Just thought I'd share my amazement at just coming back from a business trip and managing to get a complete Papillon (by a Spanish company) PLUS, from a completely different seller in another country, the backglass from the French version of a game with the same name, and amazingly similar backglass artwork (but completely different playfield).

The co-incidence is kind of shocking in a way... The seller of the French glass was taken aback a bit when I opened the rear door of my car to put the glass in when she was confronted with this 'alternate version' of what looked like the same game... plus the car stacked to the roof with pinballs managed to squeese 4 games in this Toyota Granvia on this trip!! (and still have a passenger seat).

there are no images of the Spanish version anywhere I can find on the net, and the IPDB doesn't even mention the game... so you see it first on Pinside

I'll be uploading all the images I have for the Spanish game to the IPDB as soon as I get them to make a page for it, and also to pinside... the playfield is kind of something special

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The French one is on the right, and the Spanish one on the left by the way...

I bet there's 100s to be honest... The Spanish were very prolific in the 80's I think, and a lot of stuff that got made was kept in Spain... and with all that hot Spanish blood influencing the artwork, there's some interesting stuff to be discovered!

I'm not planning to... the French one is just for gameroom decoration... I'll use the Spanish one in my game (since it's the Spanish game). Also, the French one won't fit in the head of the Spanish game because it's a completely different size

Here's a pic of the main artwork of the Spanish version playfield... you see it first on Pinside

I could hold a competition for best quote of what the guy's thinking

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Interesting romor Destruk... I'll have to ask my Spanish contact if he's heard this too...

This game is by Videodens... The French one is by Jeutel by the way...

As an interesting point, the playfield is covered with a plastic sheet about 4mm (1/8inch) thick, a bit like on Electra, but half as thick... The small dot in front of the woman's ribs is actually a matal clamp that fixes this plastic sheet to the playfield (to stop it bowing up in the middle). The problem is, if dirt gets between this plastic sheet and the playfield, it's a headhache to clean out (and this has happened at the edges)... Must check underneath and see if that clamp is pulled down by a nut or if it's a kind of rivet!!

Also, where you normally get obvious lens inserts, on this the lenses appears to be part of the artwork... like the green triangles pointing at the left standups, and the 5 blue rectangles on the entry to the left lane...

And a final bit of trivia; Papillon is French for Butterfly... but the Spanish is Mariposa (apparently!)... so clearly the Spanish stole the game and backglass artwork from the French and couldn't be bothered to change the game name to their own language

You already created a page for this game Robin after I sent you the basic info on it before I got hold of it... I'll also upload more pics when I have time...

That's very kind of you CFF, I like it and may try it for size later The Seawitch lady of your av is one of my favourite playfield women, I have this playfield decorating part of my store... she's hot... as drawings go!

I'm perplexed at what this vid might be of... shame I can't see it now... I've a very strict firewall at work

Pics:

http://pinside.com/pinball/archive/papillon-videodens/gallery

That's amazing LorenZ, really nice to see... now I want to track a copy of this album down just to have the artwork to o with the glass and the other game... and to hear the music of course, even if it's rubbish!

By the way, is there any connection between the album and the pinball name Papillon, apart from the central kissing figures looking like a butterfly that is...?