Pachinko is the name of the game.

It's a form of vertical pinball in which the player shoots small metal balls into a pin-filled playing field. The balls then bounce from pin to pin until they come to rest in one of many compartments with various payout values.

There are actually around 4 million of these machines in Japan and the Japanese are crazy about them. The maximum bet value on these machines is a lot lower than on the pokies over here.

Ryan