So I don't know Japanese or Pachinko, but I was curious how that's like, cause it has quite similar origins to Pinball. Anyway, there's that gambling hall in Pachinko Challenger and the machines seem to incorporate slot mechanics here. I started with 5000 balls and managed to make over 51k out of them. Could play any machine just once, but didn't try all cause they're all the same it seems. The guy at the stairs let me pass to the next floor but the first machine with its different design sucked thousands from me and I realized I almost spent two hours watching flickering stuff that doesn't make much sense to me, so I quit. I'm probably more the hold em guy when it comes to gambling. This is very passive, even though you can control the intensity of how balls are pushed into the machine. Then they just hit stuff on their way down, hopefully increasing your score represented by your stock of balls. Could be more fun should it have deeper RPG elements, but since I can't read what the other characters are saying, it doesn't add to the experience. I'm wondering why the hall is that empty anyway. Those places seem to be packed in Japan travel videos on YouTube. The two different kinds of machines I played don't look bad though simplistic, but aren't at all as fascinating as a Pinball table can be. If there is a similar attraction in Pachinko, the game failed at transporting that via the simulation. If there's something else Pachinko Challenger offers I totally missed that due to language problems. I would have kept this crude comment part of my log, but as this is rather special interest it might be the only piece of information ever posted on these pages and I doubt you want to put in the effort to change that. But if you do, I'd like to learn what I might have not understood.