Saturday, September 19, 2026

Videos part 24

Prior video posts: 123, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. Most files edited by tweakbod. 

some screenshots...








In this batch we have...

1935 - 丹下左膳余話 百萬両の壺 (Tange Sazen yowa Hyakuman ryo no tsubo aka Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo) shooting gallery scene
1936 - La belle équipe crane machine scene
1946 - Whistle Stop carnival scene
1956 - ドラムと恋と夢 (Drum to koi to yume aka Drumbeat) amusement park scene
1956 - 狂った果実 (Kurutta kajitsu aka Crazed Fruit) shooting gallery scene
1961 - My Three Sons S01E16 Bub Leaves Home pinball scenes
1961 - 暗黒街の弾痕 (Ankokugai no dankon aka Blueprint of Murder) baseball machine scene
1963 - 午前零時の出獄 (Gozen reji no shutsugoku) arcade scene
1964 - Hot Enough for June shooting gallery scene
1965 - The Knack....And How To Get It coin-op scene
1966 - ウルトラマン (Ultraman) S01E10 謎の恐竜基地 arcade scene
1967 - Le Samouraï pinball scene
1968 - The Invaders S02E23 The Miracle pinball scenes
1970 - Cool It Carol slot machine scenes
1970s - Vicks Formula 44 commercial with Milton Berle arcade scene
1971 - La casa de los Martinez arcade scenes
1971 - Trafic pinball scene
1971 - ワンパク番外地 (Wanpaku Bangaichi) 第1話 ワンパク勢揃いの巻 arcade scene
1972 - Britain’s Most Clever Slot Machine Cheat Caught [e1N2a0JDnNU] arcade footage
1972 - 銀蝶流れ者 牝猫博奕 (Gincho nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi aka Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2 She-Cat Gambler) arcade scenes
1972 - 鴨川シーワールド (Kamogawa Sea World) arcade scene
1973 - Milano trema; la polizia vuole giustizia pinball scene
1973 - Revolver pinball scenes
1974 - Juggernaut arcade scenes
1975 - スプーン一杯の幸せ (Spoon Ippai no Shiawase aka Spoonful of Happiness) arcade scenes
1976 - Laverne & Shirley S01E01 The Society Party arcade scene
1976 - Laverne & Shirley S01E06 Dog Day Blind Dates arcade scene
1977 - Die Vorstadtkrokodile pinball scene
1978 - Laverne & Shirley S03E18 Bus Stop arcade scene
1978 - Stunt Rock arcade scene
1978 - スパイダーマン (Supaidāman) ep 13 ドクロ団対悪魔の霊柩車 arcade scene
1979 - Elvis arcade scene
1979 - Okinawa Archive; インベーダーゲーム大流行(1979年&1981年) (The Space Invaders craze 1979 & 1981) [tpdYzpR3TJM] arcade footage
1979 - ザ・スーパーガール (The Super Girl) episode 21; 通り魔パニック 真夜中の恐怖 pinball scene
1980 - BBC Archive; Coin-Ops Through The Ages [DioII4edvp8] arcade footage
1980 - The Chain Reaction pinball scenes
1981 - Four Friends pinball scene
1981 - Gas arcade scene
1981 - Publicidad de Sacoa commercial [DVFK3lqXt7Y] arcade scenes
1982 - Grease 2 pinball scene
1982 - The Verdict pinball scenes
1982 - Tootsie bar scene
1983 - One Summer S01E05 arcade scene
1984 - World's Famous Supreme Team – Hey! DJ arcade scene
1986 - Mona Lisa arcade scene
1988 - Kung-Fu Master arcade scenes
1988 - 人間合格 (Ningen gôkaku aka License to Live) arcade scenes
1990 - Inside an Arcade in New York City in 1990 [RV dVVmM6F8] arcade footage
1991 - The Doctor pinball scene
1996 - Mars Attacks! arcade scene
2001 - A Beautiful Mind pinball scene
2016 - Black Mirror S03E04 San Junipero arcade scenes
2019 - Black Mirror S05E01 Striking Vipers pinball scene 

 

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Please read: Parents of Trans Kids Slam Mount Sinai for Permanently Ending Trans Youth Care by Shireen Akram-Boshar 

Please read: EEOC agrees to let Christian employers misgender trans employees by Alex Bollinger

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Shorpy pics

Shorpy is a wonderful site if you like browsing wonderful old photos at good resolutions.  Here are some photos that tweakbod shared on the Gaming Alexandria server.



