<p><img width="200" height="200" border="0" align="right" alt="Galaxy Railways Pachinko" src="http://www.animemecha.com/images/stories/anime/dai_mf_tv.jpg" />Another Pachinko machine arrived today. This one is also a Sankyo/Bisty Lumina frame model, and a wonderful Matsumoto themed game. Galaxy Railways falls right in line with Matsumoto's usual visual mix of Galaxy Express 999 and Yamato - and the artwork shows it. The music and graphics are beautiful and the animated cut-scenes are stunning.

<img width="150" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="113" align="left" src="http://www.animemecha.com/images/stories/pachinko/part2/shiny.jpg" alt="New Pachinko Balls" />While the construction of the game is a time consuming process, it would be for nothing without the little silver pachinko balls. The king of pachinko balls is a company in Higashi-Osaka called Sato Tekkou who has been in the business for over 50 years. In part two we will look at the production of the pachinko ball itself and the long process that takes it from a spool of iron wire to the finished chrome balls.