スキールロール (skill roll) by 日本娯楽機械 (Japanese entertainment machine)

Name: スキールロール (skill roll)
Year: ~1960s
Company: 日本娯楽機械 (Japanese entertainment machine) 

This this machine appears on a flyer that has the title "SKIRU ROLL", the phonetic pronunciation, but that title does not appear on the machine.

Skill Roll is a game released by Bally in 1956. you flick your nickel through each stage of the course, collecting 10, 20, 30, or 50 points from each flick. 

1956 Skill Roll by Bally [from my collection]

The design of the cabinet matches quite well. The Japanese version has six knobs, the original has eight. The Japanese version also does not score at each level, only at the end. So instead of accumulating a score, and perhaps getting to the end of the course in lighting the "star" in the American version, the Japanese version has a single prize it dispenses at the winning slot. This would make construction far more cheaper, as it would require many less microswitches, and far less logic circuits.

There are two microswitches visible at the non-winning holes at the bottom, so perhaps there is a smaller prize dispensed with them.

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I do not have much information about the company, but 日本娯楽機械 (Nihon Gorakukiai) is just one additional character away from 日本娯楽機 (Nihon Gorakuki) and I can assure you they are not the same company.

Company info from the flyer:

Transcription:

日本娯楽機械株式会社
本社 名古屋市東区七小町79番地 電話(052>962-0982
工場 春日井市松河戸町段下1489番地
東北営業所 仙台市沖野字砂押46の3 電話<0222>86-5322

Machine translation:

Japan Amusement Machine Co., Ltd.
Head Office: 79 Nanakomachi, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Tel: 052-962-0982
Factory: 1489 Danshita, Matsukawado-cho, Kasugai, Tel: 052-962-0982
Tohoku Office: 46-3 Sunaoshi, Okino, Sendai, Tel: 052-86-5322 

The only other game I have by this company is Shovel Dozer, which I have a flyer of, but the on the other side of life of that game is in a game room photo that I estimate is from 1971.

By the looks of the advertisement in the cabinet, I am guessing 1960s, and the only real year anchor I have is that the renamed version of this game, Apollo Plan, which apparently was at Expo 70.

I am assuming that Apollo Plan came out after スキールロール (skill roll).

This game would go on to set the template through a flurry of coin flick games in the 1970s, including the always popular Shinkansen games.

While not exact, Shinkansen Game II does have a version that uses a very similar outerspace background.

1977 新幹線ゲームⅡ・宇宙 (Shinkansen Game II; Space) by 九娯貿易 (Kyugo Trading) & ニシキ製作所 (Nishiki Seisakusho)