But why 'Mono' machines only (continued)
For me, those other machines lack the real interactivness with balls, nails and mechanical centrepieces that the older hanemono and kenrimono machine feature. Yakumono toys in 90s machines like, for example, 'Sparkman' (at right), are a real thrill to get started and to maintain a 'fever' on. They're dinky, colourful, and mercifully quick in their deliverance of a result, unlike so many modern deji-pachis which seek to bedazzle with ever more exotic and drawn out video reaches.
Hanemono, kenrimono and arrangeball variant machines are then, to the fan like myself, so much more exciting than the 'spray and pray' deji-pachi machines which are so popular in modern-day Japanese parlours. The skill and the visual feast of the old-skool mechanics involved are what attracts us.
Finally of course, there is precious little targetted information on just these machines types in English on the internet. Pachinko unfortunately remains in the Western world, a strange 'foreign' enigma whose intricacies are little reported on and even more rarely explained correctly. To those of us who do understand it though, good information from reliable sources is necessary to feed our addiction.
It seemed about time I attempted to aid the cause...
For me, those other machines lack the real interactivness with balls, nails and mechanical centrepieces that the older hanemono and kenrimono machine feature. Yakumono toys in 90s machines like, for example, 'Sparkman' (at right), are a real thrill to get started and to maintain a 'fever' on. They're dinky, colourful, and mercifully quick in their deliverance of a result, unlike so many modern deji-pachis which seek to bedazzle with ever more exotic and drawn out video reaches.
Hanemono, kenrimono and arrangeball variant machines are then, to the fan like myself, so much more exciting than the 'spray and pray' deji-pachi machines which are so popular in modern-day Japanese parlours. The skill and the visual feast of the old-skool mechanics involved are what attracts us.
Finally of course, there is precious little targetted information on just these machines types in English on the internet. Pachinko unfortunately remains in the Western world, a strange 'foreign' enigma whose intricacies are little reported on and even more rarely explained correctly. To those of us who do understand it though, good information from reliable sources is necessary to feed our addiction.
It seemed about time I attempted to aid the cause...
