Thursday, December 14, 2023

exploring the arcade in... まむしの兄弟 懲役十三回 (1972) aka Mamushi no kyôdai: Chôeki jûsankai (The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13)

Small scene in this movie that I found thanks to TOO_yoshikawa...

まむしの兄弟 懲役十三回 (1972)




1966 Periscope - ペリスコープ by 中村製作所 (Nakamura Seisakusho)


another shot, this shows the side of the machine



Next machine...



UNKNOWN MACHINE: this machine looks familiar, but is actually not one I have seen before.

another glimpse

At first glance it looks like
~1969 Homerun! - ホームランゲーム by 日本展望娯楽社 (Japan Outlook Entertainment Company)
The space above the window is all wrong, and the machine in the movie has a top section that leans backwards.

There are actually very few horizontal machines with a window with rounded corners like that. Another that's similar, but not a match:
~1969 WSS Ball - ダブルツーエスボール by 玉福産業 (Tamafuku Sangyo)

(Both of the above machines probably came out before 1969, I just haven't found an earlier reference)
And the only other machine I know with a similarly rounded-corner window:
1969 ハッピーボール (Happy Ball) by クラウン (Crown)

This game will get added to my current list of spotted-yet-unknown machines.





This looks like Sankyo's Kickboxing, but at the same time it looks SLIGHTLY different.  Yellow and blue-ish marquee?  Perhaps a slightly different position, and rendering, of the kickboxer on the cabinet?

1972 キックボクシング (Kick Boxing) by 三共 (Sankyo)



extra machine on the far right of this frame.

another mystery!  The white line at the bottom of the machine, and everything beneath it, is part of a fire truck ride in the foreground.  

we can assuredly say it has a sloped front, no upper marquee, and the sliver of the side we can see is dark.



This cabinet is next to the Kickboxing one so we can see the difference in the angle of the glass.  There are only a handful of machine I know of that would fit those dimensions, while also not have a marquee that extends past the top metal/white strip...  

~1967 ねずみ退治 (exterminate mice) by 三共 (Sankyo)

1970 ミニボクシング (mini boxing) by 三共 (Sankyo)
I think this is probably the machine, but there is no way of knowing for sure.

~1969 ジャンパー (jumper) by 三共 (Sankyo)



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