Players launch soccer balls across the blown - up, two -
story Pachinko board, wending their way down to scoring buckets in the lobby below.
The most troubling allegation coming out of the Nikkei
story suggests that video game developers at Konami who were no longer seen as useful, especially as the company shifts focus to the mobile game market, have been reassigned as security guards, custodial staff at Konami fitness clubs, or working on assembly lines for
pachinko machines.