Dropcase Games

[pennymachines]

Goldings Automatics Jugola, 1960s.

[pennymachines]

Mills Novely Company Cricket, 1903

[rippyspennyarcade]

Dropcase Games are defined here as those in which coins are used as projectiles and fall under the influence of gravity towards the winning targets.

Bradley 3d Challenger, 1960s



Cromptons Beachcomber, 1960s

[pennymachines]

I restored this machine about 15 years ago (hence the "superb condition" ) and sold it to the vendor who put it in last Sunday's auction. Around the same time I bought the sister machine, Sky Divers. Both had remains of grey fleck paint on the wood (probably factory original) but I couldn't live with it and stripped them back to the pine. I've not seen another before or since, but curiously they both got back together for a few hours at the Coventry sale.

It seems there were at least four versions of this game - Beachcomber, Sky Divers, Penny Drop and Pools Scoop - see: Cromptons Wall Machine flyer

[pennymachines]

Scandinavian dropcase-type games, 1980s





(with fairground & skhi-balls)

[bamsefar1]

Here is a video I have made of a Norwegian, approx 1978-version, of a flick a coin-machine named Silver Coin:

[bamsefar1]

This is a Dennis Jezzard " Tap a fruit" dropcase / flick a coin-machine. Probably made late 1970`s.
The voice in the video is in "viking-language" (Norwegian).

[pennymachines]

Bradley (Holte Manufacturing Co.) Super Challenger

[pennymachines]

UWAG Fingerschläger, 1930s.



Homemade version.

[pennymachines]

Five Jacks





Schnipp-Automat Paul Hildebrand & Co., Leipzig, 1928



Target, Wilhelm Fürst, Berlin? around 1927



Komet, 1910 (payouts issued manually by operator)