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2-08-2008 @ 3:54PM
Croove55 said...
Interesting... So I wonder what precautions they take to keep people from tucking the DSes into their jacket pockets, denying that they were ever loaned the system, and walking off the train. Do they take mugshots? Attach GPS to each DS? Or are people really that much courteous over in the land of the rising sun?
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2-08-2008 @ 4:09PM
hvnlysoldr said...
A combination of most of those. Japanese culture it would be more trusting. They probably have all the serial numbers of the loaned systems. And like Disney's park program have a device attached. After all you're playing those two DS games! Also likely they'll have your credit card number scanned before hand if all else fails.
2-08-2008 @ 9:35PM
RootiePatootie said...
I had a bit of nostalgia seeing this....I remember riding the bullet train in Japan and playing my old original Game Boy for a good chunk of the ride from Tokyo to Sendai, and then back a little over a week later. This was before I had a battery pack for the GB (but I did have one for my portable CD player...MP3 players had yet to come out in '93) so I had a rather HUGE stash of batteries in my suitcase for my GB and my portable shortwave receiver (although that has an AC adapter that works worldwide, as it did on my CD player when I was in the hotel room). Nothing like a small BOX of AAs in the suitcase :)
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2-08-2008 @ 9:37PM
Henley said...
they would possibly just HANG ONTO your credit card
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2-20-2008 @ 6:48AM
Hかn said...
In Japan, you would usually pay in cash. And no one would think of stealing something that was loaned to them.