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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:59 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Putting Coinslot archive online
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6102
Re: Putting Coinslot archive online
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 ...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Sega Clover Bell & Blackjack
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8984
Re: Sega Clover Bell & Blackjack
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...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:36 am
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Ahrens Huntsmans Derby identified
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3103
Re: Ahrens Huntsmans Derby identified
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)
~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)
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Ahrens / Shefras Punchballs
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11345
Re: Ahrens / Shefras Punchballs
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...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Ahrens Huntsmans Derby identified
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3103
Re: Ahrens Huntsmans Derby identified
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...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:30 am
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Ahrens Huntsmans Derby identified
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3103
Re: Ahrens Huntsmans Derby identified
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
I think I've identified a Japanese machine that was a copy / based on Huntsman Derby and/or Greyhound Derby
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:00 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1055
Re: Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world
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...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Keeney's Pony Derby
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6345
Re: Keeney's Pony Derby
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...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Morphy Oct 2023 Las Vegas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1105
Re: Morphy Oct 2023 Las Vegas
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...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:18 am
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1055
Re: Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world
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...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Niche Collections
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11578
Re: Niche Collections
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 ...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Cottees Auction of Penny machines 4.11.23
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1940
Re: Cottees Auction of Penny machines 4.11.23
Omg - I love that "Darts" machine. Anyone know who makes it or when it's from?
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:03 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: The Undiscovered
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8284
Re: The Undiscovered
Wow, where's this one from? I thought I had a good grasp of these ones but never seen a double track before.
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Niche Collections
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11578
Re: Niche Collections
Thank you! I will add those to the post later this weekend. I thought a bit about the specific criteria I wanted to use and I decided to not list machines where the ball is launched via a spiral, so that first one, the BM Co All Winners, wouldn't meet my criteria, but the other 2 do as it's the spir...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: BM Co Pin Royal
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1206
Re: BM Co Pin Royal
What year is the Pin-Royal and will you sell it to me? ;)
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:10 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Niche Collections
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11578
Re: Niche Collections
Niche Mechanisms 006: spirals
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... irals.html
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... irals.html
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 3:39 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello from Atlantic Canada
- Replies: 3
- Views: 419
Re: Hello from Atlantic Canada
Hello everyone, I have been collecting and restoring old arcade cabinets from the '70s and '80s era. My most recent acquisition was a Duo Mat from an auction house. Unfortunately, the cabinet was missing as well as a few internals but the good news is the front glass is still intact and in good con...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
- Replies: 4
- Views: 659
Re: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
I have put this video up properly in its own thread at viewtopic.php?t=9589
I was also able to confirm that this indeed was Andre.
I was also able to confirm that this indeed was Andre.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:01 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1055
Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world
Hosted by 谷啓 (Kei Tani), this aired on Nippon TV January 1992 and features Dick Bueschel (USA), Nic Costa (then in the UK), André Simon (France), and 遠藤嘉一 (Kaichi Endo, Japan) amongst others. https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023/10/pachinko-history-tv-mook-mystery.html Many wonderful machines to ...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:44 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
- Replies: 4
- Views: 659
Re: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
Yes, this is from that 1992 Nippon TV special that was filmed in 1991. I have acquired the video and am working on subtitles, and while I am hedging that that is Andre Simon, I would like confirmation from other collectors. Do you have a recording of the 1992 talk? I have read the spring 1993 Coin S...