Name: Stop Joker
Year: 1974
Company: 昭和遊園機械 (Showa Yuen Kikai)
Stop Joker is a medal game that was converted from a German machine. the front artwork has been redone, and the stand is all new.
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| TAN 91-10923 |
Type approval number 91-10923 was registered in 1974 to Showa Yuen Kikai. I am assuming that is when this game was released.
transcription:
STOP&JOKERの遊び方
10円玉1個を入れると数字がまわりだします。ボタンにあかりがついたらスタート。ストップを上手にして数字を合せてください。うまくできると合った数だけ PFG メタルがでてきます。
PFG メタルは右上の入口から入れてください。1個で1回ゲームができます。 メタルは金品ととりかえることはできませんので全部ゲームをしてください。
1回10円
10円玉しかつかえません
machine translation:
How to play STOP & JOKER
Insert one 10-yen coin and the numbers will start to rotate. Start when the button lights up. Use the stop function to match the numbers. If you do it right, you'll receive PFG medals equal to the number of matches.
Insert PFG medals through the opening in the upper right corner. One coin will be enough for one game. Medals cannot be exchanged for cash, so play all of them.
10 yen per play
Only 10-yen coins are accepted.
This machine appears to be a conversion of Roto Mat Joker, released 1963 by Günter Wulff
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| Roto Mat Joker, released 1963 by Günter Wulff |
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| Roto Mat Joker, inside |
Hello Caitlyn, it’s always a pleasure to read Earlyarcadesjapan.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that Günter Wulff could be the same person as Gunther Wolff, a ‘West German merchant’ and shareholder of Club Specialty Overseas?
https://retrocdn.net/images/6/63/Fraud_and_Corruption_in_Management_of_Military_Club_Systems_1969_%28United_States_Government_Printing_Office%29.pdf (pages 1885 and 1917)
Nice to see you again! I will have to go back and read your blog, you always post info that is new to me.
DeleteI do think that the document you linked refers to Günter Wulff, and it's just a spelling mistake or a different spelling. One year ago I called Freddy Bailey, who worked with Marty Bromley, and Freddie said that Günter was once a director of Service Games. Perhaps he was a director of Club Specialty Overseas and that was the stand-in for Service Games? Or he was with both legal entities, unsure.
He also said that Sega Bells were made in Germany by Günter Wulff.
Any chance you can identify the unknown videogame cabinet in this post? https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/09/exploring-arcade-in-1978-aka-kawa-jan.html
also if you go to https://earlyarcadesjapan.blogspot.com/2022/03/notes.html there is a link to an interview with Scott Tsumura with a bit of insight into the 1970s grey-market machines