I'm Sorry (arcade game)

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I'm Sorry, known in Japan as Gonbee no I'm Sorry, is an arcade game released by Coreland/Sega in 1985. This strange, action game plays very much like a Pac-Man clone, and stars a caricature of former Prime Minister of Japan, Kakuei Tanaka. The title is actually a play on the Japanese word for Prime Minister, Sori. Oddly enough this game, with so much Japanese satire, made it into some of the United States arcades.

[edit] Gameplay

The goal is for the greedy protagonist to collect all the gold bars while jumping over or defeating various enemies and obstacles in each maze-like level. Some of these enemies are: Japanese secret service agents and parodies of Japanese wrestler named Giant Baba, a moonwalking Michael Jackson, Madonna, Japanese comedian Tamori, Carl Lewis, and what looks like ex-NFL star/alleged murderer O.J. Simpson. When you collect all the gold in a given level, you must cash it into a building to beat the level. If the player is caught by one of the men wearing sunglasses and suits, the player's clothes will change into a white diaper while the captor changes into a leather S&M bikini and lashes his whip on the crying protagonist's back.

[edit] Rarity

The Video Arcade Preservation Society conducted a survey and found that of about 800 arcade machine collectors and their nearly 20,000 games, there aren't any instances of an I'm Sorry machine owned by a collector.^[1]

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