After years of searching I finally acquired a copy of Rinchi from 1949! It is remarkable to have any footage of a Japanese arcade in the 1940s.
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| first shot shows the arcade in the background |
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| pachinko machines on the left, and on the right appears to be 3 flipperless pinball machines. There are not any details I can use to discern which games they are, but here is a list of flipperless pinball machines from Japan. |
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| cork shooting gallery! |
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| The targets machine rotates, like a loom or a thresher. |
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| loading the gun part 1: she uses the floor to push something into the gun |
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| 2: then she uses the tabletop to push a cork into it |
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| 3: she fires |
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