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Multi-Interest Post: Fighting Tournaments, BattleBlock Theater Arcade, Speed of Light goes to FB

Multi-Interest Post: Fighting Tournaments, BattleBlock Theater Arcade, Speed of Light goes to FB

arcadehero July 19, 2012 0

There are a few Stinger Newsfeeds I’ve been neglecting so let’s wrap them up into one little fuzzball of a post. Newsfeed 1220-23 via Fighting To the Top – An article found on The

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Toyota Makes World’s Largest UFO Catcher

Toyota Makes World’s Largest UFO Catcher

arcadehero October 11, 2011 1

How big is the craze behind Sega’s UFO Catcher in Japan? Pretty big, in more ways than one. As a part of a family promotion, Toyota created  the world’s largest UFO Catcher crane this

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The DIY Crane: NXT Claw Game

The DIY Crane: NXT Claw Game

arcadehero September 20, 2011 0

(Thanks to Joe for the Tip; via Makezine.com) Filed under the “Legos/Erector Sets/Etc., Is there Anything They Can’t Do?” category

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The Boy In The Claw Machine (Part XXIV)

The Boy In The Claw Machine (Part XXIV)

arcadehero June 12, 2011 3

Newsfeed 1054 via As a part of our infrequently running series, here is another video of a small agile child finding their way into the confines of a crane machine. You don’t have to

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Robots conquer crane machines thanks to Robo Catcher

Robots conquer crane machines thanks to Robo Catcher

Shaggy May 25, 2009 3

In Japan it seems that the crane machine is both an art and a science and it never ceases to amaze me as to what companies cook up for cranes there. I am a

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Ice cream crane game

Ice cream crane game

Twisted Supreme July 17, 2008 0

Now if the good old British summer would sort itself out, this new crane could do well! [via Highway Games] (Image provided by The Stinger Report) Atlus has developed the first ever crane machine

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Kid gets stuck inside a crane machine

Kid gets stuck inside a crane machine

Shaggy April 19, 2008 0

I’ve seen pictures of this sort of thing happening before but this kid seems a little larger than others I’ve seen crawl into these things. Who knows, maybe the person recording the whole thing

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New Crane concept – Robo Crane

New Crane concept – Robo Crane

Shaggy August 13, 2007 3

  [Via Kevin Williams @ The Stinger Report] Toy cranes haven’t changed much over the years but as of late they have been seeing some hard competition from the likes of Stacker titles.  In

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