I am very happy to share one of my favourite auction catalogues. This catalogue featured some of the most wonderful machines made between 1885-1915, and only a few machines outside of those years. This is one of the most important collections of European coinop history ever assembled.
Download the PDF from archive.org
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| The Costa-Haskell Collection of early and important Coin Machines (1997) @ archive.org |
sample pages:
A perfect companion to the episode TVムック故郷は欧州 意外なパチンコ進化論 (TV Mook Mystery Journey: Surprising theory of pachinko evolution) that I posted, and also did an arcade exploratin for. This book explores the history of pachinko in the context of European machines!
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| ヨーロッパに生まれ日本で育ったパチンコ百年史 |
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| A visit to the Hastings ' pier |
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| We even get to see Nic Costa again! |
Hosted be 谷啓 (Kei Tani,) this aired on Nippon TV January 1992 and features Dick Bueschel (USA), Nic Costa (Cyprus), André Simon (France), and 遠藤嘉一 (Kaichi Endo, Japan,) amongst others.
Annotations provided by Kazuo Sugiyama.
Translation assistance by Ladios.
Thank you Simon Prentis (original English & Japanese interpreter in the TV show) for the video.
Additional notes and editing by Caitlyn Pascal.
Kazuo Sugiyama, who runs the Birth of Pachinko Museum, has released a new book on the Corinthian game in Japan!
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| パチンコ四部作完結編 コリントゲーム史 (Pachinko tetralogy final edition Corinthian game history) |
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| a little bit of Nic Costa! |
2 more items purchased from Japan, graciously scanned by the lovely preservationist @hubz of GamingAlexandria fame.
The first one is an overview of the industry, released by a magazine that published beginning 1951. This publication is from 2011. It includes many rare photographs, even from before 1951. My favourite section is the collection of advertisements from each of the eras.
It also includes an article that references Nic Costa and Kazuo Sugiyama!
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| 遊技通信でみるパチンコ業界の60年 60 Years of the Pachinko Industry |
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| 1962 - page 37 |
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| 1966 - page 59 |
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| 1974 - page 71 |
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| 1985 - page 86 |
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| Kazuo Sugiyama - page 129 |
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| パチンコ博物館 Pachinko Museum |
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| magazine archives from page 7 |
Nic Costa is one of the premier researchers of coinop history. Similar to what Dick Bueschel achieved in the USA, Nic Costa pursued with the UK's (and world's) coinop history.
The Nic Costa Archive: Coinop History is an initiative out of Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK overseen by Dr. Alan Meades. The archive consists of all of Nic's index card catalogues and research files, which have now been digitized.
Some of Nic's books on coinop:
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| Automatic Pleasures: the History of the Coin Machine |
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| More Automatic Pleasures- The Slot Machine Revolution |
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| Penny in the Slot: Conceiving the Internet- the Birth of the Coin Machine 1735-1883 |
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| Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade |
The archive is currently in version 1.1 but I hope for this to be an iterative process. Currently none of the files have useful names, but there is now a folder structure setup to help assist finding information. One purpose of the archive is to help inform the world of the materials within. For example, pages of negatives are scanned in, but the negatives themselves have not undergone preservationist scanning. Likewise, some of the materials found within are done with quick scans, not preservationist scans.
Since the research is centered around UK/Europe, countries outside of that range like USA and Japan often have their own folders. The sorting system I set up is still quite preliminary.
Here is the current folder structure:
To begin, I want to give examples of the last 2 main folders, so we are going in a somewhat reverse order.
The "photo slides & negatives" folder contains scans like this:
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| Companies - C Caille Brothers |
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| Machine Types Strength |
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| Machines - M Miniature Cricket |
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| People - W Whales, Oliver |
