so I bought a pinball machine

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Pinball Expo 2000 seminars

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. The videos were all digitized, and now the audio tapes are too.

Pinball Expo 2000 lectures cassette tape set
Chicago, Illinois
October 19-22, 2000

Illinois Pinball Company with Gene Cunningham

Germany Conversions From Geiger by Heri Elden
Steve Kordek an Informal Chat

Repro Plastics & Decals Made Easy with Roc Agwral

My Design Experience with John Trudeau

Displaying Your Backglass / Translite with Mark Bakula

Gary Stern

Pinball Art 101 with Keith Egging & Rob Hayes

Repairing Data East Sega Games with Clay Harrell & Rob Hayes

This Old Pinball with Shaggy & Baffo/Norm

Debunking Old Pinball Myths with Tim Arnold

Fireside Chat 2000 with Greg Kmiec

12 tape set
digitized by Nateo87
Audio has been normalized, and the audio speeding up at the very end of the final lecture was like that on the tape.

Pinball Expo 2000 seminars - case cover art

Download and/or listen to the Pinball Expo 2000 seminars at The Internet Archive.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

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

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-focused version of Mechanical Memories Magazine.

41 issues of C.O.C.A. Times have been uploaded to the internet archive.

This is not a complete run, and the uploads end around 2014. Generally, people don't like to upload ephemera to IA if less than a decade old.

first issue: COCA Times March 2001

COCA Times November 2014

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Exploring the arcade in these Yokohama Station gun corner photographs

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 of the web page:

kanaloco.jp screenshot

These are wonderful photographs, and I wish we had many more from this era. Let's see how many of these machines can be identified! Begin by looking at these two pictures and ask yourself how many games you can recognize.

We will proceed from the right (near us) to the left (further away), and utilizing details from both pictures.

To the right of the counter we can see a portion of one machine:

1959 Bingolett by Günter Wulff, Berlin (archive)

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

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 location is similar to the gun corner in ギャング対ギャング (1962) but the outer geometry of the spaces do not align.

ギャング対Ｇメン　集団金庫破り (1963)

This is gameplay from the legendary Shoot The Bear game.

1947 Shoot The Bear by Seeburg
aka Bear Gun

who doesn't love a good pan along the length of a gun?

we'll be talking more about that Shooting Gallery soon

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

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 wonderful gun corner footage.

This movie came out in November 1962. Many of the games in this arcade data from the prior two years. This was a very modern arcade for the time.