This is a pretty crazy short film by Mika and Aki Kaurismäki. Not too sure what is going on... it seems sortof post-apocalyptic, but not really. Anyway, it follows a guy, his friend and his girlfriend playing lots of pinball and some pool and talking nonsense. Hey, what happened to “Jackpot 1”?
In a café, the friend plays a few seconds of Galaxy (Stern, 1980)...
...and then a few seconds of a Harlem Globetrotters On Tour (Bally, 1978)...
Aside from an old jukebox, there’s also a type of Finnish slot machine, called payazzo (or pajatso or jasso). This one appears to be a "50 pennin" model, which was manufactured by Raha-automaattiyhdistys (RAY) beginning in 1967. The player deposits coins and flicks them using a control. The coin bounces around and if it ends up in one of the winning slots, the column of coins drops out the payout chute. I believe these are also known in English as drop case machines...
The trio goes back to their apartment where they have a jukebox and apparently their favorite pinball machine: Flip-Flop (Bally, 1974)...
Following an explosion, their machine stops working, so they go to an apparently abandoned arcade where they find a pair of Flip-Flop’s, just like the one in their living room!
They love the game so much, they play it on their pickup truck...
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