is a series of prize machine games developed and released by
Namco
was a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Na ...
, now known as
Bandai Namco Entertainment
is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Entertainment America and Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California an ...
for arcades in Japan. Up to four players use the metal shovels to scoop up candy and other prizes from a rotating plastic bowl inside the cabinet, and must have the prizes land on a moving table in order for the players to earn them. The original game was developed following requests for Namco to develop prize machine games as opposed to video arcade games in the late 1980s.
The series first began in June 1987 with ''Sweet Land'', and has received numerous updates and sequels, the latest of which being ''Sweet Land 5'', released in August 2015 by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
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See also
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Wide Wide Clipper'' - Similar series of prize machine arcade games.
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{{Namco electro mechanical games
Bandai Namco Entertainment franchises
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