Rotor table games - over 70 years ago?

[SlickChick]

I've seen photos of 1930s games before, but nothing quite like this. I stumbled on this Confucius Say rotor table game and was surprised to see it was made in the mid 30s -- a pinball game that can rotate around to different players?  How cool is that?

http://www.coinopgamemuseum.com/games/confuciussay/confuciussay.html

You guys are probably familiar with them, but it was a new concept to me.  Then Rod showed me a You Tube video of a more modern version.  I guess they're pretty rare, has anyone seen one?

[GORGAR 1]

Awesome read thanks for posting-amazing what was around really..

Peter

[ajlaird]

Fascinating write-up; seems like this one was ahead of it's time, perhaps.

[illawarra_steelers]

They made 6 different games in total....I didn't know about these until reading Mike Shalhoub's last book. Mike Eady has his Cross Town from 1935 in there on page 17

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=271&searchtype=advanced

[dj10555]

I also recently came across a Midway 1978 Rotation VIII manual. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2019
This one will automatically rotate the playfield inside the game using a motor.

[SlickChick]

I also recently came across a Midway 1978 Rotation VIII manual. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2019
This one will automatically rotate the playfield inside the game using a motor.

That's awesome! Rod71 posted a YouTube video of this baby in action in this thread:
http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=2204.0

I'd love to see one up close and personal.

[ktm450]

Geat link