Introduction of the tulip
Just a piece of info I gleaned today. It appears that any machine with a tulip would be 1962 or newer. Also, any with a masamura gauge is 1952 or newer.
"(In 1952, when To Live and Tea Over Rice came out, the arrangement of nails known as the "Masamura gauge" had just been invented, establishing the design still used in most pachinko machines today and setting the stage for pachinko's soaring popularity in the years to come.)
From then on, pachinko figured in many Japanese movies -- for example, Foundry Town, in which Sayuri Yoshinaga plays a girl who works in a pachinko parlor, and Chinjarajara Story, starring Junzaburo Ban, both made in 1962. (That was also the year when pachinko machines with "tulip" ball catchers appeared, igniting a new pachinko boom.)"
http://www.hajimete-pachinko.jp/pc/en/culture/index.php
Nice to set define dates.
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