They had a game like this on Takeshi's Castle : "Donbura-kokko"*, where you ride down these rapids in a bowl. I get the feeling Takeshi's Castle was all impossible games or games of chance!
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*The standard bobbing onomatopoeia used for the giant peach in the story of Momotarou. I like to translate it as "roll-bobble-obble"
