Monday, January 5, 2026

exploring the arcade in ドラムと恋と夢 (1956) aka Drum to koi to yume aka Drumbeat

It is always exciting to find any representation of Japanese arcades from before the 1960s!  Here we have a carnival with a ball toss game where you try and hit a classical oni, and a shooting gallery that including both a spinning platform and balloon shooting.

ドラムと恋と夢 (1956)

 
Rainbow Paradise


coinop horse rides


animated oni statue and ball toss game



遊技券一枚五発 (5 shots for 1 game ticket)

balloon targets tethered by string on the right, rotating target platform on the left



top, back we see a Pachinko sign

it is hard to see the pachinko machines, but they are there

 

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This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific attempts to eliminate trans people from society. Trans people have always existed, in every society, but the administration has embraced a moral panic, declared a war against reality, and says that trans people can no longer be allowed to exist. This includes making their healthcare illegal, censoring books and school curriculum from university level down to elementary school, banning trans people from bathrooms, and declaring trans existence to be child abuse.

This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked men and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people.
 

Please read: On Surviving Trans Genocide by Mady Castigan



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