Year: 1976
Company: 株式会社 九娯貿易 & ニシキ製作所 (Kyugo Trading & Nishiki Seisakusho)
I have never seen an advertisement for this game. I cannot confirm the year, but the DGM web page (archive) says it is 1976 as well. That is an incredibly busy year for this company! The First Generation Shinkansen game was released, the model II was released, and then model V!
There are no records of models III or IV existing.
What makes model V different from model II? I really cannot tell. Perhaps there were internal improvements, but there are very few visual changes.
There are at least 2 different graphics that are used for the bottom. The gentle green hills probably started existing somewhere during the run of Model II machines, as it was also used in 新幹線ゲームⅡ・宇宙 (Shinkansen Game II; Space). Because of this, I wonder if Model V is actually from 1977 or later. I do not have any other evidence though, so for the time being I will leave it as being from 1976 as the DGM website says.
And this graphic with Mount Fuji and the train:
Sometimes manufacturers will improve on their machines in ways that are not apparent to the player, but are important to the operator. I hope to find a press release or advertisements about model V some day.
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