Friday, October 25, 2024

Hot-Shot, Discotelle, Marbelous: obscure 1930s games

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Of all the companies listed in IPDB about half of them are from the 1930s. (credit to Michael Minchew for pointing that out.)  This was a ti...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Pinball Expo 2024: prewar booth and more

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I spent the last weekend in Chicago, USA, For the 40th anniversary of pinball expo.  Pinball Expo 8am Wednesday morning I was there to help ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Pinball Expo 2000 seminars

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Back at COAPF in June I was given a stack of tapes.  I had mentioned the archiving projects to a vendor and he ended up donating them all. ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

scans: C.O.C.A. Times magazines

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The C.O.C.A. (Coin Operated Collector Association) Times is a collector's magazine for fans of old-timey coinop.  It is like a USA-focus...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Exploring the arcade in these Yokohama Station gun corner photographs

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These photographs were posted at  kanaloco.jp and I wish I had archived the page  back when it wasn't locked. I did save a screenshot o...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

exploring the arcade in ギャング対Ｇメン　集団金庫破り (1963) / Gang tai G-men: Shudan kinko yaburi aka Gangster vs. G-Men: Group Safecracking

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This movie shows us another wonderful gun corner , a style of arcade that was popular in Japan in the early 1960s. The design of the locatio...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

exploring the arcade in ギャング対ギャング (1962) / Gyangu tai G-men aka Gang vs. G-Men

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I want to find more footage of Japan's Gun Corners from the early 1960s.  This movie and the next one I am going to post both have wonde...
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