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TIL about the South Korean arcade game Boong-Ga Boong-Ga. The object of the game is to score points by spanking or performing kancho, poke the anus, on a model of a human posterior embedded in the game's cabinet. A plastic finger is attached to the machine for players to perform the latter

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