Checking out Japanese Arcades

What the heck!? That Mr. Saturn has no eyebrows! :O

So freaking awesome. Makes me appreciate the stuff that’s shown up that much more.

Plushies were still in the smaller arcades when I left Japan a month ago, but major arcades are sold out.

If I’d known you were going to be posting videos of the Saturn-catching, I would have sent you the few I have using the scissors-type machines. XD;

I have a video like this of me failing.

There was a new arcade near Kichijoji Station (on the Chuo main line) that had Mister Saturns about a month ago. I don’t know if they are still there now though!

I want a no-eyebrows one.

OMG! that master belch is so ugly! I need him and his cute uglyness ~D:

*cries*

No eyebrows one freaks me out.

Surpising that just by taking the eyebrows off it looks a whole lot different..

OMG! The Belch is soooo cute! AHHH

Get the one with no eyebrows and sell it for like $8000 I wish I loved there so I could get these guys for dirt cheap instead of shelling out $50+ each. -.-

*lived

It’s so weird to see people get this stuff and not care TOO much..I’d flip out haha

I can indeed confirm that the Geppus (Master Belch) were incredibly hard to come by. I made another post stating that of the 3 weeks that I was in Japan, the dozen or so UFO Catchers I went to only had ONE Geppu prize in it.
I ended up winning 2-3 Mr. Saturns, if I recall. One was from the exact method used in the first video. I used the chain ball to my advantage and basically “hooked one”.
UFO Catchers in Japan are awesome. There was basically one in every corner, and have prizes of just about anything–from plushes, to Cup of Noodles.
Total spending on the plushes I won: ~$20.
Amount they would have gone for on eBay: ~$100, maybe.

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that poor eyebrow-less mr.saturn! shaving mr.saturns eyebrow is like shaving chuck norris.

I want a Mr. Saturn!!!Japan always get the good things!

Looks like Mr. Staurn had an accident with the a Razor.ZOOM!There Eyebrows ounce had now gone…Dakota.

I really wish I could go there and play that, right now.

No eyebrow Saturn is cute.

The brow-less M.r Saturn is really cute, but Ms. Anno is even cuter. :3

My wife and I were in Tokyo in June and on our very last day there we spent our very last coins getting a Belch one more coin away from our excited little hands. We sprinted to the JR station to get refunds on our Suica cards but by the time we returned someone else got it. Curses!!!

@RObert, Sounds like a rookie mistake. One of you should have stayed and held the machine.

That person in the second video must be feeling like she’s got a lot of good luck.

And yet, people still complain the Earthbound doesn’t get enough attention.

^EARTHBOUND doesn’t. MOTHER does, in Japan only.