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As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo’s many bustling arcade halls — not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...

Like the little green aliens in Disney’s “Toy Story,” people — often kids — may find themselves obsessed with “the claw.” Claw machines, also known as crane machines, dot arcades, malls, even grocery ...

Skate Zone 71 in Columbus has added a "Become the Claw" experience, allowing guests to act as a human claw machine. The attraction is available during regular skating sessions and costs $10, with a ...

About 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, ...

I love taking my son to the arcade, sharing with him the games I grew up playing and the workarounds that can help improve his odds of winning. On one such trip, we spent too much time and money ...

Christopher Salazar could not stop with the plush round Kool-Aid Man. The 11-year-old claw machine master had to have more. So, outside a South Side strip mall on a recent early evening, he and his ...

A TikTok gamer has revealed the sneaky reason players can't seem to beat the ever-vexing claw machine arcade game -- and how to game the system so they win every time. Buena Vista Pictures Here’s how ...

In a crowded casino made for kids, stocked with rows upon rows of neon, chiming claw machines, I saw my 12-year-old son’s life flash before my eyes. He had already drained $20 into a single machine ...

Kids, young adults and even elderly folks are packing into neon-lit rooms, all focused on the same mission: snagging stuffed animals from finicky claw machines in arcades that are all the rage in ...

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