1899 Toledo, Ohio. Produce Exchange
Mutoscope!


1905 - Rockaway, New York, circa 1905. The Bowery looking east - 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co
shooting galleries on either side of the street 


1906 - Salem, Massachusetts, Town House Square at Washington and Essex Streets
penny scale 


1910 Utica, New York - United Commercial Travelers of America building
2nd floor shooting gallery

1913 Arcade building, Washington
for the "when did the contemporary game center meaning of arcade first emerge?" research

1922 Washington, D.C. Coin-operated radio in barbershop

1940-02 Truck driver in diner. Clinton, Indiana
1-ball horse race gambling pin


1941 Penny Arcade Kids - Rolling Green Park, located between Selinsgrove and Sunbury, PA

1943-03 Sam Bens and Noah Booher, drivers for Associated Transport Company, having dinner with a textile mill truck driver at a highway stop along U.S. Route 11 near Wytheville, Virginia
another 1-ball gambling machine

1944-06-07 Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco
Note the gambling pinball machines from Mills at the back: One-Two-Three and Spinning Reels, and a Ray's Tracks or similar derby horserace game.

1950s (late 50s) arcade in Upper Dauphin County, PA

1954 Phenix City, Alabama -- Russell County building and pinball machines
zoom in.

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

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked gestapo and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. The world witnessed ICE execute a mother and a nurse and then lie about what we saw. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people. 

Please read: Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target by Jacob Ogles

Please read: ICE Treatment of Transgender Women Reversing Years-Long Practices by Beth Schwartzapfel


Thursday, September 10, 2026

Videos part 23

Prior video posts: 123, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. Most files edited by tweakbod. 

some screenshots...







In this batch we have...

1930 - Born Reckless scale scene
1933 - Gambling Ship slot machine scene
1937 - Take A Chance pinball scene
1939 - Arcade Varieties [ckqqGu-Z98M] arcade short
1946 - Black Angel pinball scene
1946 - Till The End Of Time coin-op scene
1947 - Easy to Get [VD in the Army] pinball scene
1948 - So You Want to Be a Gambler pinball and slot machine scenes
1950 - Woman On The Run amusement park scene
1957 - 5 Steps to Danger coin-op scene
1959 - Brenner S1E12 Thin Ice pinball episode
1961 - The Hustler arcade scenes
1965 - Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen arcade scene
1965 - Le gendarme à New York (aka The Troops in New York aka The Gendarme In New York) arcade scenes
1965 - Pierrot Le Fou pinball scene
1968 - A Dandy in Aspic photo booth scene
1971 - La Grande Java arcade scenes
1971 - Labatt's Blue Commercial [HM4iQkAI9rw] arcade scene
1973 - Godspell pinball scene
1974 - Montreal Main arcade scenes
1975 - Bronk S01E07 Short Fuse pinball scene
1975 - Supervixens pinball scene
1975 - トラック野郎 (Torakku yarô Goiken muyô aka Truck Guys) pinball scenes
1975 - トラック野郎 爆走一番星 (Torakku yarô Bakusô Ichibanboshi aka Trucker Yaro II The Wild Trucker) pinball scenes
1976 - Bronk S01E24 The Vigilante coin-op scenes
1976 - Kottan Ermittelt s01e01 Hartlgasse 16a coin-op scenes
1976 - トラック野郎 天下御免 (Torakku yarô tenka gomen aka Trucker Yaro IV Fully Licensed) arcade scenes
1976 - トラック野郎 望郷一番星 (Torakku yarô Bôkyô Ichibanboshi aka Trucker Yaro III Nostalgia for the First Star) coin-op scenes
1977 - Punk Rock pinball scenes [NSFW]
1977 - トラック野郎 度胸一番星 (Torakku yarô Dokyô ichiban hoshi aka Trucker Yaro V The courageous star) arcade scenes
1977 - トラック野郎 男一匹桃次郎 (Torakku yarô Otoko ippiki momojirô aka Trucker Yaro VI I am a Man of Honour) coin-op scenes
1978 - NBC Fun Machine Saturday Morning Bumper [VKRb6jxbQ7w] arcade short.mkv
1978 - トラック野郎 一番星北へ帰る (Torakku yarô Ichiban hoshi kita e kaeru aka Trucker Yaro VIII The Truck Rascals go to the North) coin-op scenes
1978 - トラック野郎 突撃一番星 (Torakku yarô Totsugeki ichiban hoshi aka Trucker Yaro VII Another Odyssey of Momojiro) vending machine scene
1979 - First Strike pinball scene
1979 - Kottan Ermittelt s02e03 Drohbriefe coin-op scenes
1979 - トラック野郎 熱風5000キロ (Torakku yarô Neppû 5000 kiro aka Trucker Yaro IX A 5000 Km Run) arcade scene
1980 - The Apple pinball scenes
1981 - Spaceport Employee Training Video pt 1 [QKBtQ6t9hbw] arcade footage
1981 - Spaceport Employee Training Video pt 2 [E-kjm87mQ3E] arcade footage
1983 - Kottan Ermittelt s05e03 Genie und Zufall coin-op scenes
1983 - Kottan Ermittelt s06e01 Mein Hobby Mord coin-op scenes
1983 - Kottan Ermittelt s06e03 Mabuse kehrt zurück coin-op scenes
1985 - Calamari Union arcade and pajatso scenes
1985 - Istanbul arcade scene
1985 - Malibu Express slot machine scenes
1987 - Spaceballs pinball scenes
1987 - Stakeout pinball scene
1997 - Mr. Show with Bob and David S03E04 Flat-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes photo booth scene
1998 - Another Day In Paradise pinball scene
2001 - Behind Enemy Lines arcade scene
2007 - 国道20号線 (Kokudo 20gosen aka Off Highway 20) pachislo scenes
2018 - 孤狼の血 (Korô no chi aka The Blood of Wolves) pachislo scene

