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7/29/2025, 11:40:05 AM
>>11903767
At least cry over something serious that's been lost.
Look at his picture. These are Pinball machines from the 1970s made by Sega Japan. They were only ever sold in Japan and never exported.
Only a literal handful still exist today and only in Japan and only in one Japanese museum in the entire world.
Sega Japan built these wonderful custom crafted mechanical pinball machines with features you STILL don't see in modern pinball machines. Really fantastic designs, and great ideas for ease of maintenance. Sega was really great with innovation and technology.
Sega Japan wanted to compete with American pinball manufacturers and show the world they could make pinball too.
Unfortunately Sega Japan SEVERELY underestimated how much maintenance Pinball machines need. They couldnt provide enough spare parts to their customers. Sega Japan did not have the industrial capacity at the time to make enough replacement pinball parts for arcades across Japan.
Because of this, most of Sega pinballs could not be kept in good working condition in Japanese arcades. So almost all arcade owners retired the machines from arcades and threw them in the dumpster. All of them are gone. No one thought to save them. And they were never exported outside Japan.
Only one collector saved his pinball machines. And literally the only place on Earth you can play these near extinct Sega Pinballs is one museum in Japan run by single collector. He's keeps a few machines in storage for parts, but even he's not sure how much longer he can keep these Dinosaur machines running due to lack of spare parts and they are 50 years old now.
At least cry over something serious that's been lost.
Look at his picture. These are Pinball machines from the 1970s made by Sega Japan. They were only ever sold in Japan and never exported.
Only a literal handful still exist today and only in Japan and only in one Japanese museum in the entire world.
Sega Japan built these wonderful custom crafted mechanical pinball machines with features you STILL don't see in modern pinball machines. Really fantastic designs, and great ideas for ease of maintenance. Sega was really great with innovation and technology.
Sega Japan wanted to compete with American pinball manufacturers and show the world they could make pinball too.
Unfortunately Sega Japan SEVERELY underestimated how much maintenance Pinball machines need. They couldnt provide enough spare parts to their customers. Sega Japan did not have the industrial capacity at the time to make enough replacement pinball parts for arcades across Japan.
Because of this, most of Sega pinballs could not be kept in good working condition in Japanese arcades. So almost all arcade owners retired the machines from arcades and threw them in the dumpster. All of them are gone. No one thought to save them. And they were never exported outside Japan.
Only one collector saved his pinball machines. And literally the only place on Earth you can play these near extinct Sega Pinballs is one museum in Japan run by single collector. He's keeps a few machines in storage for parts, but even he's not sure how much longer he can keep these Dinosaur machines running due to lack of spare parts and they are 50 years old now.
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