I am very happy to share one of my favourite auction catalogues. This catalogue featured some of the most wonderful machines made between 1885-1915, and only a few machines outside of those years. This is one of the most important collections of European coinop history ever assembled.
Download the PDF from archive.org
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| The Costa-Haskell Collection of early and important Coin Machines (1997) @ archive.org |
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2 more glorious Coin Journal scans! (previously: 1992-09 and 1993-07)
If you would like to contribute money towards helping us acquire and archive more issues, please get in touch.
If you want the highest quality scans, download the CBZ files. They are 4.2 GB and 3.7 GB respectively. If you rename a .CBZ file to .ZIP then you can unzip it and have access to each scanned page in full resolution.
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| 月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] 1994-10 |
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| 月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] 1997-10 |
An iconic arcade game mechanism that still has drawing power today, basketball games where you pop the ball into the net have been popular for generations. Over on my eremeka site I have been writing about the confusing history of basketball games in Japan, and I wanted to present a streamlined international timeline as part of the Niche Mechanisms series.
We will look at games that are 2-player head-to-head and use a series of buttons to activate solenoids to fire balls from holes that are resting in grooves. Not every game is basketball-themed, but most are.
I have compiled the annual "Amusement Machines" summaries from Cash Box magazine. Thank you David E. F. Gleason for your wonderful site World Radio History and your commitment to archiving and preservation.
Read + download at archive.org
This gives a glimpse of most amusement machines found in Cash Box across nearly 3 decades. Please note that it sometimes shows the machines written about in the past year, not just machines that were released that year, so some machines will appear in more than one year, and some machines might have been released a year before appearing in Cash Box, but those are rare exceptions.
example pages:
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| 1955 |
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| 1956 |
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| 1964 |
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| 1969 |
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| 1976 |
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| 1983 |
The anniversary was always celebrated in the first issue of July. This feature continued until 1985, but the 1984 issue with it is not currently online. If we look at the cover of the 1984-07-07 issue that is online, it says that it is Part 2.
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| Cash Box 1984-07-07: Part 2 cover detail |
Last month, me and a few other people pooled money to purchase a stack of Coin Journal magazines. Detchibe has scanned the first two of them. These are enormous issues and rather difficult to scan well, so I hope you can appreciate the work that goes into bringing these to the public.
If you want the highest quality scans, download the CBZ files. They are 3.8 GB and 4.5 GB respectively. If you rename a .CBZ file to .ZIP then you can unzip it and have access to each scanned page in full resolution.
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| 月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] 1992-09 |
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| 月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] 1993-07 |
We are looking for donations of rare magazines that have not been scanned, and funds to go towards purchasing more magazines.
This is a movie I have been trying to find for a long time. It is a comedy filled with small sketches and songs centering around a pachinko parlor. I have uploaded this film to the internet archive.
This film was released in January 1952, so it was shot in 1951.
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| illustrations of the characters have been added to this pachinko machine. You can see the original below. |
After years of searching I finally acquired a copy of Rinchi from 1949! It is remarkable to have any footage of a Japanese arcade in the 1940s.
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| 私刑（リンチ） (1949) |
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| first shot shows the arcade in the background |
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| pachinko machines on the left, and on the right appears to be 3 flipperless pinball machines. There are not any details I can use to discern which games they are, but here is a list of flipperless pinball machines from Japan. |
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| cork shooting gallery! |
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| The targets machine rotates, like a loom or a thresher. |
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| loading the gun part 1: she uses the floor to push something into the gun |
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| 2: then she uses the tabletop to push a cork into it |
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| 3: she fires |
