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  20. Re:Are you out of your mind? by jemecki · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  21. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by wallyhall · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  22. Re:even women? by Nazlfrag · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  23. Re:Are you out of your mind? by Nazlfrag · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  24. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by rjshields · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's wrong with Self-Addressed Envelopes?

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  25. Re:Are you out of your mind? by nogginthenog · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!!