scans of new purchases: Canadian Coin Box 1983-07, Marketplace 1974-06-30, 1988 game center manga, Amusement Japan 2007-01

Here are scans of a few recently acquired items.  The Canadian Coin Box I purchased back at Ontario Pinfest, and I got the Marketplace issues there as well.  Thank you to the vendor who set it aside for me! Thank you to Detchibe and ftb1979 for scanning these.

Canadian Coin Box 1983-07

 Lot of juicy stuff in this issue!  Highly recommended.  Some pages:

 

 

 Marketplace 1974-06-30

 

Likewise, this Marketplace issue is wonderful and has a whole section of prewar pins.

 

This next one is a bit of an oddball: It's a guide on how to run a medal gaming parlor, done up as a manga.  Released in 1988, I wanted to share this to help researchers get an idea of how medal game centers were managed back then.

接客大繁盛：まんが・ゲーム場管理者のためのサービス・マニュアル 五十章 [Customer Service is Booming: Manga Service Manual for Game Centre Managers, 50 Chapters] (600DPI)

example pages:

I think I was involved in purchasing this one.  It's a pachinko industry magazine and so very dry, but it does have a section with pictures of all of the latest pachinko and pachislot machines.

Amusement Japan [月刊アミューズメントジャパン] Vol. 10 No. 100 (January 2007) (600DPI)

example pages:

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This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific policies to try and 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 encouraging the constant rightwing 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 government-run terror campaign against its own citizens.

Please read: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement by Yessenia Funes 

Please read: Increases in Self-identifying as Transgender Among US Adults, 2014–2022 - key takeaway shows how vast the population being attacked is: "By 2022, 2.78% of 18- to 24-year-old adults self-identified as transgender"

Please read: Children’s National Hospital caves under Trump’s pressure & ends gender-affirming care for trans patients by Christopher Wiggins 

Please read: Judge halts non-binary person's deportation to the U.S. as Trump dismantles trans rights by Sheena Goodyear 

 

scans: Canadian Coin Box 1986-02 1986-06 1986-08 1986-09 1990-04/05 1992-07/08

6 more of my Canadian Coin Box issues have been scanned by Detchibe! Happy new year y'all! :)

Canadian Coin Box Magazine 1986-02

Canadian Coin Box Magazine 1986-06    

 

 

Canadian Coin Box Magazine 1986-08

 

Canadian Coin Box Magazine 1986-09

Canadian Coin Box Magazine 1990-04/05

Canadian Coin Box Magazine 1992-07/08

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This blog stands in protest against the moral panic against trans people existing, and the horrific eliminationist policies being enacted.  Do not treat me like a sub-human undeserving of dignity and freedom and then thank me for my work on arcade history.

Trans Rights Are Human Rights

scans: Canadian Coin Box, Canadian Vending, and Star Tech Journal scans

A nice potpourri of scans here. Thank you as always to those who donated and sold these to me, and thanks to Detchibe for scanning.  Most of these were pickups from the COAPF show in June.

Let's start with a Canadian Vending scan. Chronological order! This issue has an interesting article on the Japanese vending machine industry.

Canadian Vending 1970-12

here are the pages about vending machines and Japan:

Canadian Coin Box scans:

Canadian Coin Box 1971-12

Canadian Coin Box 1978-03

Star Tech Journal scans

Star Tech Journal 1990-08

Star Tech Journal 1991-05

Star Tech Journal 1991-08

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For my readers in the USA: The incoming administration has laid out plans for an eliminationist policy against trans people in your country. They have already written hundreds of laws to try and make trans people existing illegal, their health care the illegal, their schooling impossible, their history banned, and providing care for trans people has become illegal in some states with governors demanding parents be jailed if they support their trans child.  They have now set their eyes on eliminating trans people at the federal level. This blog stands in solidarity with trans people, in the face of this authoritarian evil.

The following is an excerpt of an email I had sent to another collector:

The time of wait and see was around 2017-2018 when Republican operatives openly planned to create a moral panic about LGBTQ people and especially trans people. They launched a massive propaganda campaign and the media accepted it at face value.  The time for action and solidarity was 6 years ago when they called all LGBTQ people pedophiles, sent bomb threats to schools, and sent death threats to our community leaders and healthcare providers. 

Before this latest open disinformation operation, LGBTQ people were enjoying more acceptance, rights, and freedoms than ever before. Those are being clawed back and an entire population gets to experience the utter dehumanization of having your rights revoked by a sneering majority.

Recall Rush Limbaugh laughing on his radio show as he daily celebrated every death from HIV/AIDS by name. They again revel in their cruelty.

I wish I had the luxury of distance, but I have to protect my family and friends from the death threats sent to us by literal nazis.  People are making plans for their entire lives being destroyed, for incarceration, and a huge uptick in the already normalized violence.

My continued presence on this blog is a reminder that we need to find moments of joy even amongst the sadistic terror of rising authoritarianism.

Never comply in advance.  Please stay safe.

banner via United Church of Christ

scans: Canadian Coin Box issue from 1948-1951, 1959, 1965

13 more issues of Canadian Coin Box!!

The Canadian Coin Box and Vending 1948-06

The Canadian Coin Box and Vending 1948-09, 10

scans: Canadian Coin Box 1977-11. 1977-12, 1978-01

3 more issues of Canadian Coin Box have been scanned by @hubz.  

Canadian Coin Box Magazine - November 1977

Canadian Coin Box Magazine - December 1977

Canadian Coin Box Magazine - January 1978

scans: Canadian Coin Box 1984-12 & 1985-07

2 new issues up for the Canadian Coin Box archival project thanks to the diligent work of Hubz over at Gaming Alexandria.

Canadian Coin Box 1984-12 (December 1984)

Canadian Coin Box 1985-07 (July 1985)

scans: The Canadian Coin Box and Vending 1948-02 & 1948-05

Thank you to Brad Merchant for scanning these two beautiful historical treasures of the Canadian coinop industry.

The Canadian Coin Box and Vending 1948-02
2 half pages missing, so if you have a complete copy of this issue, please do scan it!

The Canadian Coin Box and Vending 1948-05

View or download PDFs at the Internet Archive: 1948-02, 1948-05.

Canadian Coin Box 1993-07 (July+Aug 1993)

This magazine went off to a Gottlieb museum so I made sure to scan it.  Download or view at archive.org.

Canadian Coin Box 1993-07 (July+Aug 1993)

This issue has a great 2-page spread on North Star and their machines Seabreeze and Richelieu, 2 Canadian pinball machines from 1949.  Read more about them over on pindude152's blog.

some more pics from maaca threads beneath the cut

more awesome scans!

My friend Sparky passed me a stack of paper ephemera and there was some gold in it.  Here are 3 of the highlights that I am pleased to share with the coinop community.  Click on each picture's text to get the PDF from the Internet Archive.

Canadian Coin Box 1964-05 (May 1964)

~1955 Laniel Amusement price sheets (3 pages)

Halgame information by Hal Computer Inc, [Longwood, Florida, USA] (8 pages)