Cleaning up a late 70's Maruhon Pachinko (パチンコ) machine

[@IMRROcom]

growing up in the late 70's, early 80's a friend of mine had 3 Pachinko mounted on the wall in his garage. His mom would hand us an anodized aluminum cup full of balls and send all of us out to the garage. . Then we would go out and play for a few hours. Back then when neighborhood moms would trade of kid watching duty's in the summer.

[@SevensPinballorama]

A few of my childhood friends had machines at their houses - all bought in the mid to late 70's - and none of them worked. Either the machine didn't do anything or one of the boys in the house had shot all the balls from his wrist rocket.

[@IMRROcom]

@@SevensPinballorama Wrist Rockets and the metal balls, we did that too :) I think the key to keeping them working was filling the top hopper

[@JustinMBailey]

“Waa shinjirare nai machigai nai pachinko desu!!!” You know one of my favorite pinball stories of all time will always be when I tried to explain to my Japanese brother in law my love of pinball…and he thought I was talking about pachinko…..and I have a gambling problem 😵😵😵

[@SevensPinballorama]

That's hilarious.

[@JustinMBailey]

@@SevensPinballorama thank you, such a cool addition to your arcade! You know I always wonder if the Japanese were into pinball what kind of machines they would make? Super crossing my fingers they would not be making “Hello Pinball🐱” if you know what I mean!

[@SevensPinballorama]

@JustinMBailey - I've wondered that myself. It would probably be super crazy and loud. It seems like pinball is kind of out of the culture in Japan. There is a youtube channel I follow of a Japanese guy who's probably in his 30's making videos around Japan - staying in capsule hotels, visiting cat cafes, etc. He stumbles across a proper pinball machine and doesn't understand it at all. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJTJZJ16fd9oibssi=OyxB3wmRpscaaP0j&t=341 I keep meaning to put a clip of this in one of my videos because it's kind of cute.

[@JustinMBailey]

@@SevensPinballorama yeah I’ve always been surprised pinball never clicked over there, thank you for sharing the clip. Japanese vending machines always give me a good feeling and not just the beer ones🍺