Bonus time?

Emm38 said:

Bonus time?

Cue horrible Mario Party flashbacks.

Maybe they should get a lucky ship to play for them instead? Like Yukikaz... wait, nevermind.

Madcat6204 said:

Maybe they should get a lucky ship to play for them instead? Like Yukikaz... wait, nevermind.

Well... they should have brought Fuso sisters to ensure 100% Luck...

Emm38 said:

Bonus time?

In Pachinko (the biggest/most stereotypical form of gambling in Japan), if you trigger certain conditions (usually a slot machine where each reel only stops with each individual hit of a target), the board will go into jackpot mode, where it will open up a large jackpot target that is more likely to be hit and pays out vastly more than normal for a limited time, or else it changes into a whole new game mode, like just plain being a free slot machine for a period of time where mashing buttons in a frenzy gets them bigger payouts. Since this is basically the only chance a gambler has to actually win their money back, (and entering it is a euphoria the gamblers get addicted to and Pavlovian conditioning to seek) gamblers will basically live their lives around getting this jackpot mode. If the board is close to another jackpot mode, after all, how could they leave, and give up the looming payout?! They just have to keep trying no matter how long it takes to get to the next jackpot mode, or some jerk will swoop in and get the jackpot YOU built up towards! Also, to make sure the hook stays in deep, there is a randomized bonus towards achieving the next jackpot mode in the immediate aftermath of a jackpot mode, sometimes called "fever mode", and not entirely because you clearly have a sickness when you're gunning for it. Fever mode makes it possible to get multiple jackpot modes in a relatively short period of time. Everything in the way Pachinko is designed is built around reinforcing excitement towards these next jackpot modes, with more flashing lights and full-on anime sequenceds playing on the TV on the back of the board getting more furious as you get closer to a jackpot mode.

Bonus time is like happy hour for pachinko; it's a designated time when jackpot mode is easier to reach, so it basically forces all the regulars to come into the pachinko parlors at a certain time of day (typically the off-hours for non-regulars) looking for the cheapest form of their next hit.

That sounds like fun. Not.

Claverhouse said:

That sounds like fun. Not.

Just remember, pachinko is so popular because gambling is illegal in Japan... but Pachinko isn't for some reason, even when you bet money for money (even if laundered through some intermediary tokens) and the whole thing is run by the Yakuza.

Also, the reason why pachinKonami fired Hideo Kojima and all the rest of their star game makers was because they were making more money selling Pachinko machines to Japan alone than they were selling wildly popular video game franchises to the whole world.