Lobsterbox: The Best Bar Game in the World

Of all of the diversions that bars and pubs across the world are want to have, from shuffleboard to darts, and even Pac-Man, one machine reigns supreme, and it is featured at one Redondo Beach bar. The Lobster Zone machine combines everything you hate about claw machines with everything you love about lobster: For a nominal fee, you are given the opportunity to attempt to grab a lobster out of the water, which will cook for you … if you’re victorious.

Although the pier is the go-to destination for all types of fishing, this machine takes it to a whole new level. When fishing off the pier, you have to deal with the problem of finding something edible in an entire ocean—which I think we can all agree is sizable. When you’re controlling the metal claw, poised precariously above the unsuspecting crustaceans, all you have to do it point and click.

I am unceremoniously avoiding any comments about shooting fish in barrels; that would just be tacky. I would however like to point out that the irony of grabbing a lobster with a claw was enough to make me feel intoxicated at my own evolutionary superiority.

Although there is no shortage of ways to spend your time at a bar, I would bet dollars to lobsters* that you will find no better bar entertainment than fishing for lobsters at Kilkenny’s. Darts and pool are fun, but if you win all you get are bragging rights, rather than a lobster dinner.

* Completely unrelated note regarding lobsters: As it turns out (according to the radio show that I was listening to yesterday), though lobsters can grow very large, they show no signs of aging. Bust that fun fact out at your next dinner party and prepare for a standing ovation.