I purchased a bunch of Japanese arcade flyers and Joey/Detchibe has scanned them for me. This batch is UK fruit machines made by JPM that Sega imported into Japan in 1997 and 1998.
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Another recent purchase, this catalogue is from the 1930s. Jigsaw came out August 1933, so this catalogue is at the earliest late-1933 and most likely 1934.
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I purchased a small stack of ephemera from a nearby collector of allwin machines and while many of the documents will be heading over to Detchibe/Joey for scanning, I am keeping this and the next item for my collection and I scanned this on my flatbed.
This catalogue has all sorts of interesting historical tidbits (some definitely hearsay, some definitely proven untrue now) amongst the items listings. Even if they aren't all accurate, it is interesting to see the wisdom of the day written down. This is a source of the story that J&M wrote "Saxony" on their machines because it sounds less British.
Lots of interesting writeups in the center of the publication as well.
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You can find the six prior video posts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. You can find other large ZIP files of movie and TV clips to download in parts 5 & 6.
Here is another collection of clips prepared by tweakbod. 3.3 GB
1916 - Musty Suffer in Out Of Order coin-op scene 1927 - Casey At The Bat coin-op scene 1933 - The Women in His Life pinball scene 1941 - The Devil and Miss Jones pinball scene 1947 - It Always Rains on Sunday arcade scene 1961 - Eve and the Handyman bingo pinball scene 1961 - Mad Dog Coll coin-op scale scene 1969 - Joe Caligula Du suif chez les dabes pinball scene 1970 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls pinball scene 1973 - Badlands coin-op scene 1973 - Holiday on the Buses arcade scene 1973 - Naakt over de schutting arcade scenes 1973 - The Final Programme pinball scene 1973 - The Laughing Policeman pinball scenes 1974 - Hot Summer in Barefoot County pinball scenes 1974 - Julia arcade scene 1975 - Good Times S2.E15 pinball scene 1975 - Mahogany arcade scene 1976 - Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw pinball scene 1976 - The Streets of San Francisco S4.E20 Clown of Death arcade scene 1977 - Summer School arcade scene 1979 - Charlies Angels S4.E9 Angels on Skates pinball scenes 1979 - Hardcore arcade scene 1979 - The Man Who Stole the Sun arcade scenes 1979 - The Man Who Stole the Sun heist scene space invaders 1979 - The Warriors pinball scene 1979 - Vegas SE01 EP16 Best Friends arcade scene 1981 - Arthur Arcade & toupie hollandaise table scenes 1981 - Bustin Loose arcade scene 1981 - CHiPs S4.E19 Vigilante arcade scenes 1981 - The Loveless coin-op scene 1982 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High arcade scenes 1982 - Tron arcade scene 1983 - CHiPs S6.E13 High Times arcade scenes 1983 - Getting It On arcade scene 1983 - Never Say Never Again arcade scene 1983 - Nightmares arcade scenes 1984 - Police Academy pinball scene 1984 - Streetwise arcade scene 1984 - The Brother from Another Planet arcade scenes 1984 - The Karate Kid arcade scenes 1988 - Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama arcade scene 1989 - Next of Kin arcade scene 2010 - Tron Legacy arcade scene
Bill Heatherly shares a restoration of a Super 8 by Stoner
Gameplay of a World Series II wall game
Mike Hasanov takes us through an extremely rare and early Play Penny Polo that he has in for restoration
Restoration off a late 1940s/early 1950s pachinko machine with some great slow-motion video of the mechanisms!
Two videos of 1970s smart ball gameplay
1963 Arizona by Bergmann, this German gun game requires you to insert the BBs
The Hat Trick is one of the more interesting allwins since it allows the operator to swap the coloured cups to determine what the playfield will be like, and tightly control the possible odds.
Great little video on a huge penny scales collection
Pop-Up Criss Cross review I really like this auction preview, where he walks through everything for sale and gives them a try. Gameplay footage of a number of great obscure machines in here. The fascinating Moorman's Par Golf circa 1936 1932 Keen-Ball A great news piece from 1976: Clay takes us deep into Sea Hunt by Allied Leisure circa 1972
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There is an incredible auction of bagatelles coming up, one person's lifetime of collecting. Many incredible pieces, but also the comprehensiveness of the collection combined with the robust and exceptional photos provided by the auction house makes this one quite special.
We have collected all of the bagatelle photographs from this auction. For the bagatelle historians out there, I've made a single ZIP file with all of the lots I find interesting. There are 3 folders here: Redgrave/Singer tables, toy bagatelles, and one for other marble games of note.