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youtube:

Check out this incredible homebrew 1950s-style EM!


 

Genco Roly Poly: 


 

1957 Circus by Bally follows the amazing Balls-A-Poppin'


 

 

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

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked gestapo and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. The world witnessed ICE execute a mother and a nurse and then lie about what we saw. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people. 

Please read: HHS Issues False Report Linking Support For Gender Affirming Care With “Authoritarianism” And Violence by S. Baum

Please read: Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target by Jacob Ogles

Please read: ‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report by Melody Schreiber

Please read:  Two women get life in prison for brutally torturing transgender man to death by Jacob Ogles


Saturday, September 5, 2026

scans: 14 Japanese eremeka flyers, 1979-2013

Here is another batch of Japanese eremeka flyers I purchased.  ty to Joey for scanning them. A big range of years here.  The 1979 Caribbean Pirates is the obviously priziest of them all, but also of note is the super rare 電流イライラ棒 バベル (Electric Frustrating Stick Babel) which is a machine that made it to the amusement expo but I do not think it entered full production. (the flyer has an illustration, but we have seen a photo from the 1997 show)


1979 Caribbean Pirates - カリブの海賊 by 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki — Kasco)

~1980 Rotary-King - ロータリーキング by ホーザン (Hozan)

1986 The Derby mark III C7 - ザ・ダービー マーク スリー C7 by シグマ (Sigma)

1986 デジタルフィーバー (Digital Fever) by ユニバーサル (Universal) & 宝娯楽 (Takara Goraku)

1988 Roulette [C-12] by シグマ (Sigma)

1997 パックンUFO (pakkun UFO) by 眞砂工業 (Masago Kogyo — Kidz Factory)

1997 電流イライラ棒 バベル (Electric Frustrating Stick Babel) by エス・エヌ・ケイ (SNK)

2003 お祈り大明神 祭 (Inori Daimyojin Festival) by セガ (Sega)

2004 Dragon Treasure II - ドラゴントレジャー2 by セガ (Sega)

2004 Fantastic Fever 2 - ファンタジックフィーバー2 by コナミ工 (Konami)

2004 Wing Fantasia - ウィングファンタジア by コナミ工 (Konami)

2005 メダルの達人 ドキッ!大当たりだらけのすごろく祭り (Medal Master Doki! Sugoroku Festival full of big hits) by ナムコ (Namco)

2007 Alien Danger - エイリアン デンジャー by カプコン (Capcom)

2013 Horuka x Toruka - ホルカ×トルカ by セガ (Sega)

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

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked gestapo and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. The world witnessed ICE execute a mother and a nurse and then lie about what we saw. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people. 


excerpt from the 1839 Swedish book Hand-bibliothek för sällskapsnöjen

The following tidbits of pinball ancestry were shared with me by user PaulKersey on the Gaming Alexandria Discord.


