Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms

Lucas123 writes "After three players broke their arms while wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages. Said game maker Atlus' spokeswoman: "The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.""

Beating it

[gujo-odori]

"Even women should be able to beat it"

I dunno, I think an artificial arm would work better for helping guys to beat it...

Besides, having a woman beat it would just be so out of place for most /.ers.

lol

[wizardforce]

Arm Spirit, which is only distributed in Japan, lets gamers advance through 10 levels battling, among other opponents, a French maid, a drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler.

that would suck, get your arm snapped by a Chihuahua... what happens in Japan stays in Japan.

I for one...

[background image]

...welcome our woman-beatable, arm-breaking mechanical overlords...

how is this funny?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't understand why this is categorized as humor when it deals with someone's pain and anguish.

Also the company claims that the arm isn't that strong. Yet the physics behind the arm and the leverage is sure to make engaging the machine in a friendly game of arm wrestling into something which is needlessly dangerous.

Thuuurs ur problem!

[russ1337]

>>> wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages

I think you probably would get hurt tangling with an arcade machine that has 150 mechanized appendages...

Prizes for winning

[Veramocor]

The Japanese sure know how to build a video game. This one came with a prize feature depending on how far you advanced. They had some crazy prizes for winning on the hardest level. The one that is most over the top was winning you own Mack truck.

Obligatory...

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those... sounds painful!

Recall the players

[EmbeddedJanitor]

It's really the players that are defective. The game is fine.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[tukkayoot]

Well said. You expressed your point so clearly, even a woman could understand it!

Finally

[timeOday]

An arcade game that's *definitely* harmful to children. No philosophical and ethical debate necessary!

Re:Ob. Colbert

[rumblin'rabbit]

/. reader's wrists are already strong enough, thank you very much.

Re:Thuuurs ur problem!

[Spudtrooper]

Guess they'll have to recall that tentacle rape simulator too...

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[gallwapa]

So easy, even a caveman could do it!

Re:theory and practice

[gad_zuki!]

It would also help if they didnt plug a 110 plug into a 220 socket.

In Soviet Russia...

[fearboy]

In Soviet Russia, game breaks YOU!

Now if the damn Russians would just invent an arm-breaking machine, the joke would work...

Re:Thuuurs ur problem!

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess they'll have to recall that tentacle rape simulator too...

You sir watch way to much hentia/anime porn

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[edflyerssn007]

I'm a caveman, you insensitive clod!

Really though, I get unending jokes because I'm a big guy with a beard and long hair, so....everyone's like, when did you start working for geico. Jerks.

-Ed

Re:Thuuurs ur problem!

[sqrt(2)]

Which is any amount.

Re:lol

[Anonymous Coward]

a French maid, a drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua

Sounds like Saturday night at my place.

Perverted Justice Called...

[shakestheclown]

Personally, I'm glad the kid didn't beat any of the lubed older guys!

Re:how is this funny?

[flyingfsck]

Well, it is only fun till someone gets hurt and then it is hilarious...

sigh

[friedman101]

And yet no one will recall the real doll [realdoll.com] for breaking hearts *sob*

Would you like some salt with that wound?

[bakura121]

"The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it."

Wow... a guy gets his arm broken by an arm wrestling machine and a spokesman says "even women should be able to beat it." Talk about kicking a man when he's down. Ouch!

Call Hans and Franz

[kaufmanmoore]

Japan has to many girly men. They need to be pumped up.

Re:how is this funny?

[timmarhy]

What kind soft pussy are you? pain and anguish? these are drunken idiots paying an obviously dangerous game (which the japs LOVE btw), probably pumping up the strength level to try impress mates/girls and then getting totally owned - i couldn't think of anything funnier.

Re:theory and practice

[roadkill-maker]

If you arm-wrestle against a human, they will: ... (b) usually not purposefully break your arm.

So this machine purposely breaks your arm? No wonder its getting recalled...

Re:lol

[Bryan Ischo]

I did a brief bit of consulting for a company developing cell phone apps. They had ties to some Korean cell phone manufacturers. Somehow they had gotten a hold of some Korean arcade systems as a trial to see if they would want to market them in the USA. One was called something like "Butt Smacker" and it was an upright arcade console with a screen and a recreation of a person's butt (made out of foam and plastic) protruding just below the screen. There was a paddle attached to the side of the cabinet.

I never saw the machine turned on but I can only imagine what the "game" was ...

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[unlametheweak]

No, he's merely giving an example where the average is a poor representation of the data set.

I think it's more a question of what he means than what he says (no pun intended).

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm an insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!

Re:theory and practice

[heinousjay]

Because "she" is a machine as well?

Sorry, had to swing at the slow pitch...

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[ookabooka]

You know, I'm not that sure that men really do have (on average) more physical strength than women. I mean, women spend all day cleaning and doing housework, thats more physical activity than going to a real job in a developed country where you sit at a computer all day.

