Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2015 | Page 27

GACHA:
IS THE
THRILL
GONE?

Journalist: Starr Marx

“Way back in the day”, is the way the old timers
begin their stories, in this case the Second Life
(SL) old timer we are citing is me. So, “Way back
in the day” refers to before “The Arcade”, one
of the most successful Gacha Events in SL.
Before Gacha was a word I had ever heard, other
than when my brother would yell GOTCHA while
grabbing me painfully by my nose and twisting
it, Gacha being so close to Gotcha, was not something I looked forward to discovering when I first
heard the term in SL.
However, you can imagine my surprise, when
one of my best girlfriends shared a fun little item
she had run across called “Gacha”. It was in a
Japanese stylized sim where we found a row of
cute little vending machines filled with a series of
related trinkets. At first I was skeptical to touch
such an odd contraption, one that appeared to
be similar to a one-legged-bandit gambling machine – but, after getting the illusive “Rare” that
my friend wanted, she began passing me some
Photo by Wild Bedrosian

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