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Buying from Japan can be a gamble, this definitely is

Added 2022-03-02 13:21:18 +0000 UTC

From past experience I know that YouTube audiences aren’t drawn to my videos featuring gambling tech quite as enthusiastically as I am to the tech itself. So today while I’m featuring a device that sat on the fence between gambling and gaming, I’ve chosen to focus the thumb/title on the gaming aspect. It’s not strictly clickbait if it’s accurate…it’s more optimisation ;-)

Here’s the video - https://youtu.be/aj1SMUbAr50

If you know your historical gambling devices, you’ll have heard of a Trade Stimulator - if you're unfamiliar, they were small counter-top games of chance where you could win things such as bubble gum and cigarettes. These would commonly have been found in general stores in the US in the early 20th century. Whilst the machines presented a front of innocence to authorities, they were often used as a means to circumvent anti-gambling laws. By using the bubble gum payouts as tokens, your customers could gamble real money, with any winnings being paid by exchanging the ‘prizes’ with cash from the store’s till.

The reason I mention these is that this is effectively what I have to show you today. But this one dates from the early 1990s and comes from Japan - a country with its own perculiar gambling regulations… as demonstrated in my previous video about pachinko. https://youtu.be/bWV_zpRrCko

Hope you’re all doing well, take care and look after yourself.

UPDATE - Re-upped, deleted 3 seconds of nonsense.