scans of new purchases: Canadian Coin Box 1983-07, Marketplace 1974-06-30, 1988 game center manga, Amusement Japan 2007-01

Here are scans of a few recently acquired items.  The Canadian Coin Box I purchased back at Ontario Pinfest, and I got the Marketplace issues there as well.  Thank you to the vendor who set it aside for me! Thank you to Detchibe and ftb1979 for scanning these.

Canadian Coin Box 1983-07

 Lot of juicy stuff in this issue!  Highly recommended.  Some pages:

 

 

 Marketplace 1974-06-30

 

Likewise, this Marketplace issue is wonderful and has a whole section of prewar pins.

 

This next one is a bit of an oddball: It's a guide on how to run a medal gaming parlor, done up as a manga.  Released in 1988, I wanted to share this to help researchers get an idea of how medal game centers were managed back then.

接客大繁盛：まんが・ゲーム場管理者のためのサービス・マニュアル 五十章 [Customer Service is Booming: Manga Service Manual for Game Centre Managers, 50 Chapters] (600DPI)

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I think I was involved in purchasing this one.  It's a pachinko industry magazine and so very dry, but it does have a section with pictures of all of the latest pachinko and pachislot machines.

Amusement Japan [月刊アミューズメントジャパン] Vol. 10 No. 100 (January 2007) (600DPI)

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