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thread of my posts, starting with my latest:
exploring the arcade in the 1978 movie 鬼畜 / Kichiku (The Demon)

each blog entry features an arcade in a movie (mostly from ) and tries to identify all of the machines.
This is an exceptionally difficult task because:
1) I'm focused on movies from the 1930s-1970s
2) Japanese arcade machines were not well documented until I got fed up and started my eremeka site

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exploring the arcade in 団地妻しのび逢い (1972) aka Danchizuma shinobiai aka Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
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exploring the arcade in ワンパク番外地 / Wanpaku Bangaichi (1971)
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We also do old TV shows!

exploring the arcade in La belle équipe (1936)
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Sometimes we also do media from outside of Japan :)

exploring the arcade in 本日休診 / Honjitsu kyûshin / Doctor's Day Off (1952)
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exploring the arcade in ハイティーンやくざ / Hai tiin yakuza / Teenage Yakuza (1962)

exploring the arcades in a few Japanese TV shows
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this one is a grab-bag of multiple sources

cpi

exploring the arcade in the 1976 music video Cools - Mr.ハーレー・ダビットソン (Mr. Harley Davidson)
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exploring the arcade of Gメン'75 第24話「二人組警官ギャング」
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exploring the arcade in 愛欲の罠 / Aiyoku no wana aka Trapped in Lust (1973)
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this is by far the most important and impressive arcade I have documented.

Kuujjuaq Arcade 1982
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this and the next are two arcades up in Northern Canada!

exploring the arcade in 黒い賭博師 悪魔の左手 aka Kuroi Tobakushi: Akuma no Hidarite aka Black Gambler: Devil's Left Hand (1966)
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exploring the arcade in 東京流れ者 aka Tōkyō nagaremono aka Tokyo Drifter (1966)
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exploring the arcade in ずべ公番長 ざんげの値打もない (1971) aka Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess aka Delinquent Girl Boss: Unworthy of Penance
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and last but definitely not least, my very first arcade exploration... (oh and Fred Astaire is so dreamy!)
exploring the penny arcade of The Band Wagon (1953)

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but wait! There's more! I also have 2 posts that are somewhat related.
I have been documenting the appearance of in Japanese movies. Currently there are 31 movies included. You know what? I'm going to post a whole series of my favourite screenshots of movies with pachinko to go along with this

exploring pachinko in Japanese cinema...
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(I also have a page of pachinko in foreign cinema incoming)

exploring pachinko in Japanese cinema...
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these 4 pictures are all from the 1975 movie 濡れた欲情 ひらけ!チューリップ (Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip)

exploring pachinko in Japanese cinema...
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6/
these 4 images are all from the 2004 movie 下妻物語 / Shimotsuma monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)

did I ever mention I made a super-edit of a themed porn?
There is actually a bunch of porn in this whole thread, but all the others are "roman porno" or what we used to call "blue movies".

Here are the best parts of Pachinko Queen Explosion, edited down to just under 7 minutes of hardcore action
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@cpi wow, this whole series of posts is amazing!

@driph thanks, I'll try and finish up the thread later tonight but the meat of it all is in the blog posts themselves where we actually get to play detective and iinerize the machines

@cpi I'm looking at that first picture and imagining a multi player pinball system. I know that's not one, but now I'm thinking of one. Maybe there's a co-operative element. I'm imagining a portal to shoot balls into another play field and then get a percentage of that player's multiball score while you get a new ball and keep playing.

I'm no pinball expert, but I've never heard of any multiple simultaneous player systems.

@ifixcoinops : how about you?

@cpi @ifixcoinops That's very cool. I imagine homebrew glass top for that odd shape remains a challenge