Thursday, August 7, 2025

scans: Coin Machine Review 1947

 8 issues of Coin Machine Review from 1947

Coin Machine Review 1947-01

 
Coin Machine Review 1947-02

Coin Machine Review 1947-03

Coin Machine Review 1947-04

Coin Machine Review 1947-07

Coin Machine Review 1947-09

Coin Machine Review 1947-10

Coin Machine Review 1947-12


1947 was quite the year! Some highlights:

















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This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Videos part 12

another batch is up! Prior video posts: 123, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. Clips were trimmed by tweakbod.

In this batch:

1934 - Whirlpool bunco carnival games scenes
1935 - Little Big Shot arcade scenes
1940s - Luzon [silent, r0WS2e9Y9jA] shooting gallery scene
1946 - Crime Doctor's Man Hunt shooting gallery scene
1950s - Coney Island U S A [1KvrEYd5aF0] Mutoscope & other arcades scene
1950s - Coney Island U S A [1KvrEYd5aF0] shooting gallery scene
1955 - Du rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) pinball & foosball scenes
1956 - 23 Paces to Baker Street pinball scenes
1956 - 暗黒街 (Ankokugai aka The Underworld) baseball machine scene
1961 - Mina... Fuori la Guardia pinball scene
1963 - L'aîné des Ferchaux (Magnet Of Doom) pinball scenes
1963 - Tokyo Landscapes 1962-1964 [n3GtSeEOSZA] arcade scene
1965 - How to Stuff a Wild Bikini billiard hall scenes
1966 - 黒い賭博師 悪魔の左手 (Kuroi Tobakushi Akuma no Hidarite aka The Black Gambler; Devil's Left Hand) pinball scene
1967 - Mannix S01E05 Make It Like It Never Happened arcade scene
1967 - Smashing Time pinball & slot machine scene
1969 - Z pinball scene
1971 - Two-Lane Blacktop pinball scene
1971 - Welcome Home Soldier Boys pinball & shuffleboard scenes
1971~ - 特別機動捜査隊 (Special Mobile Investigation Unit) pachinko & arcade scenes
1972 - Adam-12 S04E16 The Tip pinball scene
1972 - Death Line (aka Raw Meat) pinball scene
1973 - Badlands recording booth scene
1973 - The Last American Hero Record Your Voice scene
1973 - The Naughty Stewardesses slot machine scene
1974 - Madhouse pinball scene
1975 - Aaron Loves Angela arcade scene
1975 - Crazy Mama slot machine scene
1975 - Death Brings Roses coin-op scene
1975 - Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) Rotamint Scene
1975 - Las adolescentes (The Adolescents) arcade scene
1975 - Smile pinball scene
1975 - White Line Fever slot machine scene
1977 - 小さなスーパーマン ガンバロン 第27話 見たぞ!デスクがロボットに (Small Superman Ganbaron episode 27) arcade scene
1978 - Odds and Evens pinball scene
1979 - raw footage from Tokyo videogame arcades 1979-06
1979 - Tilt pinball scenes
1980 - The Stunt Man pinball scene
1980 - Xanadu pinball sequence
1984 - The Master S01E01 Max arcade scene
1985 - Tomboy pachinko & coin-op scenes
1988 - Big arcade scenes
1991 - Terminator 2 Judgment Day arcade scene
1998 - Physical Pinball pinball scene
2020 - マザー (Mother) arcade scene 

Download this ZIP file (3.3 GB)


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This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked men and shipping them off to notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own citizens.

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a post-war Carombolette table? Red-Ball by Hirsh Coin Machine Corp (1946)

Stumbled on this while browsing Coin Machine Review issues from 1946 and want to save it for any ongoing carombolette research.

  • 33.5" wide x 8;7" long 
  • They claim the game takes 1 min 25 seconds
  • They say they "discovered" Red Ball just before the war, but I assure you these tables were many decades old by this time. 
  • There is a ball return at the front, which most carombolette tables do not have.  If the balls are being released to the front, then there must be holes at the bagatelle back-end.  I wish we could see a photograph of the bagatelle playfield.
  • There is a  unit attached to the end which I assume is a coin unit, but also might count score.  I am unable to discern, and there is no text the refers to its operation. 


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This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked men and shipping them off to notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own citizens.

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Monday, August 4, 2025

Scan: The Billboard 1931-12-19

At Ontario Pinfest I was gifted a box of old billboard magazines, from Mike Hanley of Church of the silver ball. They were fairly brittle and quite large, making them a formidable challenge, but a preservationist friend was able to take on this challenge and here is the first issue of that batch. This one is in 300 dpi, but the future ones will apparently be 600 DPI. thank you to F-T-BScans for the scan.

The Billboard December 19th 1931

 

I requested the final few pages of the magazine get rescanned at 600 dpi, and those pages are here. Those are the few coin-op pages, but this section of the magazine will quickly grow in later issues.








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This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific attempts to eliminate trans people from society. Trans people have always existed, in every society, but the administration has embraced a moral panic, declared a war against reality, and says that trans people can no longer be allowed to exist. This includes making their healthcare illegal, censoring books and school curriculum from university level down to elementary school, and stoking the constant terrorist bomb and death threats against trans lives and institutions that don't also purge trans people.

This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked men and shipping them off to notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own citizens.

Please read: 'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military by Konstantin Toropin

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