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Up to the plate stepped a company called Aruze, which had amassed huge wealth by developing and producing Pachinko machines for use in the various gambling parlors throughout Asia. Pachinko is a game that requires almost no effort to play. Prospective players put a few hundred yen into a machine, which in turn gives them a basket full of ball bearings. Then they walk over to a Pachinko machine and drop the bearings into the holes at various speeds. The balls bounce off posts and ramps inside the machine and, if the player is lucky, land in one of the prize holes at the bottom. There's also a variant of Pachinko called Pachi-Slot, which Aruze is especially known for. In Pachi-Slot, a slot machine kicks in when the bearings land in the prize holes. If the symbols match, the player can win a gaggle of Pachinko balls in return. Aruze wanted SNK's intellectual property so it could develop Pachi-Slot machines based upon popular SNK franchises, so, in January 2000, Aruze acquired SNK Corporation and its related companies. After the buyout, Aruze did little to support SNK's video game business. The company funneled almost no money into SNK's development studios and put only a haphazard effort into publishing SNK's properties on the successful home video game consoles of the time.
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