Pachinko
Pachinko (パチンコ) is a type of mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming. A pachinko machine resembles a vertical pinball machine, but has no flippers and uses a large number of small balls. The player fires balls into the machine, which then cascade down through a dense forest of pins. If the balls go into certain locations, they may be captured and sequences of events may be triggered that result in more balls being released. The object of the game is to capture as many balls as possible. These balls can then be exchanged for prizes. Pachinko machines were originally strictly mechanical, but modern ones have incorporated extensive electronics, becoming similar to video slot machines.
Pachinko parlors are widespread in Japan, and they usually also feature a number of slot machines (called pachislo or pachislots); hence, these venues operate and look similar to casinos. Modern pachinko machines are highly customizable, keeping enthusiasts continuously entertained.
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ALBUMS
- The Ecstasy of the Agony released: 2000
- The Virus That Would Not Die! released: 1997
- El Diablo En Senorita released: 1996
- Let There Be Singles (The Imports) released: 1996
- The Day the Needles Stood Still released: 1996
- Behind the Green released: 1996
- Who Shaved Pachinko? released: 1995
- Splendor In The Ass 2: Electric Boogaloo released:
The Ecstasy of the Agony
Released 2000- Geological Lust
- Eat That Cake
- Excerpt From "A Hard Choice"
- I'm O
- Largactyl
- Prisons vs. Preschools
- Hello / Goodbye
- Jackson
- Caos
- Excerpt From "Making a Difference"
- Police Force 06/16/00
- Termites Ate My House Up
- Un-United Kingdom (live)
- Her Song
- Sidewalk Begging
- Questions, Questions, Questions?
- New Feudalism
- I'm Being Followed Around by the CIA
- Premature Enlistment
- Temptation
- Demons
- Excerpt From "The Green Wedge"
- Race Riot
- Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter
- Overkill
- Excerpt From "Corporate Welfare"
- Kiyomoto
- Ez Jesus
- Baraboo
- Modranicht
The Virus That Would Not Die!
Released 1997- Video
- Trainwreck
- Half Life
- Bored With Beauty
- Oklahoma City Alarm Clock
- Life Sentence
- Dicks Hate the Police
- A Bright Shining Hell
- Trouble Shake
- 5 Cent Hustler, Part II: Trouble in Vegas
- Swell Song
- Wrong Bathroom
- Sometimes I Get This Urge
- Would We Be Alive
- C'Mon Baby
- I Wanna Be a Drug Sniffing Dog
- Sleepin' on Bowery Street
- Bomb School
- The Story of Thomas McElwee
- Marijuana
- The Chicken Cow
- Subterfuge
- King of the Road
Let There Be Singles (The Imports)
Released 1996- I'd Love to Save the World
- Keeping Time
- Know What I Got Here
- Ride
- Harrahya
- Doors
- Mexico
- Bobble Head
- Lesbians or Lovers
- Get Along Gang
- Drive
- Aliens
- Jerks in Progress
- TCTS
- Fuck Your Band
- Meat
- Thick Slab Meat
- My Own Self
- Wrong Bathroom
- Radar Love (live)
- Ice Cream Man (live)
- Manipulate (live)
- Brad
- Hey, There Goes That Kid
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by Pogues
Pachinko
by: PoguesI'm walking down Roppongi
The night is hot and smoggy
I drink a little coffee
A sake and a beer
I run into a ginja man
He speaks but I don't understand
He grins at me and takes my hand
And whispers in my ear
I play Deji Pachi
I play Deji Pachi
I play Deji Pachi
In my Pachinko dream
I go Uchi Domi
I go Uchi Domi
I go Uchi Domi
In my Pachinko dream
My senses all asunder
I stand and stare in wonder
There's bright light and there's thunder
In Pachinko land
Well versed in the way of Zen
My pockets lined full of yen
I walk the aisle and back again
And sit at Domo's hand
I play Deji Pachi
I play Deji Pachi
I play Deji Pachi
In my Pachinko dream
I go Uchi Domi
I go Uchi Domi
I go Uchi Domi
In my Pachinko dream
I'm on the lexus fever
My hand tight on the lever
I'm shrieking like a diva
Staring in a trance
Turn the handle to the right
A stream of silver balls in flight
It screams and howls a blaze of light
The earth moves below me
I'm laughing tears of sheer delight
As I go Uchi Domi
I play Deji Pachi
I play Deji Pachi
I play Deji Pachi
In my Pachinko dream
I go Uchi Domi
I go Uchi Domi
I go Uchi Domi
In my Pachinko dream
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