Pachinko type toy

[hanabi]

This is described as being a Pachinko type game, although I think it's also reminiscent of the allwins and bagatelles??

Made by Mattel, it's plastic and from the 70's and quite interesting, looks like it has a bell too and gives different payouts depending on which pocket

pachinko type toy

[wibbix]

Thanks for sharing. I had to look up allwins...

bagatelles: Buy Bagatelle games
allwins: Allwins

[hanabi]

I have very fond memories of winning packets of Fruit Polos on the Allwins as a young girl

[Sid]

Ohhh So thats why you werent here yesterday...

[Eddie]

I won one of those machines some time back and spent a lot of time trying to restore it to no avail. The Green Playfield is made of cardboard and is a main component of the working structure.
It had been water damaged and the clear plastic face had to have its plastic rivets drilled out in order to remove it.
I tried everything I could to clean and reenforce the cardboard including covering both sides with Mylar. It took hours making all of the necessary cuts.
Then polishing the Plastic and Cleaning the cool looking tokens.
All of the other components were cleaned and adjusted as well.
Putting it all back together using a soldering iron to re-rivet the face took another few hours to get it near perfect.
In the end it still didnt work! The Cardboard slots were just too worn to complete the channels for the tokens.
It looked really nice and almost new but I didnt have room for a machine that would never work again so in the trash it went, just like that
It is still a nice looking piece for a game room as a decoration.
The tokens have a really nice shape to them.
I think I saw a reissued one at Toys R Us last week. I might have to go back down and pick one up.