Our crane game novice heads to Benex for a training day with the Assist Crew. We’re in the middle of a golden age of crane games in Japan. Though traditional video games continue to have a diminished presence at game centers, statistics show that the crane game industry more than doubled between 2013 and 2024, growing by 120 percent in that time frame. A lot of this is thanks to the diverse array of prizes that modern crane games offer. Plushies…
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