Dropcase Games

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Erbü-Wunder Erwin Büttner, Oberstdorf, 1950

[arrgee]

Erbü Wunder Erwin Büttner, Oberstdorf, 1950

Best video of a wall machine I have seen

[badpenny]

It's good to see our home grown Cascade is now grabbing decent prices. For too many years they just sat at £60 then all of a sudden you can't get one for under a ton and a bit.
I think the fact they were from the 70s and only made to operate on 1np (although we've all seen them described on eBay as being from the 50s or even earlier) kept them outside the interest of a lot of collectors.

[arrgee]

Couldn't agree more BP, I remember only about 2 years ago I saw a Cascade in a 'junk shop' I did look at it but walked away: front paintwork was in a bad state and the shop wanted £450 !!!!

[bamsefar1]

This machine has text on the front-glass, partially adapted to Norwegian language.
Object of the game is to flick a coin into the playfield. Each coin is flicked thee times. To obtain the highest payout a payout slot in each of the three "floors" must be hit.

Dropcase/flick-a coin machines were the dominant type of coin-ops for approx 40 years. The fun factor with this one is the 3 flick action :-)

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Jentzsch & Meerz Forma



Th. Bergmann & Co. Glücksspinne

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Rollite Moonraker, recently uploaded by chris roadhog

[cait001]

That's remarkable! Is there any footage of that Goalie machine?
I wish that video was on Youtube so I could easily download it. I'm unsure how to extract facebook video. When it comes to game preservation, I never assume that videos will stay online for the long haul and I try to archive them.

[JC]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but what a piss-boring machine. No wonder it's the only one left! Sorry Paul, I'm sure you're very happy with it, and of course it does have historical value, but I can't help thinking that these machines (and I have no idea how many were built) would have been seen by operators as a waste of space - which might explain why this is the only one to survive...... And that's only because it was protected from being scrapped by Watermouth Castle for so long long.

[brigham]

I have to agree about the gameplay. You inserted your penny, and it fell onto a board with craters on it, with an unpleasant crash.
I thought at first that the machine wasn't working properly, a conclusion helped by the broken model of Thunderbird 3 revolving within it.
Play once, and simply walk away!