What the claw arcade game tells us about the cost of living crisis | Zoe Williams
There’s a particular game involving a metal claw – it goes by the name of claw-game.
Key points
- You would take that as the price of a bit of family fun, except the claw never grabbed a toy.
- The frustration for a six-year-old was immense, every lost pound making the probably flammable stuffed hamster more urgently desirable.
- The system is rigged – and it’s time we kicked over the toy dispenser About a decade ago, the financial crash was almost a decade old.
There’s a particular game involving a metal claw – it goes by the name of claw-game.
You put in a pound, and try to manipulate the claw to grab a toy that is worth nothing like a pound.
But it was way worse for me, because I was clinging on to some residual 80s idea of arcade-honour.
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