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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeether" data-source="post: 52777" data-attributes="member: 1271">On the Japanese show "Game Center CX" there's a segment where the host, Arino, visits arcades in Japan and there's at least 2 segments with pinball machines in a couple of episodes. One is Gottlieb's Super Mario Bros. machine and the other is some really old EM one with one of the flippers wrapped in tape from wear (I forgot the table name). The official DVD set that came out last year does not have these segments due to licensing issues but if you look for the fansubbed clips you can find them. I'll try to see which episodes have those specific parts, there's an episode guide online with summaries.It's kind of strange too, because I don't think pinball ever caught on in Japan, what with pachinko being a bigger thing.Also I remember reading of some film that used pinball as a metaphor for street life, I think it was a Ralph Bakshi animated movie. There was also an episode of The District (anyone remember that show? It had the woman who played the Chief in the Carmen Sandiego game shows on it and I remember they sent her character off when she passed away) with a guy who was pissed off at a pinball machine, but it's been so long since I saw it that I cannot remember for the life of me what table it was and I'm pretty sure at some point it got smashed by the guy after some cop pinned him down.</blockquote>

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