Need Help With The Name Of A Street Game

[ToL]

A friend and I were just discussing Xbox Live Arcade games, and Peggle came up. I've never tried it, but my mate said you fire a ball up and have to knock it down into orange pegs.

This reminded me of a game in Shenmue 2 in South Carmain Qtr, where you drop a ball from the top of a board and it has to hit the circles at the bottom of the board after navigating its way through pegs.

I remember you could take over control of the stand from the owner and play against other NPC's.

Any idea what the name of that street game was?

[lavrentis]

Lucky Hit.

[ToL]

Class. Thanks a ton. Been far too long since I played Shenmue 2, if my DC still worked, I'd be on it in a flash.
Thanks again.

[Riku Rose]

Would you like to try a game of lucky hit?

[Crimson Ryan]

Reminds me, where's that guy with his homemade board?

[SHENMUE_FTW]

Reminds me, where's that guy with his homemade board?

That'd be me.

Still not finished :( Had exams and stuff to do. Must get round to it....

[Bluecast]

It's really called Patchinko and HUGE in Japan.
Now even though it's illegal to gamble,but some find a way to make money off their winnings.

The underworld is extensively involved in the pachinko industry, which makes an inviting target because of the large number of cash transactions. The practice of under-reporting pachinko revenues is well known, and was even a focus of a popular movie by Juzo Itami, Marusa no Onna (A Taxing Woman, 1987), about a diligent investigator for the Japanese IRS. Despite some recent moves to tighten control over the industry and a few high-profile tax evasion prosecutions, there is a long-standing pattern of public and official indifference to the industry's underworld ties, as well as tolerance for the accompanying illegal activities.

When a pachinko parlor customer opts for a "special" prize, he or she must take that prize elsewhere to receive the cash payoff. Because the cash payoffs are illegal, they cannot take place openly within the parlor itself. Typically customers are directed to back-alley locations where they make the exchange through what often is literally a hole in the wall.

The party on the other side of the hole in the wall (you will rarely see anything more than a hand when you make the exchange) is a kind of sub-contractor who dispenses cash for the special prizes and then sells the prizes back to the pachinko parlor with a fixed margin added on.

http://www.mangajin.com/mangajin/sample ... chinko.htm



Oh and Peggle is awesome,I got it off steam and you can also get it on DS.(perfect on the go game)

[Crimson Ryan]

Reminds me, where's that guy with his homemade board?

That'd be me.

Still not finished :( Had exams and stuff to do. Must get round to it....

Nice one, Dean!