Kirby arcade game from 2007

[Grandy02]

On HAL's website, there is info on a Kirby arcade game released in December 2007. If I romanized "星のカービィ メダルランドの魔法の塔" right, its name is "Hoshi no Kirby: Medal Land no Mahō no Tō" (lit. Kirby of the Stars: The Magic Tower of Medal Land):
Photo on the HTML website

But I have pretty much no clue what this game is about. It seems that only two non-Japanese sites do even mention this game. My fansite and this one which has a brief info:
www.thechaogarden.com/KirbyDream/MedalLand.html

The site mentions this entry in HAL's diary that introduces the machine:
www.hallab.co.jp/diary/detail.php?id=318

There is text on the Flash version of HAL's site, but fully in Japanese, of course:

I'd be glad if someone could translate this and tell about the "gameplay"!

[Fryguy64]

No idea, but it's clearly not a videogame. No doubt there's been loads of Nintendo themed arcade and Pachinko machines created over the last 20 years.

[nocturnal YL]

No. I don't know for other places, but over here token-based amusement machines are purely products of Konami or Sega. These two ONLY.

But yeah. This is basically a Kirby-themed "push-the-token-down" amusement machines.

[Grandy02]

May 19, 2009 17:06:12 GMT -5 nocturnal YL said:

No. I don't know for other places, but over here token-based amusement machines are purely products of Konami or Sega. These two ONLY.

But yeah. This is basically a Kirby-themed "push-the-token-down" amusement machines.

Thanks, but I'm not into such amusement machines at all, could you explain what happens in this "game" (or whatever you want to call it)?

[nocturnal YL]

Did some Wikipedia searches. It's called a "coin pusher".

Reference links:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münzschieber
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_game
www.weinerdistributing.com/coin-pushers.htm

[Grandy02]

@yl: I'm late, but thank you for the links, now I've a better imagination of such games.