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

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