Name: Sportsman - スポーツマン
Year: 1966
Company: 太東 (Taito — Crown)
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| from Taito 40th book |
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| from the Taito 40th book, this picture is labeled as 1967 and you can see the Sportsman at the back. |
Sportsman was a machine that appeared at Expo 7
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| entry from the 1969 machine directory |
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| English flyer |
Sportsman appears to be a direct copy the Deluxe Athletic Scale floor model machine made between 1947-1948 by Mercury Steel Corporation. At a glance, the Taito version has the Taito logo in the center of the marquee, and has less silver highlights.
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| 1947 Deluxe Athletic Scale floor model machine by Mercury Steel Corporation |
via
pinrepair (
archive,) the Mercury Athletic Scale had a few variants:
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| the Taito machine copies the Deluxe Model |
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