Here is a solar system-themed corinthian bagatelle from Japan.
No confirmation on name / date / maker, but I assume it's 1930s because the Corinthian craze came to Japan in the early 1930s, and in 1939 Japan went to war and I assume made few toys. The text itself does not appear to be post-war.
Here are the pockets on the board and their translations:
10 太陽 Sun 20 上弦 First Quarter 30 下弦 Last Quarter 40 海王星 Neptune 50 天王星 Uranus 60 水星 Mercury 70 土星 Saturn 80 地球 Earth 90 木星 Jupiter 100 金星 Venus 110 火星 Mars 120 満月 Full Moon
Then there are TA and ST pockets at the bottom left and right sides. These are features you see on some other Corinthian boards, sometimes labeled and sometimes not.
So assuming the same rules, if you pocket TA you take all of the balls that went to the bottom without scoring and play them again. Do you also replay the ball that fell in TA? Perhaps not. What does TA mean? Try Again? Take All? I am unsure.
The ST pocket might be for STOP or Stop Turn? But it would mean the game ends, regardless of any balls left to shoot. A trap to avoid!
3) Sugiyama-san's UK bagatelle in Japan
I am happy to showcase this bagatelle game owned by Sugiyama-san of the Birth of Pachinko Musem. He purchased it on a trip to the UK and was told it was from 1890-1900 by the dealer.
It is fascinating to me because it copied many parts of the classic Redgrave design, but keeps the cue/mace shooter lane on the right and slaps in a spring plunger on the left.
While the means to propel the ball are unique from the Redgrave design, so is the upper area with 3 arched wires protecting the king ball divot. Also different is that the mid-playfield cups have a nail beneath them to ensure the ball falls into it. The bottom uses classic Cockamaroo-style vertical slots to award small points to balls that fail to score on the main playfield. Redgrave never used Cockamaroo-style bottom channels, typically opting for a series of cups with nails funneling the balls to them.
Kazuo Sugiyama showing off the backside of the bagatelle
I really like this style of game because it merges the classic cockamaroo designs with the then-contemporary Redgrave & Singer design ideas.
Looking through my archives, I found a photo of a similar table. The point values differ slightly.
the scores are slightly higher on this model, and it is longer with an extra bell & gate section
Redgrave bagatelle examples:
4) Le Basket Francais by Samud
This next one comes from a catalogue from a prestigious seller of rare papers and books.
I want to caution against purchasing this for the 3000 Euros being asked. Currently there is a copy on Ebay for 220 €. (archive)
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being enacted by the USA to remove trans people from society. Trans
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children should be abused at school, in their home, in public, and at
hospitals. Trump's orders are a decree to destroy all traces of trans
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and liars who should not be allowed to exist publicly. He is attacking
children, he is attacking families, and he is delighting in his sadism.
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Nic Costa is one of the premier researchers of coinop history. Similar to what Dick Bueschel achieved in the USA, Nic Costa pursued with the UK's (and world's) coinop history.
The archive is currently in version 1.1 but I hope for this to be an iterative process. Currently none of the files have useful names, but there is now a folder structure setup to help assist finding information. One purpose of the archive is to help inform the world of the materials within. For example, pages of negatives are scanned in, but the negatives themselves have not undergone preservationist scanning. Likewise, some of the materials found within are done with quick scans, not preservationist scans.
Since the research is centered around UK/Europe, countries outside of that range like USA and Japan often have their own folders. The sorting system I set up is still quite preliminary.
Here is the current folder structure:
flyers & photos & misc
allwin backflashes
flyers, ads, catalogues (UK, europe)
Japan
magazines, newspapers, articles
misc
paper, scraps, letters
Photographic Views Phototype Derbyshire
postcards
Samson Bolland Holloway (family interviewed late 1970s)
Stereoscopic and Mutoscope nudes
The Album of Folkestone
USA
index cards
Arcade Locations
Coin-op Articles
Companies - [A through Z]
Companies French
Companies German
Companies US - [A through I -- more sorting needed]
To begin, I want to give examples of the last 2 main folders, so we are going in a somewhat reverse order.
The "photo slides & negatives" folder contains scans like this:
The "index cards" folder is a database in paper format. This is a wonderful glimpse in to how research would be conducted before the days of affordable and readily accessible computers.
Companies - C Caille Brothers
Machine Types Strength
Machines - M Miniature Cricket
People - W Whales, Oliver
There are many wonderful bits of ephemera to be discovered in "flyers & photos & misc". Within there are a handful of subfolders, and let's just glance at a few of the things we find:
