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highfield wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:27 pm Door looks like a Gottlieb pinball machine door

ding ding ding we have a winner!
nicely spotted

adding: I do think your machine is an earlier model. At least, initially. Yours has the three holes for each leg visible. It appears retrofitted with the extra green base, and then the robust coin door added. I'd be curious to know if you feel that retrofit was an amateur one-off or done by a factor...

Just purchased this Basketball machine today (rather strange after reading Cait001 post in Niche collections this very morning.) Big question: who made it? Does not look like the Sega in Cait001 post. Can anybody advise on the ball used and does anyone know how / who can repair cracks in the angula...

One last entry on Bill Howard. He had a third book published,"What's Worth Keeping." 2022. All the pictures in Bill's books are excellent and he recounts how he came to obtain the games. Any chance you, or anyone else, would sell Bill Howard's books? I'd like to buy them to do high resolu...

following! fascinating.

Niche Mechanisms 007: basketball ball-popping
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2024 ... -ball.html

these two pages on my site have a very few photos taken at trade shows in the 60's I do not know what shows or the actual dates other than the photo labled "1963 photo of the London amusement machine trade fair at the Horticultural halls shows Ruffler&Walker's stand front middle with Morri...

Does anyone have the exhibitor list and/or photos of exhibits at A.T.E. 21 of 1965? (Amusement Trade Exhibition) searching through magazines all I've been able to find is a handful of photos of few people there, but that's it. I have exhibitor lists from A.T.E. 20 (1964) and 22 (1966) and 23 (1966),...

Bumping this thread again: I am looking for runs of Coin Slot magazine to purchase and/or borrow. I will do high resolution scans of all of them, share them freely, and take all legal risks. If you want to sell them to me, great. If you want them back, I will cover all shipping costs and could even ...

It's hard to see this machine as a trade stimulator as in the original meaning. The trade stimulator period was dead and buried by 1949 and these Clovers come from era V of Sega's slot period so that's after the Sega hi-tops and Continentals, so late '70s and at the very end of their slot machine p...

Adding it here so it's seen in the thread:
~1937 日本大競馬場 (Japan big racecourse) [卓上競馬機 (tabletop horse racing machine)] by 日本娯楽機製作所 (Japan Amusement Machine Manufacturing)

I bet every few years they painted the whole thing over, not to modernise but to protect. As Fred Fowle commented , showmen regularly slapped on a new coat of varnish (or in this case paint) to protect the piece from wear and tear and the elements. Perhaps you should frame it? !!ARTIST!! LOL this i...

Here is a link: https://earlyarcadesjapan.blogspot.com/2024/01/1937-japan-big-racecourse-tabletop.html I have copied the images from this thread for the post to showcase the similarities. Even though the single image is of poor quality, there are many parallels that point to Ahrens' machines as bein...

I'm quite excited this thread popped up. I was sifting through Automatic Pleasures today and noticed the Huntsmans Derby and came online to learn more about it.

I think I've identified a Japanese machine that was a copy / based on Huntsman Derby and/or Greyhound Derby

exploring the arcade in 1992-01 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 https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023/10/exploring-arcade-in-1992-01-tv-tv-mook.html Lots of British and French machines featured, but still a number of machines I have not iden...

IMG_0519b.jpg The Pony Derby is now working as it did originally and has a reproduction backglass. You still around ballybingo? Your machine + photos inspired me to create entries for 2 machines that will deepen this mystery. ~1965 Pony Derby - ポニーダービー [import] by Keeney & さとみ (Satomi — Samy) h...

There's just no auction house that brings the spectacle like Morphy does. Lots of excitement brings lots of eyeballs which brings higher prices, but then that's why all the top collectors use them to exchange their 5-figure machines I guess. Morphy does the whole collector community a service by kee...

Ahhh well spotted! I'm in the process of finishing up an "arcade exploration" video to cover all of the machines in this TV show, and was just about to get to those pickwick-style ones. The current batch of arcade explorations is here: https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/search/label/Arcade...

I don't see why the BM Co doesn't fit in? I can see the "Whirl Wind" above is a spiral machine because the spiral decides the winner but the "All Winners" is a standard allwin with one extra set of rails. In fact, the "Chip or Bust" has the same number of rails as the ...

Omg - I love that "Darts" machine. Anyone know who makes it or when it's from?