Another Australian built Allwin / Wineasy

[ddstoys]

I've had my eye on this one for a while now but when Bob posted an old photo of this exact game I just had to have it took some wheeling and dealing but here it is just unloaded hasn't even been wiped.

I know the game is missing plenty of parts but a pretty cool cast ship instead of the usual cups.

Looks to be electric payout but I'll report back once I get a chance to open it up.

[treefrog]

Yes that nice with the liner theme......wonder if it was in a separate free standing case originally or always in the larger unit....you don't see many shipping related amusement machines, which is odd as cruise ships often had casinos. Maybe they came later.

[ddstoys]

It may have originally been a separate wall game, but can't see how it would have worked. There is a slot, that's been filled, which looks like it would have been a coin return, but there is no hole for the return handle.

The prize payout is too small for a penny. I'm thinking maybe it paid out a small bubble gum about the size of a Hubba Bubba.

Also has an interesting coin deflector.

Also great to see it back with its brothers and sister. These 3 all came from the same family arcade. Only a couple more to try and acquire.

[john t peterson]

My experience is that the shipping/sailing theme was quite rare in amusement games, which is strange when you think about the allure of sea travel. I have one ship themed allwin in my collection, a hand painted alteration of a sweets machine. It's charming, one of my favorites.

Captain John Peterson
Pirates "R" us in USA

[rol-a-top]

Looks great, if you don't mind me asking, where was the last photo taken ddstoys, the one with the four machines lined up?

[ddstoys]

The last photo was taken in my shed mate.

My experience is that the shipping/sailing theme was quite rare in amusement games which is strange when you think about the allure of sea travel. I have one ship themed allwin in my collection, a hand painted alteration of a sweets machine. It's charming, one of my favorites.

That's is a nice game. And you're right, I would have pictured ship themes to be popular back in the day.

[ddstoys]

Here is the photo that BOB posted

[coppinpr]

This thread made me think about the themes used on allwins, baring the plain allwins like the elevenses what would be the most popular theme used by makers? Sport I would guess, and then quite often the gambling sports (greyhounds, horse racing, even football is usually portrayed on the gambling side as the pools). Then there are prizes (sweets,cigarettes).

John says it's surprising that with the popularity of sea travel there are not many ship themes. I would suggest that is just the reason why they are so rare. The most popular mode of travel between 1930 and 1960 was the railways. I might be wrong, but I can't think of any railways themed allwins at all?

The new exciting fads were the way to go, space, aeroplanes motorways, yet not radio and TV, but then they were entertainment rivals to the arcade.

Wouldn't it be interesting to line up various allwins then give old duffers like us a handful of pennies and tell them one at a time to go play their favourite machine.