Chinese-region made Pachi
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A chance purchase of this strange-looking Bemstar, then unidentified, lead me down a long rabbit-hole, linking this remarkably rare Taiwanese-made pachi to one of the most common ET bootlegs of the 1980s and some spectacularly rare and peculiarly innovative Star Wars inspired pachi, including a standing Jabba bounty-hunter and a nightmare-fuel Ewok with piercing blue…
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There are a few rare Pachi that I always have one eye on the Japanese market for – and by a strange stroke of fate both this exceedingly rare Taiwanese tortoise and his bull associate recently appeared in sales in Japan in the course of a single week. The bull was unidentified there, while the…
Confessions of a Kaiju Hunter 