Pako King ™ is a never before seen blend of game favorites
like pachinko, pinball and breakout, all seamlessly fused with your favorite characters and worlds from DreamWorks Animation.
It plays a lot
like pachinko (or The Price Is Right's Plinko game) but instead of dropping balls into a loud machine with bright flashing lights, you're terrorizing a small town at the foot of a mountain by knocking down a boulder, directing the giant rock into smashing cars, trees, animals, and even small aircraft along the way.
In other words, gambling machines
like Pachinko.
«It's a little
like a pachinko machine,» Frechette says, referring to a type of vertical pinball gaming machine found in Japan.
Not exact matches
The material acts
like the pegs in a
pachinko game, slowing and directing the metal balls as they fall.
Core franchises
like Silent Hill, Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid were turned into
Pachinko machines.
For the longest time, there's been a gag that Konami was going to turn Metal Gear Solid into a
pachinko machine,
like it did with Castlevania and Silent Hill.
Pachinko is a pinball
like gambling game popular in Japan, and Konami has been adapting their franchises to Pachislot versions, to the dismay of many fans of said series.
A 2011 CNN Travel article certainly makes a
pachinko parlor sound
like a hypnotic atmosphere:
CEO Michael Pietsch said, «Our good first quarter results came from many places: # 1 bestselling books by HBG house authors James Patterson, David Baldacci, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Brad Meltzer, from backlist hits
like You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero, Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza, and
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and from breakout bestsellers including Michael Isikoff & David Corn's riveting Russian Roulette, Jennifer Palmieri's powerful Dear Madam President, Peter Brown's delightful The Wild Robot Escapes and Vashti Harrison's inspiring Little Leaders.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee I
like to think that after a long day of wrangling her children around and putting together picture - perfect meals, Meg
likes to relax with absorbing, sprawling historical novels she can discuss with her beloved husband.
Reading
Pachinko is
like binge - watching every season of an HBO series.
Once you feel
like you have a good amount, head over to the
Pachinko Machine and give it whirl.
As for the goat, you can play a «
pachinko»
like mini-game to feed it turnips.
Considering how the good entries are outnumbered by the bad ones, and the existence of that stupid
pachinko machine feels
like the nail in the coffin for the series, I couldn't put the whole franchise in this section, as I had with Amnesia or Condemned.