Vintage Hokoku

[hanabi]

Here's an interesting vintage pachinko for sale on ebay

it's a Hokoku (seller has mistyped) and I don't think they are that common??

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Japanese...3%3A1|294%3A50

I think one of our members (slothappy mike??) has one or had one from this manufacturer??

Anyway the start price is a very reasonable $49-99

[compirate]

Interesting that 2 made by the same maker are up on YJA at the same time, 50000Y and 60000Y BIN:

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[mudfud]

isn't that over $400?

why so expensive, in the land of pachinko?

[hanabi]

I'm guessing they don't have many vintages over there,

probably only in private collections??

and this seems to be an uncommon manufacturer too??

[Moparformances]

nice looking machine.. little water damage but still a nice machine

[MrGneiss]

I'm guessing just like today..they were just seen as trash over there once they were out of the parlors...

So in the 70s when Pachinko Palace was having thousands shipped over here, in japan very few were saved..

So now 30-40 years later we still have ours and they only have a few!!

[pinball wizard]

if that's the case,someone better snap that one up for 50 bucks and list it on yja for 400.

[mudfud]

anyone here bidding on this? If someone else really wants it, I don't want to run the price up.

I looked at the back and thought, "there's a mechanism I don't have yet"... yeah, first it was "oh, that's a nice cell", or "oh, I don't have a single shot yet", or "I need a nishijin C to go with A and B", or "it's my birthday 2 months ago", or, "I don't have a powerflash yet", etc...

maybe we could start a new thread

what's your last rationalization for buying a pachi?

(don't think the wives will buy it, though )

[hanabi]

"rationalization"??

We don't need no rationalization round here!!

If you want it, you go get it!!

[mudfud]

I got it for $70. will post pix after arrival.

[slothappy144]

Any photo's of the machine? I would like to see more of the Hokoku brand?
Mine is a 1952 single shot with built in ball lifter.

[MrGneiss]

Here, I think this is a thread on this machine!!

vintage hokoku