Booklet series name : Hand-bibliothek för sällskapsnöjen : eller systematiskt ordnande spel, lekar och konster
Edited by G. J. Billberg
Publisher : Stockholm : L. J. Hjerta, 1838-1839 

1839 Hand-bibliothek för sällskapsnöjen pages 86+87

1839 Hand-bibliothek för sällskapsnöjen p88
 

Transcription via Paul:

FORTUNA.

För detta spel erfordras ett vertikalt jemnt stående bord (a), som är rundadt i öfra ändan, i hvilken rundel är utmärkt plats för 9 käglor, deraf de 3 medlersta stå midt emellan båda sidorna (b). Omkring de 3 sidorna och hälften af nedra ändan löper en ränna för klotets lopp. Denna är betäckt från halfva långsidan till höger (c); äfvensom nedra ändan (dd) är betäckt, deraf likväl locket (dcee) är gångbart, till förvarande af käglor och klot. Början af rännan från (e) till (d) är långslut, och vid (d) har klotet sin vanliga plats, hvarifrån det utstötes med en kort mas (f), sådan som i Billard, men af rännans bredd. 

Spelsättet.
Spelarne kunna vara så många som hälst, och beräkningen sker såsom i vanligt kägelspel. Klotet stötes från (g); men om det ej hinner (c), omstötes. I öfrigt räknas bom, såsom i vanligt kägelspel.

 

Machine translation:

FORTUNA.

For this game a vertical, even table (a) is required, which is rounded at the upper end, in which round is a place for 9 skittles, of which the 3 middle ones stand midway between both sides (b). Around the 3 sides and half of the lower end runs a chute for the ball to run. This is covered from half the long side to the right (c); although the lower end (dd) is covered, the lid (dcee) is still operable, for the storage of skittles and balls. The beginning of the chute from (e) to (d) is the long end, and at (d) the ball has its usual place, from which it is ejected with a short mass (f), such as in Billiards, but of the width of the chute.

Method of play.

The players can be as many as desired, and the calculation is made as in ordinary skittles. The ball is ejected from (g); but if it does not have time (c), it is overturned. Otherwise, a miss is counted, as in ordinary skittles.

 

This game of fortuna is similar to 'naco' bowling tables. For me this highlights how the game names really shifted between countries and decades, so I am grateful for the diagram and description.

 

Another tidbit, this from a 1795 Swedish newspaper:


I was told Fortuna-spelet med des tillbehör = “The Fortuna game with its equipment.” so we do not know for sure what time of table this was, but it shows that Fortuna was a name used for tables like this going back to the 18th century. 

 

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The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked gestapo and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. The world witnessed ICE execute a mother and a nurse and then lie about what we saw. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people.


scans: Sega fruit machine Japanese flyer scans

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.

1997 Around the World in 80 Days - アラウンド ザ ワールド イン 80デイズ [import, 1997] by JPM & セガ (Sega)

1997 Planet Tours - プラネットツアーズ [import, 1997] by JPM & セガ (Sega)

1998 Big Trader - ビックトレーダー [import, 1998] by JPM & セガ (Sega)
1998 A to D Analog to Digital - アナログ・トゥ・デジタル [import, 1998] by JPM & セガ (Sega)

1998 Penguin's Fishing - ペンギンフィッシング [import, 1998] by JPM & セガ (Sega)

1998 Soccer Crazy - サッカークレイジー [import, 1998] by JPM & セガ (Sega)

 

 

 

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

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked gestapo and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. The world witnessed ICE execute a mother and a nurse and then lie about what we saw. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people. 

Please read: Parents of transgender kids say California is ‘unprepared’ as feds cut off their healthcare by Kristen Hwang