Name: Amosco - アモスコ
Year: 1965
Company: アオシマ・モウカル・オカネ・シコタマ・カンパニー (Aoshima Moukaru Okane Shikotama Company)
Amosco is a 5-reel slot machine released in 1965. It comes in two different reel varieties. SP-1型 has dice reels, SP-2型 has fruit reels. It has 5 "skill stop" buttons.
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Transcription:
●新型ゲームマシン「アモスコ」。「アオシマ・モウカル・オカネ・シコタマ・カンパニー」の略。要するに青島幸男の考案である。サイコロの目を使ったものとフルーツ図柄を使ったものと2通りあり、写真は後者の「SP-2」型。SPとは「しょっぱな」の略である。10円硬貨を2枚入れてレバーを引くとドラムが回転、ストップボタンで目を揃えるという、ただのゲーム機だが、半年間で400台ほど売れたという。
Machine translation:
●A new type of gaming machine, "Amosco." It stands for "Aoshima Moukaru Okane Shikotama Company." In other words, it was invented by Aoshima Yukio. There are two types, one that uses dice numbers and one that uses fruit designs, and the photo shows the latter, the "SP-2" model. SP is an abbreviation of "Shoh-han-na." It's just a gaming machine in which you insert two 10-yen coins, pull the lever to spin the drum, and press the stop button to align the numbers, but it seems that about 400 units were sold in six months.
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| Coin Slot 1966-01-29 |
TAITO Trading Co. Ltd. are newcomers to the ATE and showed a number of pieces of equipment which are of Japanese origin. Among them was the poker game, Amosco.
Shaped like a fruit machine there are five panels through which numbered dice may be seen. When 6d is inserted and the handle pulled the five dice are scrambled and when they come to rest the player has to develop a poker hand preferably five of a kind with the red dotted aces wild.
The dice are "shaken" each time by pressing a button and can be stopped by pushing another button above it. The catch is that there is a time limit of one minute and the time passing is denoted by an illuminated second hand on the fascia glass. This game can also be played by using fruit symbols.
A kiddy ride ride called Canonball Express which makes all appropriate train noises was also to be seen, as was the Strike a Lucky Token fruit which is described elsewhere.
Summarizing the rules above:
- one minute game time
- player must make the best poker hand with 5 dice / fruit
- First button in front of each reel spins that reel
- Second button stops the reel
- red-dotted aces are wild
Taito Trading brought Amosco to the ATE tradeshow in Britain in February 1966.
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| Kansai Seiki catalogue, ~1967 |
The dimensions given above: width 45cm, depth 45.5cm, height 58.5cm, 32.5 kg weight, 65 cm stand height. With an option for 10 yen or 20 yen play.
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| arcade from an onsen brochure |
I did not prepare a full Arcade Exploration, since there is only this one machine, but let's look at a movie from 1972.
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| 1972 - 銀蝶流れ者 牝猫博奕 / Gincho nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi (Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler ) |
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| in the background we see a brown AND red Amosco machine. When the view changes, we only see a brown machine in a different location |
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| Later in the movie, we finally get a close-up |
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| dice reels, so this is SP-1 |
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| SCORE SHEET |
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| the illuminated clock counts down the 1 minute of playtime |
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