The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --A video game arcade in Japan was awarded a Guinness World Record for the largest number of claw crane machine games in one venue: 477. Genda Sega Entertainment announced Sega Shinjuku ...

According to Vox.com video, crane machines involve a lot of luck and little skill. (Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger) Each summer, thousands of New Jersey boardwalk visitors pump quarter after quarter ...

Crane games are so ubiquitous in Japan that they feel like something that’s always been a part of the country, like the arcade landscape equivalent of Mount Fuji. But much like how there was no Mount ...