Year: ~1967
Company: カトウ (Kato)
A yokomono (horizontal) game in a pinball chasis, but this is not flipper pinball nor smart ball.
How To Play, from the flyer:
盤面中央より、はじき出される玉をゴールに入れますが、ゴール前のところに色々な障害があり、キーパー2人、それにバンパーを利用して8点以上得点をとればリプレー(再ゲーム)できます。ゲームは1分間です。
Machine translation:
How to play: A ball that is thrown out from the center of the board is sent into the goal, but there are various obstacles in front of the goal, and if you use two keepers and bumpers to score 8 or more points, you can replay the game. The game lasts 1 minute.
The more cartoony version of this game appears in the 1969 machine directory.
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| 1969 machine directory |
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| 1972 machine directory |
In the back of both 1969 and 1972 directories, Soccer 8 is listed under Kato.
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| 1972 machine directory: Kato company info lists Soccer 8 |
From an auction, here is a flyer from カトウ (Kato) showing the alternate backglass version:
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| Soccer 8 flyer (image was stretched out in photoshop) |
Other than the backglass, this version of the game appears to be identical. I have no year indications for this second backglass, and can't say which comes first though given the lack of appearances of this one, my instinct is to think it was the first version.
In an interview in Amusement Journal, Soccer 8 is listed as a machine by Kato.
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| Amusement Journal 2015-11 |
Soccer 8 also appears on a flyer with Basket Game, which I think is also a Kato machine but has an odd assortment of companies that are also associated.
Given the early nature of Basket Game, and how Soccer 8 was mentioned in the 2015 interview amongst the listing of Kato games that were produced next, I think Soccer 8 came out around 1967.
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