{"id":4242,"date":"2016-10-31T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2017-08-04T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:38:15","slug":"korona-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2016\/10\/31\/korona-world\/","title":{"rendered":"KORONA WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving the Iwakura shopping centre, we proceeded to our second pinball location &#8211; Korona World Komaki. It only took around 8 minutes by car.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Korona World\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Korona World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Korona World is a big amusement centre in Komaki. Through a collaboration with the Japan Game Museum, the centre has set up a dedicated area for retro games since early this year. \u00a0It is a so-called \u201cmini-JGM\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There are six pinballs and some vintage video games<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gemini (<\/em><em>1978<\/em>Gottlieb)<\/li>\n<li><em>Surfing<\/em> (1972, Sega Japan)<\/li>\n<li><em>Carnival<\/em> (1971, Sega Japan)<\/li>\n<li><em>Playboy<\/em> (1978 ,Bally)<\/li>\n<li><em>Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle<\/em> (1993, Data East)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Addams Family<\/em> (1992, Bally)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/2.jpg\" alt=\"The six pinballs\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The six pinballs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Cocktail video games\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cocktail video games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was very exciting and amazing for me to see the <em>Gemini<\/em> game. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipdb.org\/machine.cgi?id=995\" target=\"_new\">ipdb.org<\/a>, only 300 units were produced in 1978.\u00a0 I believe, it is one of the few still functional in the world.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/4.jpg\" alt=\"Gottlieb's Gemini\" width=\"400\" height=\"544\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gottlieb&#8217;s Gemini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Again, I could get high score and 3 replay credits on my first play of this game.\u00a0 (^o^)\/<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/5.jpg\" alt=\"High score!\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High score!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I believe the <em>Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle<\/em> game might have been acquired from the Mono Mania Shopping Centre, so this is my second time seeing it within four years.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/6.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle &amp; Friends\" width=\"400\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle &amp; Friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another amazing game is the Sea Raider (1969).\u00a0 As I understand it, the game was totally not functional when it was first delivered to the JGM. \u00a0It eventually became functional after JGM spent a lot of hard work and passion on it.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ImageBorder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/korona-world\/7.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Raider\" width=\"550\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea Raider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some additional information about Korona World Komaki:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Address: \u00a0\u3012\uff14\uff14\uff16\uff0d\uff10\uff10\uff12\uff12\u00a0Katayama mom Komaki, Aichi Prefecture 181\u00a0 (\u3012\uff14\uff14\uff16\uff0d\uff10\uff10\uff12\uff12\u00a0 \u611b\u77e5\u770c\u5c0f\u7267\u5e02\u9593\u3005\u7247\u5c71181)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation: 15 minutes by bus from Iwakura train station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Business hours: 10am-midnight (weekdays) and 9am-midnight (Sat\/Sun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.korona.co.jp\/sp\/game\/kom\/index.asp\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/www.korona.co.jp\/sp\/game\/kom\/index.asp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Comments: the condition of all the pinballs was excellent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving the Iwakura shopping centre, we proceeded to our second pinball location &#8211; Korona World Komaki. It only took around 8 minutes by car. Korona World is a big amusement centre in Komaki. Through a collaboration with the Japan Game Museum, the centre has set up a dedicated area for retro games since early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,53,204],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sites","tag-aichi","tag-japan","tag-korona-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}