Hello from Los Angeles Museum of the Game / KLOV
Hello... I signed up back in 2013 but didn't do anything other than look at a few posts. So I'm back today making my first post. I'm in Los Angeles and run the www.arcade-museum.com site and related activities. I'm working on research related to the history of coin-operated amusement and that includes Pachinko. I have some suspicions that the early history of Pachinko hasn't been perfectly described (ie: role of Corinthean Bagatelle possibly over-stated, influence and inspiration from a half century of European wall games eventually making it Japan possibly understated). My few seemed to be shared by the Masamura Pachinko Museum in Nagoya as noted several places on line. I don't speak Japanese (though have studied it in the past), and I'm having a hard time conducting any research.
In short, I'm particularly interested in pre-war history, as well as post-war machines from the end of the 1940s and the 1950s...
I'm about to post in the vintage section, but I'm also trying to find which of the Japanese Pachinko museums are still open (or are not...) as I'll be in Japan soon.
Greg
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