Arm wrestling game recalled for breaking arms
- August 22, 2007 08:44 AM PST
- Email this!
Japanese game maker Atlus said on Tuesday that it would remove 150 Arm Spirit machines from Japanese arcades after three players broke their arms while wrestling with the game's mechanized appendage.
Arm Spirit is stronger than you, really.
"The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man," said an Atlus spokeswoman. "Even women should be able to beat it," the company claimed saying that it would check the machines for malfunctions as "a precaution."
"We think that maybe some players get overexcited and twist their arms in an unnatural way," the rep added.
Arm Spirit, which is only distributed in Japan, lets gamers advance through 10 levels, battling a French maid, a drunken martial arts master, and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler.
In the spirit of the late Phil Rizzuto, alls I can say is "Holy Cow!" What's even cooler is that the company actually disses the players who broke their arms. Scrawny men.
