- From cigarettes to candy - This year, the industry is officially celebrating the 60th anniversary of these construction crane-inspired machines in Japan. But they have actually been around since ...

AS Taiwan's economy becomes mired in the doldrums, claw crane arcades where customers lower a grabber to try to pick up a prize from a glass box are booming as affordable entertainment, while ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Japan — As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls — not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming ...