Shawn (right) and Rhiannan Carnline play a claw game with 17-month-old Harlow at DUCK! claw arcade in Eagan, Minn., on Jan. 9.

Like the little green aliens in Disney’s “Toy Story,” people — often kids — may find themselves obsessed with “the claw.” Claw machines, also known as crane machines, dot arcades, malls, even grocery ...

EAGAN, Minnesota — When Zhengui "Z" Lin approached landlords about his business idea, they weren't sold. "We're telling them we're going to put 100 claw machines in a like 4,000 square foot area and ...

A claw machine is a staple at any arcade. Also known as crane games, they require players to insert money or tokens to use a claw-like device to grab a prize, lift it up, and then let it go over the ...

I love taking my son to the arcade, sharing with him the games I grew up playing and the workarounds that can help improve his odds of winning. On one such trip, we spent too much time and money ...

The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...

Arcade games whisk us back to the golden days of childhood, a time rife with the clinking sounds of coins and the palpable excitement at winning that coveted big-eyed, plush teddy. A popular game at ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...

Win a family trip to New York at Erneside Shopping Centre, Enniskillen! Enjoy festive claw machines, prizes, SuperValu & ...

Blending Asian arcade culture into Chicago’s Chinatown. “Claw It” is a claw-machine arcade filled with rows of brightly lit machines, stacked with plushies, prizes, and a whole lot of fun.

Capture adorable and apparently alive plushies that will follow you everywhere. Claw Machines cost in real life, but there’s no harm in spending hours catching plushies virtually in Claw Machine ...

Claw machines, or crane games, are a staple at any decent arcade - but as well as being incredibly fun they are also notoriously hard to win at. A claw machine, which is usually coin-operated, is ...