This slide was posted on Ebay (archive), and I was alerted to it on Pachitalk. It appears to indicate it had been developed September 1970. Nothing I can see below would be incongruous with a Japanese arcade in 1970, and the most recent machine I can identify is from 1970. This image is a rare treat! There are very few images of arcades from this time, and most are black and white.
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| A lovely arcade in Japan, circa 1970! |
Let's look at what's inside!
At the front of the image is a grid of 4 crane games:
We can see the marquees on a few of these. The two on the right are Sega's original Skill Diga.
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| 1965 Skill Diga - スキル・ディガ by セガ (Sega) |
At the back on the left is Super Skill Diga.
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| 1968 Super Skill Diga - スーパー・スキル・ディガ by セガ (Sega) |
The front-left crane has a larger marquee area and I am unsure which model it is, but it is not a Sega or Taito crane.
The next 2 cranes are also Super Skill Diga.
Very dark, but to the left of those cranes is a pachinko machine.
Continuing down that row it kind of looks like more crane machines, but it's very hard to tell. There is a bright glowing lightbox and I do not know if that is a game and/or if the table in front of it is part of it. But we can see a machine to the right of that glowing box. You might not see much, but we are seeing a light-coloured vertical column, and then a slanted surface with some buttons.
I believe this is a 30 Test, seen from the side.
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| 1970 30 Test [Thirty Test] - サーティテスト by 中村製作所 (Nakamura Seisakusho) |
Look above the glowing backbox, we can see the broad side-art of a Missile!
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| 1969 Missile - ミサイル by セガ (Sega) |
Then let's move over to the right in the image, focusing on this block and moving left-to-right:
On the far left we see the side of what kind of looks like a pinball machine with stripes, but as was pointed out to me the legs don't join at the cab. It is probably a foosball game similar to Soccer Game, but with an extra stripe...
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| ~1969 Soccer Game - サッカーゲーム by 日本自動販売機 (Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki) |
Then a basketball game with an angular dome.
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| 1966 Basketball - バスケットボール by セガ (Sega) |
Then we see the side/back of another pinball machine, but I am unable to identify it.
More to the foreground, the next two area easy to identify.
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| 1969 Derby Day - ダ ービーデー by セガ (Sega) |
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| ~1966 Combat - コンバットガン (Combat Gun) by 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki) |
But the next machine has me stumped. It appears to have a transparent glass side with a blue-background marquee with dark/red writing on it.
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| unknown machine |
To the right of this block, facing to the left of the frame, what might look like a videogame cabinet at a glance is actually a roulette game, Colorette.
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| 1968 Colorette - コロレット by 中村製作所 (Nakamura Seisakusho) |
Further to the right we have a smart ball lineup.
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| All-7 Happy Ball - パイロンレース (Python Race) by 玉福産業 (Tamafuku Sangyo) |
Finally on the right we have a row of pachinko machines, but also a cool old payphone on the end of the aisle.
These are single-shot pachinko machines, where you insert one ball at a time into a hole on the right.
Not exactly, but something similar to this:
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| reference only: 1963 Heiwa single-shot pachinko |
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