Before coming to Taiwan, I had never actually seen one of those coin-operated arcade games where the player attempts to pick up stuffed animals in a glass booth using joystick-controlled pincers.
I read now that the machine can now be found in some American restaurants, but with a twist. Instead of toys, the glass booths now contain live lobsters. What you capture, you eat.
The animal rights crowd aren’t too happy about the whole thing. But it just seems to me that if you’re going to thrown into a big pot of boiling water, maybe being picked up with a set of plastic-coated pincers is the least of your worries. [This webpage no longer exists. Click the link for the downloadable file on the archived page on the Wayback Machine. Alternatively, view the YouTube video below.]
A Gamble with Some Big Claws. [The webpage no longer exists. Click the link for the archived page on the Wayback Machine.]
A somewhat related "Monty" cartoon. No rioting, please. [The webpage no longer exists, and the cartoon is not visible on the page which was indexed by the Wayback Machine.]
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that is quite a twist! Can’t say that i’ve seen a game like that, but I will gladly just stick to my cocktail arcade machine at home. Much safer!