"Anyone from age three to 83 can play this thing," he says. "It's just such a simple arcade game that it attracts everybody . . . The claw machine has really stood the test of time."
Matt Magnone's "Journey to the Claw Machine" can be viewed at youtube.com/user/matt3756.
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