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.
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| 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.
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1947 Shoot The Bear by Seeburg
aka Bear Gun |
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| who doesn't love a good pan along the length of a gun? |
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we'll be talking more about that Shooting Gallery soon
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| we never see what the man on the right is playing, but there is no cable attached to the gun, so it is probably just a prop and the actor is most likely just shooting at nothing. I do not think this is even a cork gun, as the cork gun we see later on has a metal bar for cocking the shot on the right-hand side and we would be able to see it on his gun during the movie. |
The game to the left of Bear Gun is another gun corner classic, Coon Hunt.
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| 1954 Coon Hunt by Seeburg |
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in this frame, the backglass for Bear Gun has been opened and swung out.
You can also clearly see the buildings outside. |
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| this row of machines is perpendicular to the painted window. |
The game most visible on the left appears to be a European gun game.
To the right of the German came we can see a smidge of a backglass, but not enough for me to identify it.
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| not enough info for me |
From a different angle, we can see the Bambi graphic on the cabinet.
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| in this scene, the Bambi game is no longer in the row perpendicular to the window, but is now at the back and facing the front window. |
The geography of this arcade gets even more confusing as this man steps away from the row with the Bambi game, and picks up what appears to be an untethered cork gun.
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| The silver handle on the side is for cocking the cork gun |
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| It looks like the Deluxe Shooting Gallery has been rotated for this shot! In other shots it is set up by the "GUN" on the window, facing the other direction. |
Pay attention to the window's cowboy drawing, and the text "GUN".
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| in the back we can see Midway's Shooting Gallery, but this version has different side paint than any other version I have seen. |
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| When we colour-correct the marquee image we see some mysterious text above the midway logo on the left. Perhaps this is a locally the modified version |
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| 1960 Shooting Gallery by Midway |
From this angle we can see stripe along the top of the machine.
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| this shot also seems to show pin tables in the background, but we never see them. |
A crop from a different scene, there is definitely some unknown text or sticker above the Midway logo.
This glimpse also shows us the front stripes of the Shooting Gallery do not match the model we are familiar with.
I am unable to find a match for the gun game on the left. The solid base with the rounded edges is very similar to some of the machines by Keeney or Exhibit Supply, but mostly those are games with large mounted guns you peer into. We cannot see how the the gun attaches to the machine. If the man in a trench coat is facing the machine, it feels as though the gun is mounted very deep and away from the player. Most gun games have the gun mounted immediately next to the player. Could this be a Japanese made gun game?
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| unknown gun game |
There are a few frames where someone else enters the seen and their hand is on another gun butt. But later the characters walk between these two gun ends.
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ミナトビリヤード (Minato Billiards)
only showing this because it's a cool sign |
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| very intense painted illustration |
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hey kid, what are you playing in the back there?
Also note the different paint on the Midway Shooting GAllery. |
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| ENHANCE! |
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| 1949 Silver Bullets by Exhibit Supply |
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| the vertical gold stripes on the Shooting Gallery also seems to be custom. |
The rest of the arcade scenes take place atop a department store rooftop. Many of the images I will share are here to help record the atmosphere of the entire rooftop amusement center.
I do not know when the Deluxe model of Stereo Talkie was actually released, but this movie marks 1963 as the earliest year so far that I have seen this model.
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| ステレオトーキーデラックス (stereo talkie deluxe) by 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki) |
There are a number of Mini Drive games lined up here. The first one is hard to see because the camera is moving quite quickly, causing the frame to blur.
Given the colours shown, I believe it is a blue version of the classic backglass style:
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| 1958 ミニドライブ M型 (Mini Drive M type) by 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki) |
The next two Mini Drive machines appear to have this alternate blue backglass:
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| 1958 ミニドライブ M型 (Mini Drive M type) [alternate backglass] by 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki) |
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