Quoted from Thunderpants:Pachinko parlors are noisy, smokey and generally full of looser idiots and yakyza wanabee's
the stores have ugly facades, are owned by shady gangsters. the business adds nothing positive to the community
People loose quite large amounts of money playing those things
Welcome to 80s/90s arcades 
I have often though of adding one, but the same issue arises for me - no flippers or other means to a skilled game other than the shooter rod. It is interesting that they did not in fact develop some sort of flipper system.
