The oldest gacha, or gachapon, originated in Japan in the early 1960s. It was a type of vending machine that dispensed small toys or figurines inside a capsule for a set price. The name "gachapon" is a combination of the Japanese onomatopoeia "gacha" for the sound of the crank turning and "pon" for the sound of the capsule dropping into the dispenser tray. Gachapon quickly became popular in Japan and eventually spread to other parts of Asia and the world, evolving into the mobile game genre known as gacha games.