This is one the earliest pachinko machines. When a winning hole was hit, the ball would hit a lever and trigger a bell that was attached to a battery. The operator would pay out the prize through a slot / cup at the bottom.
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| rear view of machine |
Oka are famous for making early pachinko machines, their oldest around 1929. They are not the first to make pachinko machines, that would be ON Shokai. There are no known existing copies of those machines, so currently the oldest known existing pachinko machine is by Oka.
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| Oka company plaque. Despite it saying "electric", only some of their machines used electricity. |
The first pachinko machines operated on sen coins. The earliest machines would have their wins paid by hand by the operator who would place coins in a bottom tray. This is one of the early machines designed to automatically pay you coins for a win. Pachinko machines would be changed to dispense balls around 1937, due to money gambling machines being prohibited by regulations.
Kazuo Sugiyama of the Birth Of Pachinko Museum says this machine was probably made between 1930 and 1932.
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| back of machine |
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