Friday, January 26, 2024

Exploring the arcades in ザ・スーパーガール The Super Girl episodes (1979)

The Super Girl was a TV show from 1979.  All 51 episodes have been uploaded to The Internet Archive.





We're looking at two episodes.  Thank you to tweakbod for finding and clipping these.

Episode 6: 狙われたリングの女王






1977 King of Kings - キング オブ キングス by ユニバーサル (Universal)

1978 Ninja Gun - ニンジャガン by 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki — Kasco)

exploring the arcade in the 1928 movie 十字路 (Jūjiro aka Crossroads)

This silent film from 1928 has a wonderful avant-garde amusement center sequence, with references to some very early games.


This movie can be watched at The Internet Archive.

Please note: I have colour-balanced the screenshots to help make the still images more legible.

Friday, January 12, 2024

book: 建築設計資料集成 第1 (Architectural Design Data Collection Part 1) 1942

This book is a guide of common measurements for architects, published in Showa 17 (1942).  I found out about this book via @ChillReactor.  It is available online via the NDL Digital Collections.  

full title: 建築設計資料集成 第1 (Architectural Design Data Collection Part 1) - 建築学会 編 (Edited by Architectural Institute of Japan) - published by 丸善 (Maruzen) 昭和17 (1942)

建築設計資料集成 第1 (Architectural Design Data Collection Part 1) 1942

There are a few pages of great interest for arcade fans:

pages 128-129

pages 132-133

page 134-135


Let's look at them in more detail.  Sadly, much of the text is too blurry for me to decipher, but I will do my best.  Thank you to dexdigi, shuu, and Ladios of GA for assisting with some of the text!

This book was also referenced by 竹内孝治 in the post 銃後の『建築設計資料集成』|未曾有の時局と娯楽場の射的コーナー.  (archive)  I have included the better scans they have put in their post.  This is a great relief.