Video on pachinko history, featuring early machines from around the world

[cait001]

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 ... stery.html

Many wonderful machines to spot, and with full english subtitles, this marked the beginning of the contemporary pachinko history movement, undoing the earliest myths (a struggle that continues for historians to this day).

[pennymachines]

Many thanks for bringing this to us. Fascinating footage.

A couple of comments:
The game in Nic's house that Kei Tani calls a Bolland, was the Pin Royal, which is arguably not a gambling machine, being originally designed to only return your coin.

The game in the French collection he calls 'Machines-a-Sous' was an allwin called Bachelet ('machine a sous' being the French generic for 'slot machine').

[pennymachines]

Incidentally, a wall machine briefly glimpsed at the top of Nic's staircase is John Jofeh's Fortuna, patent GB190113701 applied for in 1901, almost three decades before Pin-Royal was made. Essentially it's the same thing - an upright bagatelle - see the example below (unfortunately in a newly-made case).

[cait001]

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/sear ... xploration

[cait001]

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 ... -mook.html

Lots of British and French machines featured, but still a number of machines I have not identified. Please do help if you enjoy spotting rare machines.

like surely someone here recognizes these two...




and another relevant post, with a scan from Japan:
scan: ヨーロッパに生まれ日本で育ったパチンコ百年史 [A Centennial History of Pachinko Born in Europe and Raised in Japan] (2002)
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023 ... hinko.html

This book is about the influence of European machines on Japan, and even features Nic Costa!

[lastcenturygames]

Hello,

You'll find the French machines that I recognize in the below picture (but in the nippon description do you know if the owner of the collection is identified?) :
1 : l'Eclaireur manufacturing by Grasset in Marseille (~ 1898)
2 : l'Etonnant manufacturing by Grasset in Marseille (~ 1898)
3 : le Poker d'As manufacturing by Loubet in la Garenne Colombes (~ 1934)
4 : le Magic or La Joconde manufacturing by Beraud in Paris (~ 1910)
5 : la Roulette Visible manufacturing by Bussoz in Paris (~ 1914)

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[lastcenturygames]

In complement this french machine is Le Caméléon manufactured by Lombard in Paris (~ 1909) and distributed by Comptoir Français d’Appareils Automatiques in Lille (indicated at the top of the machine).

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