exploring the arcade in the 1978 movie 鬼畜 / Kichiku (The Demon)

Can't say I would recommend this movie given the dark subject matter, but hey let's check out the arcade games in it anyways!   This is another movie that comes to us via a TOO_yoshikawa tweet,

鬼畜 / Kichiku (The Demon) - 1978

This is a bit of a tantalizing-yet-disappoint arcade exploration.  We can see many machines, but there are too many I have been unable to identify with confidence.  But, we work with what we have.  I always want to try and state my assumptions and uncertainties as I do these.

Let's start with this scene:

1982 82遊戯機械総合年鑑 (1982 Amusement Machine Yearbook)

 And another one is now on the archives and I can share it with you!

1982 82遊戯機械総合年鑑 (1982 Amusement Machine Yearbook)

Go browse / download the PDF from archive.org.

the entire run of Nours magazine has been scanned

Prolific scanner-at-large and GA contributor newyokohama has finished their quest for scanning all 52 issues of Nours magazine.  Nours was the Namco in-house magazine, which was preceded by NG.  Issues were given away at the time, but prices have drastically spiked in recent years as nostalgia for them grew, and people realized that free ephemera was seldom preserved.

Download all 52 issues of Nours from archive.org

Each issue has an entry on the 765style blog, highlighting the contents and displaying the cover.  Some random issues as examples:

NOURS Magazine – Volume 1 – Summer 1993

NOURS Magazine – Volume 12 – Summer 1996

NOURS Magazine – Volume 48 – Spring 2005

NOURS Magazine – Volume 51 – Winter 2005