Japanese Arm Wrestling Game Recalled for Breaking Arms
August 23rd, 2007 by HeywoodAccording to PCworld.com, Arm Spirit, a Japanese arm-wrestling game, was recalled from more than 150 arcades across the country after 3 people independently broke their arms while battling the machine. Apparently, the game has 10 levels of difficulty, including a French maid, drunken martial arts master, and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler. In response to the broken arms, Arm Spirit’s spokeswoman said, “The machine isn’t that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.“
Broken arms from an arcade game are pretty serious, but injuries in videogaming aren’t new, including a recent phenomenon: “Wii Elbow.” And something else just dawned on me: there would have been more of these Arm Spirit injuries, but honestly, who goes to arcades anymore, and furthermore, who plays the arm wrestling video game? Definitely tagging this one as ‘geekery.’
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