Chicago Coin Gunsmoke machine (1968)

[Dinkysaurs]

Owing to where I live, we’re going to deliver the pintable next week when the kids are on half term, as owing to me being main carer for my wife, I can only get out and about on an afternoon.

Dunno why I told you all that Bored me self as well……………….

HOWEVER, I forgot to mention that the chap also gave me 9 x Pinball etc. “PINBALL PLAYER” fanzines from the mid-1980s, of which I attach scans of the front covers……………..

I like the front cover of the Aug/Sept 1985 edition with the cartoon of machines playing on machines, and the two jukeboxes dancing together

And check out the page I have also posted of the price of pintable machines in the mid-1980s!!! (I’ve darkened the print as much as I can in software)

Printing quality is not brilliant, as I think they have been done on a photocopier – anyone come across this publication before?

 

[Paul]

Owing to where I live, we’re going to deliver the pintable next week when the kids are on half term, as owing to me being main carer for my wife, I can only get out and about on an afternoon.

Dunno why I told you all that Bored me self as well……………….

HOWEVER, I forgot to mention that the chap also gave me 9 x Pinball etc. “PINBALL PLAYER” fanzines from the mid-1980s, of which I attach scans of the front covers……………..

I like the front cover of the Aug/Sept 1985 edition with the cartoon of machines playing on machines, and the two jukeboxes dancing together

And check out the page I have also posted of the price of pintable machines in the mid-1980s!!! (I’ve darkened the print as much as I can in software)

Printing quality is not brilliant, as I think they have been done on a photocopier – anyone come across this publication before?

I'll have all of those pinball machines for £30 each though... might even stretch to the doodlebug for £35..!!!

 

[Dinkysaurs]

Does anyone remember that publication or have seen one before, and is there anything like it now?

 

[AlanJ]

There was this:

I have issues 1-10. Dunno if there was more after that.

 

[Dinkysaurs]

Nice set

 

[Jay Walker]

Dinky/John,

The set pictured by yourself, and those by Alan J, have the same origin, the 'Pinball Owners Association', founded in the late 70's. For a while in the late 80's, I contributed to the magazine, and took charge of the back issues. I recall the feature which ends on the back page you've posted, about the difficulty in buying all four of Williams 2-level games.

That cartoon's quirky, isn't it?. Another I remember by that artist showed a ball, with a face and arms, pointing its finger at a mean looking bumper and captioned "I never even touched you!". The point being that early Bally solid-state games could have bumpers and slingshots operate from over-sensitivity, without contact from a ball.

 

[Dinkysaurs]

Dinky/John,

The set pictured by yourself, and those by Alan J, have the same origin, the 'Pinball Owners Association', founded in the late 70's. For a while in the late 80's, I contributed to the magazine, and took charge of the back issues. I recall the feature which ends on the back page you've posted, about the difficulty in buying all four of Williams 2-level games.

That cartoon's quirky, isn't it?. Another I remember by that artist showed a ball, with a face and arms, pointing its finger at a mean looking bumper and captioned "I never even touched you!". The point being that early Bally solid-state games could have bumpers and slingshots operate from over-sensitivity, without contact from a ball.

Cursory flip through the magazines and can't find the article you refer to, but have found the cartoon.................................

 

[Dinkysaurs]

Ooh go on - that intreagues me just as much as the Gunsmoke

Congrats on the purchase!

Well, here it is, the fruit machine, which is a Bell Fruit New Target. It lights up, but that's about it, and if you want it? It's yours for nowt - Free of Charge, if you'd like to collect it from Ipswich........

 

[Dinkysaurs]

And here is the CC Gunsmoke machine

 

[Jay Walker]

Re. the fruit machine - a coin slot that low down wouldn't be allowed now, I think there's a minimum height requirement for the coin entry. A 90's Barcrest cabinet that my colleagues and I disliked had a plastic top panel, with a raised bulge which seemed to be there to get the coin/token acceptors up high enough.

The pinball seems quite tidy, considering how long it's been standing unused.

 

[Spandangler]

Gun smoke looks cool

 

[Dinkysaurs]

Well, here it is, the fruit machine, which is a Bell Fruit New Target. It lights up, but that's about it, and if you want it? It's yours for nowt - Free of Charge, if you'd like to collect it from Ipswich........

Re. the fruit machine - a coin slot that low down wouldn't be allowed now, I think there's a minimum height requirement for the coin entry. A 90's Barcrest cabinet that my colleagues and I disliked had a plastic top panel, with a raised bulge which seemed to be there to get the coin/token acceptors up high enough.

The pinball seems quite tidy, considering how long it's been standing unused.

Yes, I thought that was odd, as I'd never seen one like that before where the top slot is for 5p and the bottom 10p

 

[Dinkysaurs]

Gun smoke looks cool