~1969 King Ball - キングボール by 日本自動販売機 (Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki — Game Mate) & カトウ (Kato)

Name: King Ball - キングボール
Year: ~1969 
Company: 日本自動販売機 (Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki — Game Mate) & カトウ (Kato)

According to the description, it is a 5 ball smartball-style game where you are trying to get 4 card suits in a row.  It has a payout slot at the bottom, but I do not know if it pays out medals or a different type of prize.  The earliest mention I have found is in the 1969 machine directory, though I believe it might  have been 1968.

1969 machine directory

In the company info of the 1969 directory, the game is in the list of items manufactured by カトウ (Kato):

But it also has King Ball listed under Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki.

King Ball also appears in the 1972 machine directory, and it is listed as from 日本自動販売機 (Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki)

1972 machine directory

1969 machine directory advertisement by 日本自動販売機 (Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki) for King Ball

This Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki advertisement lists King Ball in their product list:

All Japan Amusement Park 1970-05

So perhaps Kato was the original manufacturer and Nihon Jidô Hanbaiki sold it.

This flyer was shared by @area51_zek:

Let's look at the cigarettes:

Luckily for us, we already compiled information on cigarette packs on our Research Notes page!  We can learn about them via Muuseo (archive), and I will repost the two key images here:

from 1961-04-01

from 1968-05-01 until mid-1972

The cigarette packaging on the flyer has the purple seal, meaning the photo for the flyer was taken in 1968 or later.

You can see the front corner of King Ball in this photograph:

King Ball is the first machine, bottom left corner.

And in this new photograph posted by accs2014 we can see King Ball being played:

posted by accs2014