Captain Herlock is our latest arrival of what has been the finest Pachinko selection in our 25+ years. Captain Herlock is yet another amazing machine from Sankyo electronics. It is for good reason they are the largest Pachinko manufacturing company in the world. The Sankyo engineers designed this machine with the 49 year history of the Adventures of Herlock in mind. The machine has a huge High Definition LCD, not one but two stellar animation processes in the Herlock Pirate Ship and the Ships Wheel. The Pirate Ship lowers down to cover approximately half of the Hi Def video, begins a spectacular light show, starts swaying left to right as if it is trying to avoid an enemy attack. As the Pirate Ship is moving the Ship Wheel starts a light show of it's own and begins rotating. This action gives you the sense that the Ship Wheel is really controlling the movement of the Pirate Ship.

       Sankyo was careful in the design of Captain Herlock making sure the machine is suitable for ALL AGES! Ages 3 to 103 can equally enjoy the playing of this machine. Sankyo went overboard on the truly outstanding light patterns of Captain Herlock. There are so many lights on the machine, Play Board, and case that you can play this in the dark. Sankyo also incorporated Player Interaction with the Chance button pictured above. You will be prompted through the Hi Def Video when to press the Chance button to make your choices. You must make wise choices or you will not advance to the higher levels. We could not close this summary without noting the Full Range Stereo music and sound effects. They equal or exceed any Pachinko Pinball machine on the market today. What a great Christmas present for 2007!

      We present the following information to assist you in the playing of the machine as there are Reach sequences of all of the characters. Please take the time to read this section. You will understand all of the story line with this knowledge.

      The Captain Herlock Pachinko features 8 characters from the cast and Crew of the Arcadia that covered an amazing 49 year run. One of the all time favorite series ever produced! In movies that are available on DVD, a long standing TV series that covered an incredible 64 episodes, and countless comic books.

      Both "Harlock" and "Herlock" are common translations of the Japanese name into Roman script and both have been used in both Japan and America. "Harlock" has been used more often, but some recent American releases have used the "Herlock" spelling.

      The series presented a story arc in which a huge black metal sphere strikes Tokyo and ancient Mayan legends appear to be walking the Earth again. The invaders turn out to be the Mazone, a race of vegetable-based, Modigliani-necked women who explored Earth in the mythic past and are now back to reclaim it. Only Herlock and his mismatched crew are brave enough and capable enough to face the enemy.

      The outcast Herlock is well aware of the plight of the Mazone, a refugee people fleeing a dying planet, and finds neither pleasure nor vindication in his battles nor in his final, melancholic victory. Some of the mechanical design on the series is strongly reminiscent of the first Star Wars film, even if the original Herlock manga predates the American movie, prompting some controversy as to "who stole what".

      Earth has achieved a vast starfaring civilization, but is slowly and steadily succumbing to ennui or despair, often due to defeat and subjugation by a foreign invader. Rising against the general apathy, Herlock denies defeat and leads an outlaw crew aboard his starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth's oppressors.

CREW OF THE ARCADIA

Captain Herlock     The archetypical romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life. He is as noble as he is taciturn, rebellious, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes, whether they be earthborn or alien.

Tadashi Daiba      Daiba is the audience surrogate, the viewer's gateway to Herlock's world. The 14-year-old son of a scientist who was killed by the Mazone, he joined the Arcadia crew following the death of his father.

Kei Yuki     A sixteen year-old human woman with blonde hair who was rescued by Herlock when he raided a ship that was transporting her as a prisoner back to Earth following an assault by her upon a military officer who had belittled her father's death.

Queen Emeraldas     A space pirate much like Herlock, she bears a scar under her left eye. She makes her first animated appearance in the 1978 Galaxy Express 999 film.

Yattaran     Herlock's first mate on the Arcadia, he is usually portrayed as comic relief in the series, but when a battle against alien threats become imminent, he will be at the captain's side.

Mieme     A mysterious alien woman with long blue hair who thrives on alcohol and possesses psychic and psionic powers, she is the last survivor of her home planet Jura, from which Harlock saved her following its devastation in a nuclear attack and the subsequent slaughter of its surviving inhabitants by carnivorous plants created and brought to the planet by the Mazone.

Tochiro Oyama     An old friend of Harlock's, he was the architect and chief builder of the Arcadia. He died of illness prior to the events of the series, but his consciousness survives within the ship's computer.

Doctor Zero     Chief Medical Officer. Like Yattaran, he serves as comic relief when he argues with the ship's cook, Miss Masu, over his raids of Masu's kitchen to get his beverage of choice, sake. He has a pet cat called Mi-kun which was injured and apparently dying and was later brought with Zero on board the Arcadia.

• Animated Pirate Ship
• Latest state-of-the-art Pachinko Technology
• True range stereo sound
• Computer controlled light displays on cabinet
• Antimated Ships Wheel
• Huge 9 ½" High Definition video
• Interactive play
• Computerized light show on bonus and jackpot play
• Ball shooter pause button
• Animation imbedded video clips
• Video assistance for Interactive play
• Multiple Reach mini clips
• Jackpot play
• Big Chance Jackpot play
• Super Jackpot play

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