Arcade video game machine found in old italian movie 1975

[sprazzi]

Watching an old movie from 1975 (amici miei) i just noticed an arcade machine set in a bar... Being this set in Italy i find it very peculiar... Does anyone know anything about it?

[VectorGamer]

Thread belongs in the arcade forum

 

Obviously a Pong clone/bootleg that time forgot. Hard to make out the control panel - does the wording say "Fuk-o-chaos"?

[sprazzi]

Lol I read rik-o-chess

[Good_Times]

Dunno, but that guy looks like the actor Paul Dooley....

 

[CatPix]

Very cool.

I heard there were lots of Arcade cabs liek that in Italy. made from consoles. Lots of them in France too

Edited July 6, 2017 by CatPix

[Eltigro]

Ric-o-chet, I think. Like a bullet ricochets.

[Eltigro]

Not the same cabinet as the movie, but...

 

[BassGuitari]

Not the same cabinet as the movie, but...

Sure about that? Looks the same to me.

 

(Anyway, what else could it be?)

 

[Eltigro]

Maybe it is... looking at it more... the one in the movie looks more washed out or something... not the rich dark wood grain like in the ad... maybe it is the same, though, and just a different angle and lighting or whatever... /shrug

[CatPix]

Well it's a 1975 movie, looks like a TV movie (or we're seeing a rip made in 1998) AND it appears to me the OP took a picture of his screen rather than a screenshot, resulting in a very blurry and washed out picture.

The colors might look off, but the shape is right. You can even see the edge of that large coin slot door.

There appears to be a large metallic thing in front of the cabinet, which might be what confuse you?

Edited July 7, 2017 by CatPix

[+Swami]

The one in the movie appears to have metallic panels on the top and woodgrain on the lower half; Plus some kind of water faucet looking this on the top. Otherwise the same cabinet.

[sprazzi]

Thanks, you guys a re amazing...didn't know the word "ricochet" or maybe i would have guessed it...

 

Anyway... so far I found this:

 

http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.it/2016/06/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of-nutting_21.html

 

and this:

 

https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13131

[Eltigro]

Yeah, I agree picture quality is probably making color and such difficult to tell. As far as being different, the bottom does look very similar or the same (marquee, controls, door, can even see the top of one of the legs), but the top looks off to me. The one from the movie seems to have perfectly square top corners while the one in the image I linked has side panels that seem to come up above the top of the monitor a bit. But it doesn't matter. It's close enough if not the same.

[CatPix]

Well, the top might look different because to make things simpler/save on weight, they removed the original 60 htz display and got a supply of Italian televisions that weren't exactly the same size.

That would save on shipping, on the need to protect the cabs from all kind of shocks, and probably lower import taxes.

Or they were made locally and the top was different, still because or the monitor.

[BigO]

I had a home console by "Ricochet" that I sold a few years back. I wonder if it's related.

http://atariage.com/forums/uploads/monthly_07_2014/post-12370-0-18397200-1405210510.jpg

[+-^CrossBow^-]

It is the same cabinet. The top only looks a bit different because the studio lights for the scene were very bright and the t-molding pretty shiny so it almost looks as if it has a chrome outline on the monitor, but I'm sure it doesn't. Also where the marquee is that is wood grain around it, but again due to very bright studio lighting it looks very washed out.

 

The metal trim under the marquee that looks out of place is in fact the control panel. The shot in the OP is pretty dead on angle wise so you can't see the top, but the black specs just above the metal strip are in fact the control spinners for moving the paddles.

 

I'd say that is for sure a Ric-O-Chet cabinet as appears in post #7 above.

Edited July 7, 2017 by -^Cro§Bow^-

[+Swami]

Now that I look at it again, it looks like the top right side of the cabinet has a lamp shade in the way that is white and the thing that looks like a faucet is the top of the lamp poking out the top of the lamp shade.

[+frankodragon]

Here's a much clearer version of the machine.

 

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[Eltigro]

Bartender sure picks his nose a lot...