tsukaesugi
Holy shit, it's a ninja!,
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While looking through my cell phone photos for pictures for this thread, I found this:
This is an authentic SNK UFO Catcher ("UFO Catcher" is the generic Japanese name for the use-a-claw-to-try-and-catch-a-prize games you sometimes see in arcades).
This particular picture is a couple of years old now. I don't remember where I took it, but I'm guessing one of the bigger game centers in Shinjuku.
I *do* remember being surprised, because I didn't know that SNK made UFO Catchers.
A couple of more pictures from my cell phone...
SNK also made NeoPrint (photo-sticker) machines. Here's one of the last SNK NeoPrint machines that I've seen still in use. It's in Kamakura at the Enoshima line train station:
The actual photos from early photo-sticker machines like the NeoPrint were quite small. These days the photos are much larger, and you can add effects and digitally manipulate the images before you print them out.
That's why it's rare to see an older machine like this still active. It's not because they break down easily, or blank sticker-sheets are hard to get, it's because customers don't want to use them.
This particular machine makes specific photo-stickers with an Enoshima train line theme, which is why it's still around. I've seen two other "place specific" NeoPrint machines before: once in Okinawa, and once in Matsushima in Miyagi.
This is an authentic SNK UFO Catcher ("UFO Catcher" is the generic Japanese name for the use-a-claw-to-try-and-catch-a-prize games you sometimes see in arcades).
This particular picture is a couple of years old now. I don't remember where I took it, but I'm guessing one of the bigger game centers in Shinjuku.
I *do* remember being surprised, because I didn't know that SNK made UFO Catchers.
A couple of more pictures from my cell phone...
SNK also made NeoPrint (photo-sticker) machines. Here's one of the last SNK NeoPrint machines that I've seen still in use. It's in Kamakura at the Enoshima line train station:
The actual photos from early photo-sticker machines like the NeoPrint were quite small. These days the photos are much larger, and you can add effects and digitally manipulate the images before you print them out.
That's why it's rare to see an older machine like this still active. It's not because they break down easily, or blank sticker-sheets are hard to get, it's because customers don't want to use them.
This particular machine makes specific photo-stickers with an Enoshima train line theme, which is why it's still around. I've seen two other "place specific" NeoPrint machines before: once in Okinawa, and once in Matsushima in Miyagi.