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Apologies for the delayed response. I should be able to ship to Canada from my web store. If shipping isn't offered to Canada on the site, drop me a message. Cheers!

Welcome aboard! Thanks for your comment. There are a couple of  dev logs about the code breaking bits. The comments there might help.

Oh wow, good finds! I wonder if this game is coincidental or whether a full merch rollout was planned alongside the pinball machine.

Excellent! That's one thing I can cross off my to-do list. Thanks for letting me know!

Just added this image of a handheld lcd game in this thread.

This caught my eye as I was trawling archive.org for japanese pinball links.

If I'm not mistaken, that's an image from Tomie isn't it?

I can't find any info about the device.

I just had the thought: what if SUPER-R-U features a mechanic or certain technology that Stern later acquired? Then when it came to developing a Junji Ito machine, they might have chosen to implement it (same for that optional install in the Playboy manual)?

You've made me realise the current draft pdf of cards has a typo! Soul Sapper is meant to have a different effect ("Willlpower cards have -1").

But otherwise, this is good advice with Gang of Grave robbers!

Ha incredible!

what did you mean about the date, by the way?

For sure, I'll do more process videos in the future when I can!

Good job. It doesn't sound like English to me. Can't place it.

Here's the result of some late night trawling. Kind of wish I didn't find it right before going to bed.

This is spectacular and much needed!

🤯

Part of the reason I want to believe a Junji Ito pinball machine exists is because it would be such a good theme.

What features would you like the machine to have?

For me, I want there to be 3 of these dotted around that lock in your ball if you hit them.

When you hit the 3rd one you unlock multiball. Inspired by The Enigma of Amigara Fault obviously.

That's an interesting angle, for sure!

That's an ominous image. It kind of looks like a slice of a pinball. It's making me feel funny looking at it...

Imagine a destructive pinball machine, that slices and scars the balls through play. Shudder.

I dug into this just briefly and the closest distributor I could find was one in Singapore. Can't recall the name, I'd have to find it again. I was surprised not to find a Japanese one in that era though.

I've been checking out Stern's manual for the Playboy pinball machine in case it turned up anything. Check this out...

Do you see it there on the right, the last one in the install menu? I yelled and woke up the dog.

Not so much a lead, but something that this all reminded me of: Pinball by Haruki Murakami.

I remembered suddenly that this was one of the things that set off my obsession with pinball in the first place. I flicked through my copy just now and came to this bit:

“While you’re playing yourself out in lonesome dissipation in front of a pinball machine, someone else might be reading through Proust. Still another might be engaged in heavy petting with a girlfriend at a drive-in theater showing of Paths of Courage. The one could well become a writer, witness to the age; the others, a happily married couple. Pinball machines, however, won’t lead you anywhere.

Just the replay light. Replay, replay, replay...”

A cautionary tale for us maybe...

I absolutely have this. When I stumbled on this image yesterday I thought, damn, that's exactly how I feel right now.

https://bsky.app/profile/sfencyclopedia.bsky.social/post/3me5kwqmqbc2e

Wow that feels like something

'twisted man' feels so sinister

I haven't touched it!

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Also, the comment "There never was a machine like that." seems so strangely definitive.

I really want this t-shirt now!

I kinda dread to think what a Junji Ito machine does when it senses you tilting...

"some ebay hunting dug up an old manual" - Hounskull

I figured we could collate any visual evidence of the pinball machine here.

Anyone else seen this before?