Hi Kneissl and everybody!

I own 6 pinball's manufactured by Taito:

Shark
Hawkman (Phatom)
Lady Luck (Mata Hari)
Zarza (Xenon)
Speed Test (Vector)
Snake Machine (Devils Dare)

Rio de Janeiro (Rio Pinball Clube) and São Paulo (Pinball Clube SP) both have places were collectors leave their collections.

As far as I know, Taito Brasil copied Stern, Gottlieb, Bally, Willians and Zaccaria.
Believe it or not, they created their own hardware and software for all Machines.
It was incredible, because it was very consistence and reliable.

I can make a video showing one title working and pull up the PF to show you guys how crazy it is.

I did an old Video for Rio Pinball years ago.

I'll look at it and share the link to start the conversation!

One more thing...

In IL, 2 collectors does have:

Shark
Polar Explorer (Pinball Champ - Zaccaria)
Vortex (Blackout)

Found the video!
13 years ago!

Sorry about the bad English and accent.
Nowadays is a little bit better...

Those used to be our tokens!
Pretty common on that days.
Because of inflationary currency, it was impossible to use coins...

Sure. I'll take pictures and videos to share.
Probably next week...

That's the cool part!
Zarza doesn't speak.
Neither Drakor (gorgar)
But Lady luck speaks a lot!

So, even you think they use the same artwork, sometimes the rules are different.

Sure!
It was very common to see an arcade or pinball on every corner.

All malls use to have tons of games.
In the begging of 90's, the government reopen the importations after almost 17/20 years.

So the flipperamas, gain a lot of extra time because of that.

Home consoles were rare and basic rich families use to have on the beginning.
One more reason to arcades survived more time here in Brazil.