Pachinko is Life

The Pachinko Royale transpacific cruise liner departed San Francisco for Tokyo late in the season. In the second month of the charter a raging tempest blotted out all light except that of the lightening. The crew begged everyone to evacuate, but the guests chose to go down with their favorite pachinko machine. James, Hawaiian shirt over Steelers jersey clad America Kenjii, a geriatric Japanese matriarch Honza, a mysterious tracksuited tweeker from eastern Europe and you, the player were fighting over their favorite machine when the storm struck. Together they lifted Lost at Sea, as much food a...