Peering into a dimly-lit corner of the arcade, Andrew noticed several cabinets that lit up the otherwise dark alcove. They could easily have been mistaken for any old arcade cabinets, were it not for a small neon sign centered above them: 'GACHA GAME ZONE.'
Gacha games? That didn't make much sense to him. Weren't gacha games those phone apps where you had a random chance to get the particular characters you wanted to use it whatever the core gameplay was? How could you have gacha arcade cabinets? Intrigued, Andrew couldn't help but get a closer look.
The first thing that stood out was the disclaimer obscured by the cabinets until you were right in front of it. Pulling his phone out to shed some light, he looked over the writing.
'All gachapon-based arcade entertainment cabinets are provided by Turnkey Fun Enterprises. Any resemblance between TF Enterprises properties and existing gachapon media is purely coincidental and without intended malice from company developers.
By using the provided product, the end user absolves TF Enterprises of any responsibility for potential duress caused by physical and/or mental effects of said use of product.
Any character rolls are final. NO REFUNDS.
If the form of an attained character is undesirable, either pay to roll again or call TF Enterprises customer service at - "
Andrew had seen enough. It was mostly just the usual corporate ass-covering, other than the strangely worded final line. He simply brushed it off as a poor translation. Turning the light of his phone back off, he put his attention back on the cabinets themselves. There were no advertisements regarding a downloadable app, phone integration, or anything else that would have made this setup make sense to him. Instead, each cabinet simply had external art - almost all in varying anime styles, he noted - a display monitor with some basic information, a coin slot, and an old hand-turned crank like that of a capsule vending machine.
Curiosity finally got the better of the young man, as he decided to test one of the cabinets firsthand. He chose...