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These are those football themed bingo machines, I played one last year in Cambodia but had no idea what was going on because the writing was in Chinese. Apparently in China they have no idea what a pinball machine is, Mike from Homepin is doing pretty much all of his machines in his own factory so copies don't start turning up like when someone gets something made in China.
Quoted from flynnibus:To which someone would say... WHY? Creating PCBs is not their core competency and replicating all that manufacturing, skillset, and QA is just wasteful unless he plans on being a electronics assembly company that just happens to do pinballs on the side.
If you don't do it yourself, there will be bootleg copies coming out of the factory that you get to do it. They're also producing licensed Hankin cocktail tables and replacement pinball boards, so the economy of scale would be working out ok.
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