Anybody know anything about Sankyo Pinball Wall Machines?

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Anybody know about the company Sankyo? It just to make those Dive bar mechanical pinball wall machines. Anybody have info on them?

Neil UK · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

You might find these informative

www.sankyo-fever.co.jp/ir/pdf/annual2001.pdf

www.sankyo-fever.co.jp/ir/pdf/fs20040329.pdf

and one of their TV adds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMziCNFF1I Shocked

Neil.

Rik · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

You talkin' about Pachinko!? Japan's #1 national past time? Japanese pachinko parlors are world famous, hardly 'dive bar' pinball. Cool

I have about 8 of them myself! (Star Wars, Evangelion (anime), Garfield, Jurassic Park and several others...) They are actually pretty cool (modern ones especially).

Search eBay for pachinko, you will find a bunch of them...

Here's my videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rik1138
(And, yeah, the Nick Cage ones are pretty funny...)
If you REALLY want to get into them, join this forum:
www.pachitalk.com
I'm a member there myself. More info than you ever wanted...

And to keep it handheld related, here's a bunch of Pachinko handhelds:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Bandai/Pachinko.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Bandai/PachinkoStarWing.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Bandai/PachinkoStarWingII.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Bandai/PerfectPachinko.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Casio/Pachinko.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Casio/Pachinko2.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Casio/PachinkoGame.htm

And a VFD one! (My favorite!)
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tsukuda/GamePachinko.htm

Cool

Yeah, you came to good place to find out about Pachinko games... Mr. Green

Neil UK · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject:

Tsukuda Game Pachinko.
Do I have this? Yes, both versions loose, one boxed (new).

Please let me know how much you would like for it, if your thinking of selling your spare loose one at any time Wink

Thanks, Neil.

Dan · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject:

I have a modern one too, Thunderbirds. Fun, but loud!

Rik · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, loud they definitely are... Installing a proper volume control is almost a mandatory 'first thing you do' when you get one of these things... Can you imagine being in a parlor with hundreds of these set at the loudest setting?

I have Star Wars:
http://www.slot-pachinko.com/05PHTL/P2005STARWARSW.HTM
The second Evangelion machine listed here:
http://www.slot-pachinko.com/07PHTL/P2007EVANGELION.HTM

And another is Julie the Pinball:
http://www.arcade-history.com/.....mp;id=9211

This is cool if you are into Pinball machines, you can see the pinball playfield parts all over. And there's actually a tiny pinball playfield in there with flippers that you can play with the little pachinko balls... It's pretty cool... Mr. Green

Rik

Dan · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:46 am Post subject:

slot-pachinko.com is where I bought mine, too. I hadn't checked their site in quite some time, I see now they have a volume control solution and a nice cabinet, both at attractive prices, both of which I'll likely order soon. It always kind of bugged me, though, how they say in all their ads how pachinko makes American pinball "about as exciting as watching the grass grow." As if! Seriously, how much skill is required to hold a knob still at a place where the balls seem to be firing where you want them to go? Rolling Eyes

kobuntaku · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject:

I love both pinball and pachinko, I find them entertaining for different reasons. Have Back to the Future and Gegege no Kitaro machines myself. The BttF one comes complete with a light up flying Delorean surrounded by lightning and crazy on-screen animations. I got it from ebay, and I think it actually might have been slot-pachinko.com's ebay shop that sold it to me. They're amazingly cheap, even with shipping, I think the BttF machine only cost like $150-180 with shipping. I'd really like to get a Fist of the North Star PachiSlo (slot) machine one of these days. Pics below:

Rik · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

Welcome to the forum! Cool

kobuntaku · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:58 am Post subject:

Thanks for the input and such, yeah I love the 2-D representations of the characters with big heads usually, but the late 90's-mid 2000's machines that did the 3-D rendered ones usually look kinda junk-y to me. They used to call the "big head" thing "SD", or super-deformed, now they usually refer to them as "chibi".

There's a FotNS Pachislo slot machine with an LCD screen at the top that I've seen a bunch of times that I want, I want a Metal Slug one and one called Daruma Maneki Neko as well. I haven't seen many actual pachinkos that I've wanted in recent memory except the Evangelion ones and the domestic pachinko dealers know how much people here want them, so they're usually either sold out or expensive. (They know how to soap collectors worldwide for Eva stuff, Fender just released a limited number (2) of a guitar by Yuriy Shishkov, Senior Master Builder over at Fender, featuring Eva art and they went for $85,000 and $100,000 respectively.)

I'm not looking for anything at the moment, I don't know if you poked into my other thread but I'm actually trying to sell some stuff at the moment, and was trying to feel out what some seemingly rare Sega Pocket Arcade games would go for. But I may be looking in the near future, so that's good to know. I look at them and think "that's reasonable" but then like every place's shipping is insane, which, for something that weighs 80+ pounds I'm not really complaining but it is a nasty surprise when you figure it in.
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