scans: Amusement Industry 1973-10 & 1974-01, Sega Price Lists 1972-09 & 1973-01, Coin Journal 1993-09

We pooled our money and bought some very expensive ephemera from Japan.  The first four were quite damaged and Detchibe did an amazing job preserving what they could.  Despite the severe damage to the issues, they still cost a significant amount of money!  Luckily, most of each item is still quite legible.

Please click on the label of each picture to go to The Internet Archive to download the full scans.

アミューズメント産業 [Amusement Industry] Vol. 2 No. 11 (December 1973)

アミューズメント産業 [Amusement Industry] Vol. 3 No. 1 (January 1974)

Sega Price List 1972-09

Sega Price List 1973-01

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 18 No. 9 (September 1993)

Updates

Sega in the 1960s: added the Rosen AAMA video, and many of the photographs from it. (added to the bottom)

Data East Pinball music: Tales From The Crypt pinball soundtrack link added

exploring the arcade in 1992-01 TVムック故郷は欧州　意外なパチンコ進化論 / TV Mook Mystery Journey: Surprising theory of pachinko evolution:  Numerous machines located and updated thanks to the 1997 Costa-Haskell auction catalogue, amongst other sources. (Mistigri, Le Bachelet, many more)

exploring pachinko in Japanese cinema... has been broken up in to two parts: Before 1970, and 1970+.  I also added these movies:

• 1949 - 私刑（リンチ） (Rinchi)
• 1952 - 大当りパチンコ娘 / Oatari pachinko musume (Jackpot Pachinko Girl)
• 1961 - 警視庁物語１２人の刑事 / Keishichô monogatari: jûni-nin no keiji (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Story: 12 Detectives)
• 1963 - 若い東京の屋根の下 / Wakai Tokyo no yane no shita (Under the roofs of young Tokyo)
• 1969 - 現代やくざ 与太者仁義  Gendai Yakuza Yotamono Jingi (A Modern Yakuza The Code of The Lawless)
• 1974 - ㊙色情めす市場  (Maruhi) shikijô mesu ichiba (Secret Chronicle - She Beast Market)

Tamakorogashi - Japanese Roll Ball - 玉ころがし: added Mills' Japanese Booth

Niche Mechanisms 005: booze barometers - added Hot Rod, Alcohol Meter, Booze-O-Meter

exploring pachinko in Japanese cinema... PART 2

The original post exploring pachinko in Japanese cinema... has grown too large and the movies from 1970+ will be moved to this post.

• pachinko in Japanese cinema part 1: before 1970
• pachinko in Japanese cinema part 2: 1970+
• pachinko in foreign cinema...

The master list of movies will be maintained in Part 1.  If you are arriving at this post, please begin at part 1.  :)

scan: schematics for 1976 Attack - アタック by タイトー (Taito)

This is another scan provided by John of John's Jukes and Flippers.com.

flyer from https://www.flyerfever.com/

Files included:

• English manual with schematic
• ATN00001 PC board
• ATN00002 sound amp
• ATN00003
• ATN00004 power supply
• ATR00001 main PCB
• ATR00002 main PCB
• Tv Monitor schematic

Download all of these PDFs at Internet Archive.

example: ATR00002 main PCB (resized)

example: ATN00002 sound amp (resized)

scans: 3 flyers from Japan

We purchased and scanned 3 more flyers from Japan.  Click on the name under each to go to the Internet Archive to download

The first 2 are basic early-70s medal games.  

1976 Pegasus - ホワイトペガサス (White Pegasus) by 日本物産 (Nihon Bussan — Nichibutsu)

I think Super Boy is just another fly-by-night bootleg machine that was used for illegal gambling.  It uses the same kind of backglass as a number of other "XXXXX Boy" machines, but with the logo removed and a "Game Over" light put in the bottom right.

Super Boy flyer

The Nippon Vending one is fairly generic, but we bought it because of the smaller flyer attached to it.  If you zoom in it reveals that the photographs are actually from the USA. "US     Open Slingshot Tourney" is on the sign, and it says it was shown on NHK TV.  Perhaps a very short-lived fad, if it was ever even sold within Japan.

Nippon Vending flyers

Nippon Vending flyers - sling shot bonus flyer

scans: Coin Journal 1996-05 & 1997-01 and Amusement Journal 2011-01 & 2011-02

Coin Journal コイン ジャーナル 1996-05

Coin Journal コイン ジャーナル 1997-01

Amusement Journal 月刊アミューズメント・ ジャーナル 2011-01

Amusement Journal 月刊アミューズメント・ ジャーナル 2011-02

scans: more auction catalogues

part 2 of 2, continuing from the last batch of catalogue scans.

Sotheby's The Smith Collection of Penny Arcade Machines and Related Memorabilia Auction Catalogue (September 16-17, 1994)

Christie's South Kensington Mechanical Music and Amusement Machines Auction Catalogue (November 29, 2001)

This is 2002 calendar can be reused in 2030...

Coin Operated Collectors Association 2002 Wall Calendar

and a few photocopy catalogues under the cut...

1948 Pachinko Photographs

I was able to purchase this wire-service press photo from coinop historian Larry Bieza.

1948-12-06 photograph by Richard C. Ferguson - Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

Download high-res TIF scans of these photos at Archive.org

1948 pachinko photograph - backside

This photo was printed in numerous papers, with slight variations in the article.

1948-12-15 Chillicothe Gazette, Ohio, USA

This photo is from the same series of photographs: A child is receiving their prize.  Thank you Harold for the scan.

1948-12-06 photograph by Richard C. Ferguson - Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

back of photograph

The machines shown are of the bara-kugi style, with mostly-uniform grids of nails, but otherwise were quite similar to the single-shot pachinko machines common in the 1950s and 1960s.

Sugiyama-san says the nameplate here read 鈴富商店 (Suzutomi Shoten).

鈴富商店 (Suzutomi Shoten)

scans: auction catalogues

With the Costa-Haskell (1997) catalogue already posted, here are 11 more auction catalogues.  A few more coming eventually, too.  Click on each name to go to Archive.Org to download the PDFs and/or CBZ files. (the original scans are in the CBZ, so get that if you want the highest resolution, then rename the file to .ZIP and unzip it)

Auction of Vintage & Classic Amusements and Fairground Relics Catalogue (Salisbury Auction Center, May 2005) (600DPI)

Mr Roy Shaw's Private Museum of Bygones Catalogue (May 16, 1995) (600DPI)

Auktion Lutz Eppard Münzautomaten 1890-1960 Catalogue (19.10.1991) (600DPI)

Bonhams Chelsea Entertainment Sale Catalogue (August 1992) (600DPI)

Christie's South Kensington Mechanical Music, Technical Apparatus, Advertising and Amusement Machines (April 12, 2001) (600DPI)

Mead Publishing Company Catalog Number 9 (November 1995) (600DPI)

Arcadia 87 Illustrated Auction Catalogue (October 18, 1987) (600DPI)

Bonhams Mechanical Music, Railwayana, Cameras, Magic Lanterns and Optical Toys Auction Catalogue (April 8, 2003) (600DPI)

Historische Münz-Automaten Auktion Catalogue (31.10.92) (600DPI)

Annual International Auction at Knebworth House, Knebworth, Herts Catalogue (August 9th, 1992) (600DPI)

Goldsmith Roberts Annual International Auction Catalogue (May 16, 1993) (600DPI)