Another wonderful batch of magazines! Most of these were magazines I purchased alongside Detchibe and others at Gaming Alexandria. The Computopia however was funded by a generous person I met at Pinball Expo last year. Scanning done by Detchibe.
It's been a while since we've had a fresh Play Meter scan so I will share that here as well. Hubz has been scanning the Play Meters and while I did not fund most of them, I think I donated a stack of them.
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You can find the five prior video posts here: space 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Part five also has another large file of movie and TV clips to download.
I am happy to serve up another large archive of video clips gathered by tweakbod. This file is 3 GB. Clips included:
1949 - Caught pinball scene 1968 - Star Trek S2.E17 - A Piece of the Action pinball scene 1971 - Going Home arcade scene 1973 - American Graffiti pinball scene 1973 - Heavy Traffic arcade scene 1973 - Les confidences erotiques dun lit trop accueillant - pinball scene NSFW 1973 - Soylent Green Computer Space Scenes 1973 - The Last Detail arcade scene 1974 - Juggernaut pong 1975 - Hustling (TV movie) arcade scene 1975 - Jaws arcade scene 1976 - Adventures of A Taxi Driver arcade 1976 - La Orca pinball repair scene 1977 - Airport '77 pong doubles scene 1977 - Looking for Mr Goodbar bar scenes 1977 - Semi-Tough pinball scene 1977 - The Pyjama Girl Case arcade scene 1978 - Blue Nude arcade scenes 1978 - Columbo S7.E5 ∙ The Conspirators pinball scenes 1978 - Jaws 2 arcade 1978 - The Incredible Hulk S1.E6 - Terror in Times Square arcade scenes 1978 - Wonder Woman S3.E8 ∙ Skateboard Wiz arcade scenes 1979 - Skatetown USA arcade scene 1980 - Midnight Madness arcade scene 1981 - Bustin' Loose arcade 1982 - 38 Special - Caught Up In You (Official Music Video) exploding gorf 1982 - Jekyll and Hyde Together Again arcade scene 1982 - Making Love arcade scene 1982 - Rocky III arcade scene 1983 - Strange Brew arcade scene 1984 - A-Team arcade game 1984 - Night of the Comet arcade scene 1984 - The Philadelphia Experiment arcade scene 1986 - Chopping Mall arcade scene 1986 - Maximum Overdrive arcade scene 1987 - Cant Buy Me Love arcade scenes 1989 - Back to the Future Part II arcade scene 1991 - Scanners II The New Order arcade scene 1991 - Suburban Commando arcade scene 1996 - First Kid virtuality 1998 - The Replacement Killers arcade scene 2003 - Bad Santa pinball scene 2003 - Lost In Translation arcade scene 2021 - The Laws of the Border arcade scenes
On the YouTube video front, here is a great compilation of the Learn To Flip videos by Erin Winwick Anthony that takes us through her journey of learning competitive pinball. This is a highly recommended video to send anyone who is at all interested in playing in pinball competitions!
Famous retro arcade in Japan 台場一丁目商店街プレイランド (Daiba 1-chome Shopping Arcade Playland) closed down. Onitama-san gifts us one last look at this marvelous arcade. This was one of the very few public places you could have played Sega's Moto Polo.
Here Onitama-san takes us through Takahashi's wonderful pinball collection in Japan, featuring a great woodrail line up and many other electromechanical games. Interesting to note that it's all American machines here, and I don't see a single Japanese machine.
Clay is back with videos of four machines that I am quite fond of. 1947 Heavy Hitter by Bally (countertop pitch-n-bat) 1956 Lucky Seven by Genco (roll down) 1955 Derby Roll by United (roll down) 1972 Golf Champ by Midway (wall game)
I know there are a number of impressively ridiculous collectors out there. People who have built massive collections that might seem unwieldy to people outside the hobby. Within that group there is a subset of collections that might not be appreciated fully unless you too are deeply nerdy about electromechanical arcade machines. But when you are in with that sickness, the depth and refinement of such collections make you a bit weak at the knees! Within that group, there are a bunch who have also put in a ridiculous amount of time and effort to share their skills and knowledge and passion with the public. Clay is one of those people. Steve Young, Rob Berk, Tim Arnold, Larry Bieza. Many more. And Kevin Keinert is in that group too. (I would also put like Mike Hasanov and Jay Stafford in that group of people who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to share information and build the hobby, but I don't actually know what their collections are like... perhaps beginning with framing this as people with impressive collections doesn't quite get to the point I was going for?... nevertheless!)
Here Kevin takes us inside 1920s shocker games:
These two videos are currently 15 & 13 years old, but I only recently was alerted to their presence. To extremely rare/obscure machines.
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Overview and gameplay of Hawaiian beauty by Gottlieb:
And finally a video from Italy, courtesy Federico Croci, with lots of pinball and arcade footage.
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I am ecstatic to be able to share this new catalogue with you all. This is the 1987 coin machine directory that I purchased recently with the help of Detchibe and others at Gaming Alexandria. this scan was done by Detchibe.
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A huge pack of schematics from Japanese monitors. The GMM-8 and GMM-20 also had copies labeled Taito, so I assume they were used in Taito games. Thank you to John at Flippers.com for the scans.
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Recently we purchased a fairly large lot of Amusement Journal issues from 2007 to 2009. These are being scanned by Detchibe who also played a significant part of the costs. I paid for a portion of them, and the rest was chipped in by a handful of donors and people on the Gaming Alexandria Discord. If you would like to support work like this, please consider making a donation to Detchibe towards further efforts.
This post is a smattering of those issues, 10 in total.
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I am delighted to present another batch of Coin Machine Review issues! batch This spans 1936-11 to 1938-03.
Some incredible articles, but the quality of the print advertisements is absolutely beautiful. highly recommended. Please share widely.
I really love all of the photograph covers here. What an amazing stylistic time capsule. The first issue here is missing the cover. If you have this magazine, please scan your copy or at least scan the covers pages for me? thetastates@gmail.com
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orders are a decree to destroy all traces of trans existence from
society, and that all trans people are subhuman threats and liars who
should not be allowed to exist publicly. This is nazi-style cultural
genocide and everyone needs to do what they can to stop it. He is
attacking children, he is attacking families, and he is delighting in
his sadism.
It is very hard to continue working on hobby shit in
the face of the extreme Christofascist horrors being inflicted upon
millions. This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are
terrified by a president who has declared them to be threats, a danger
to themselves and others that must be eliminated.
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中村製作所 (Nakamura Seisakusho) would later become Namco, and for a period they distributed games made by こまや (Komaya). These two flyers appear to be from around 1970.
1969 Base Ball - ベースボール by こまや (Komaya) 1970 Ronin - 浪人 by こまや (Komaya) [presumed] 1970 Play Land - プレイランド by こまや (Komaya)
~1968 Let's Go Moon! - レッッゴームーン by こまや (Komaya) ~1967 Indy Game - インディゲーム by こまや (Komaya) 1965 クレイジー15ゲーム [クレイジーフィフティーンゲーム] [マークII] (Crazy 15 game [mark II]) by こまや (Komaya)
The games and the second flyer are older, so it might be from before 1970. But we have solid evidence that two of the games of the first flyer were released in 1970.
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