I have a horrible sense of humor, I apologize. I respect women, really. . . prolly should have made this post AC.

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[Hal_Porter]

Are you seriously implying that in general men are not stronger than women? Dude you need to get out more. Anyone who has a problem with this IS IGNORING REALITY.

What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses. In fact the only people who came close to defeating her were women.

Or Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica - she beat the snot out some dude in the boxing episode. Or that chick in Serenity who's like 50kgs and a deadly weapon. Or Buffy the vampire slayer, another petite girl who kicks ass. Or any of the other heroines in future Joss Whedon stories.

I think you're the one who's ignoring reality.

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[andreyw]

If by reality you mean "cheezy TV shows", then yes.

Re:Obligatory...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well Linux already runs on ARM processors.

What was that, Han?

[confusedneutrino]

"Droids don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose..."

Sure there's not a wookie hiding in there somewhere?

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[operagost]

And yet, the Brits are the first to criticize Americans for still using SAE.

Re:Average vs. Typical

[Anonymous Coward]

The average person is going to continue saying that average things happen 'on average', including that the average woman is weaker than the average man.

Methinks you're going to have to act like the average and just accept it.

Don't mind me, I'm just trying for +2, Funny.

[SPQR_Julian]

Life is not a Joss Whedon TV show.

Gorrammit, it should be!

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because London has *no sunlight*. It's only the glare from all the CCTV camera lighting that gives even the faintest UV to its citizens.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[morcego]

Heck, even a cavewoman could understand that.

Re:even women?

[scottrocket]

I agree - I've simply met bodybuilding/athletic women who are inordinately strong (probably due to steroid use); likewise, most guys can't bench press 400#'s (& some of these women do - geh I feel threatened!).

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[QuickFox]

Just Fucking Use Real Measurements

How could he? He's an American you insensitive clod!

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[jemecki]

HELLO?? Chuck Norris is a man and he could easily defeat Xena and Buffy on steroids simultaneously. Unfortunately, the single Chuck Norris datapoint catapults the average strength of men far off the charts, making a male-female strength comparison very tricky indeed...

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[wallyhall]

I just like the tagging ambiguity ... "evenwomencanbeatit" ... I knew women had them, but I didn't know they were them.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[Fred_A]

And the US uses rocks, one rock being 24 pebbles if I remember correctly.

Re:even women?

[Nazlfrag]

Yet, women have the uncanny ability to totally screw a guy over without straining a muscle or leaving a mark.

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[Nazlfrag]

He wouldn't hit his son's future mother, and they would all fall pregnant just looking at Chuck. Your argument fails.

Re:Don't mind me, I'm just trying for +2, Funny.

[ben0207]

As /. posts go, it's not the funnest. ...I'll be in my bunk.

With all these spare machines sitting around...

[6Yankee]

...can we set them up to arm-wrestle each other? Then we could gamble on which one goes up in a cloud of smoke.

Two machines enter - one machine leaves!

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[zonestalker]

One thing you forget is he is Chuck Norris. He can't be defined in human terms. You are comparing Apples with Chuck Norris and his roundhouse judgement day kick. Please, sir, let's be more careful in our examples...

Re:even women?

[KDR_11k]

I wanna see Uwe Boll vs. Regina Halmich.

Re:Average vs. Typical

[dintech]

Boobs are a lot of weight.

Yes, on average woman have bigger boobs than men. Except from Robert Paulson of course.

Are we allowed to point out that fact? I'm watching for the black helicopters and PC swat team ropes dangling past the window...

Re:If you're too tall or too short...

[c6gunner]

You guys are deffinitely living up to the Slashdot stereotype.

As for me, I had no difficulty beating the machine. Neither did my sister.

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[rjshields]

What's wrong with Self-Addressed Envelopes?

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[nogginthenog]

What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses.

But now we know the truth: She's a fracking Cylon!!

What this game really needs...

[p4rri11iz3r]

What this game really needs is a $10,000 payout for beating it, so that some down-on-his-luck father can get enough money to gain custody of his child...

Re:"Even women should be able to beat it"

[GrievousMistake]

Why, what they gonna do? Beat him up?

Re:I see her point too, though

[sootman]

Budget cuts. He's got a Ruger 10/22.

Re:If you think that's bad....

[jollyreaper]

+5 informative? Look, I'm the OP and even I'm disturbed by this. "Boon Ga. Mmm, yes. Tell me more."

Re:We had one at work ... Yep

[hoggoth]

> You must have had an exciting childhood

Did I mention I would be wondering about this while rappelling down the inside of an active volcano on my way to rescuing a nun and a group of orphans trapped below? Just another day in my life...

Re:Are you out of your mind?

[ultranova]

Exactly. If I made $1 last year, and my friend made $1 million last year, we both "averaged" $500,000.

No, you both averaged 500,000 dollars 50 cents.