Comments on:  “I was amazed Umamusume managed to pull it off.” Developer of classic Famicom horse racing series on legal difficulties of using real racehorse names https://automaton-media.com/en/news/i-was-amazed-umamusume-managed-to-pull-it-off-developer-of-classic-famicom-horse-racing-series-on-legal-difficulties-of-using-real-racehorse-names/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: HRCjail https://automaton-media.com/en/news/i-was-amazed-umamusume-managed-to-pull-it-off-developer-of-classic-famicom-horse-racing-series-on-legal-difficulties-of-using-real-racehorse-names/#comment-7470 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:35:36 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=56372#comment-7470 The horses are all part of a gambling racket, just like how gacha is a soulless, predatory business model designed to take advantage of the Japanese people’s predilection towards gambling, with 1 out of 10 japanese men being classifiable as problem gamblers. From gachapon machines instilling kids that gambling is fun, to pachinko using popular characters to lure people in with nostalgia, it’s no surprise that the Yakuza wants to lure excess men into wasting away their spendings on even more gambling.

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