>>35566678The Pachinko thing is literally what the Game Corner is. It's run by Yakuza, it's fun games you have to buy special currency for, and then you get more of the currency that can't go back to normal money. Then you leave the building and go next door where you can trade the currency for prizes instead. That IS the pachinko thing (the prizes you can trade for aren't in the actual pachinko parlor, by the way). And it's highly illegal in Japan where gambling is also super against the law, but they don't shy away from it. And they don't care if it's in video games, because it doesn't matter.
In EU anything that involves paying for something that can be used to play a "game of chance" (IE anything that involves any amount of random chance in it's design) and can be won back in a larger amount or can result in something else being won constitutes gambling. So, as an example, the traditional Game Corner where you pay for coins and win coins back at potentially higher amounts, or could potentially lose coins, is considered gambling. Conversely, the traditional Game Corner, but instead you buy tokens that can be used to play games and win tickets that can be traded in for prizes? Also gambling. If you have to pay money to play a game where you can potentially lose money and any amount of random chance is involved, the EU considers it gambling.
Take Voltorb Flip to be the perfect example. Voltorb Flip was created by the localization staff for the games to work within the EU regulations on gambling in games to adhere the the PEGI sustem. You don't pay the guy in charge any money to begin playing, and then win small amounts on the table. The game involves some random chance, but isn't gambling because the chances of you losing coins are zero.
