Type: Slot machines
Pachinko was originally developed just after the Second World War in the Japanese city of Nagoya and is the most popular game played in Japan, attracting some 30 million regular participants who between them spend almost a $250 billion per annum. The game has in recent years spread beyond its traditional heartlands and is becoming popular in the west, with pachinko parlours opening in the US and the United Kingdom in the last decade or so. It is said that people who want to play pachinko simply have to find the most hideous looking building in any part of Japan and that is pretty much guaranteed to be a parlour.