Pachinko

Link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d4113pVii4

March 4, 2008, Pachinko in Ueno, Tokyo, Japan. Walking into a pachinko parlor is an assault on the senses: overwhelmingly bright lights, air thick with cigarette smoke, and the din of caterwauling pachinko machines. Seemingly the Japanese equivalent to slot machines, this mindless game is widespread in Tokyo. A player controls little more than a knob which determines the speed at which little metal balls plink down through array of pins and lights (and some don't even touch the knob at all, they simply feed the machine balls and watch it play itself). Buy little balls to begin playing, try to collect more little balls. Lucky players have stacks of small plastic trays full of metal spheres sitting behind them, the odd spoils of their zombie-like victories.