Brilliant Episode. I loved the stories and the news items. Much more fun listening to you guys than reading blogs etc. Do you think a 3 hour episode is on the cards ? Or maybe more frequent PODcasts under two hours.
Zaccaria were looking for an importer in the late early - mid 70's and because Dad is Italian, they asked him to be the distributor. He actually flew to Bologna (I think) to pen the agreement (while visiting family), but he found that the technical info was lacking. How do you fix the games without schematics ? So it never happened. It was offered again when Zaccaria released the SS range of games. From memory, it was given to "Leisure and Allied" for a short time.
It was an interesting time for Pinballs NOT produced in Chicago - Recel, Playmatic and Euroflip were often sited next to the Gottliebs, Williams and Ballys. I have boxes of parts from games that were parted out. I think there might be the old "Space Gambler" SS still floating around Melbourne somewhere !
Even with schematics Zac SS games are a headache as its done old school and shows the logic path NOT the actually chips used so AND is often used as NAND etc... my Dad loves it as he is Mr TTL, but I keep having to make notes and if I walk away for too long, ive forgotten what my notes mean..LOL
