Name: 金魚すくい4人プレイ用 (Goldfish Scooping for 4 players)
Year: 2000
Company: 北日本通信 (KNT)
Year: 2000
Company: 北日本通信 (KNT)
This is a 4-player crane machine where you scoop live goldfish. This machine was exhibited in the "New Machine Guide" of Arcadia 0005 magazine, published 2000-10.
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| Arcadia 0005 (2000-10) via Internet Archive |
This game is notable because it seems the USA company Stern Pinball tried to sell it in 2004.
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| 2004 Goldfish Catcher by Stern Pinball |
I have not seen any of these in real life, but it is interesting that Stern would have attempted to sell these. 2004 was a severe low-point in the pinball industry, with Stern being the only company left.
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| I'll just leave this here. |
Here is a video of a Goldfish Catcher in Vietnam:
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| a mention in Game Machine 2002-03-01 |
A promotional videotape for this machine has been digitized by the folks at Hard4Games:
The full promo tape was uploaded to the internet archive.
The patent for this machine was filed in 1998 under JP3048891U. (via tweakbod)
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| JP3048891U |
This game was later released in an orange colour scheme, and in this ad we can see the 2-player variant as well as the Mini version.
And for fun,
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