ENADA SPRING HOSTS EXHIBITIONS AND 'TILT!', THE COIN-OP MUSEUM

Rimini 15th March 2010 . ENADA SPRING is hosting the no-profit association TILT!, founded in Bologna by a group of fans of coin-op machines (mainly pinball machines and video games, but also juke-boxes, antique slot machines and more) to give an official character to its activity of historical research on these machines.

Through the years, the Bologna association´s activity has made a name for itself at international level, to the point that the Web site www.tilt.it is visited every day by people all over the world. What was initially a simple exhibition of a collection led to real evening classes for restoration, repair techniques and fault tracing, which have met with great interest. As well, of course, as normal tournaments and contests, carried out on machines of all periods, which, thanks to their popularity, bring together young and elderly fans of coin-op amusement.
Through time, the Tilt! collection expanded: from the actual machines themselves to handbooks and technical documentation, passing through brochures and original advertising and promotional material, videos and audiovisuals on the topic. On this issue, there is a vast particularly interesting library; over 450 Italian and foreign publications, some no longer in print and therefore very rare, which are available for free consultation by anybody requesting to do so. They are also often used as reference books by university students preparing their degree theses.
The value of this collection was acknowledged in 2008 by the UNESCO, which include a link to www.tilt.it on its Web site, indicating the association´s library as being of great interest for scholars or other people studying the history of the Italian and international coin-op world.
Now, fifteen years after its foundation, the Tilt! association and the site that represents it are famous in Italy and abroad as reference points for everything to do with coin-op games in Italy at non-professional level. This is also thanks to the continuous activities open to the public that Tilt! hold constantly.

At ENADA SPRING the Tilt! association, which has been sponsored by SAPAR, will present the design for a Museum of Coin-op Games, already submitted to the Municipality of Bologna, and part of its collection (Hall A1, Stand 30).

At TOTEM SAIL (Hall C7 . Stand 149), it will be possible to admire a new exhibition dedicated to games and gaming by Amato Patriarca, an artist trained in Milan, where he gained his first experience as a painter and as a fashion and costume designer. Patriarca then followed his instinct as a tireless traveller and culture ´accumulator,´ moving between Europe, America, Australia and Indonesia, attracting the attention of the public and critics, thanks above all to the originality of his painting technique, with which puts the style of publicity and graphics on canvas. The theme of this year´s exhibition is ´A Master´s Win & Artist´s Games´. The exhibition and its catalogue also intend emphasizing the commitment of Totem Sail, AAMS, Providers and Concessionaires in support of gaming and sport and, at the same time, showing the value of amusement intended as an important element of day to day life.

Once again this year, one of the big attractions will be the exhibition of period gaming and amusement machines from the Morlacchi collection, with about twenty units on show in Hall C1 (Stand 108). The following examples should catch visitors´ attention. There is the 100 year-old Mills ´Commercial Ben Hur´ wheel machine, which was in San Francisco saloons in the days of the Gold Rush. Among the other slot machines on show, the Watling Rol-A-Top from 1935, the most widespread and best-known in the Thirties, the 1933 Daval Gum Vendor, one of the smallest ever manufactured, the Jenning ´Sun Chief´ (1948), the one most frequently used in the first casinos in Reno and Las Vegas. Then there´s the Stafford Nickelodeon automatic piano, with an eight-piece ´band´ inside, the 1948 ´Pla-Mor´ juke box with 78 rpm records manufactured by Packard, a company owned by Homer Capeheart (US Republican Senator from 1944 to 1962) or the better known 1955 Seeburg ´V200´ and the 1962 Ami ´Continental 2´, which offer an insight on the various stages of audio entertainment. Pinball machines will also be there to be admired: from those of the late Fifties, such as the Williams ´Jig Saw´ from 1957, the year in which it was prohibited in Italy, since it was considered gambling, to those from the mid Sixties, such as the Gottlieb ´World Fair´. Also in the spotlight, a Midway ´Duck Hunter´ shooting gallery from the Seventies.
Petrol pumps from Forties and Fifties US gas stations, a Coca Cola chest cooler, ornaments and decorative items that form the setting for one of the most beautiful unique collections of this kind.



ENADA SPRING 2010 AT A GLANCE
Date: March 17-22; Edition: 22nd; Category: International exhibition; Frequency: annual; Admittance: Trade members only, payment at entrance. Full-price ticket: 15. Reduced rate ticket: 2 online for trade members; Hours: 10 am - 6 pm, last day 10 am - 4 pm; Web site: www.enadaprimavera.it


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