Who's your friend at Indianapolis Central Library? Because I really want to talk to them about the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics (new version with more about digitization hopefully out later this year) because digitizing and OCRing zines that "someone had turned in" is a shitty and unethical thing to do unless that someone is Caleb Calloway and they gave their express permission to digitize it and make it available.
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Look, I hate to be "that guy," but this game doesn't exist.
I'm not saying that this person didn't see a weird pinball machine (I bet they did!), but that it's not a Junji Ito pinball machine. It's unfortunate that a lot of people see any horror/weird manga and assume that it's by Junji Ito. I can't count the number of times someone has described some art as by Junji Ito but it actually turns out to be Shintaro Kago or Suehiro Maruo. This person saw a pinball machine that made them feel weird over twenty years ago and later on read Uzumaki and thought it was the same thing.
If anything, I'd guess that he saw the pinball machine that Katsuhiro Otomo and Satoshi Kon made to promote the World Apartment Horror film in 1991. Otomo was pinball crazy and customized pinball machines whenever he could. Look what he made for Akira.
Translation: ""This is an original pinball machine created for the back cover of the fourth volume of the manga. Taito Corporation provided the machine, and Otomo completed it by cutting and pasting animation cells on it. The photo above shows Otomo's left arm, which he himself drew as a tattoo."
I'm not going to include it here because it's kinda NSFW, but look up the cover of the World Apartment Horror manga and tell me that couldn't be misremembered as "a face clearly visible with a spiral hole in it" to an 11-year-old kid who probably didn't actually look at the machine that much because he was excited to see the Playboy pinball machine and then sees one with that art on it instead.