Bingo
pinballs
Created
07-04-2020
When
I started following the games and saw all of the history in Europe, I started
wondering about other
Continents
and Countries ….for some reason, for South America, I suspected that the games
had made their
way
down into Peru, Brazil, and Argentina ~
So I started searching and I am glad I did`
This
company below “Sacoa” is still in
business and today and I see that they have a few photos from the 50s posted`
I
now wonder if they have others, I think I will email them and find out ~
That would be great`
(2010)
Argentina Distributor Operator
It was 1957 when the
visionary Mauricio Mochkovsky and his son Jorge started the company, operating
jukeboxes and bally bingos in bars and sports clubs in Argentina. Later, sons
Alex and Ricardo joined in, and in 1969 the company opened its first Sacoa
Family Entertainment Center in Mar del Plata, which was a huge success, before
the word FEC was ever used in the States. Third generation -Jorge's sons,
Sebastian, Pol and Andres- made its mark on the evolution of a company that
quickly became the largest entertainment operator in the country, and is
nowadays a household name in Argentina, with over twenty centers all over the
country. In the early '90s, Jorge realized they needed a much better way to
control the business, keep track of the revenue, rotate games wisely, modify
prices to compensate for inflation, and avoid theft. The solution began to take
shape, and by 1993 the first Sacoa Entertainment store to replace the
traditional tokens for a computerized magnetic debit card system went on-line.
The almost immediate 30% revenue-rise derived in the system being installed at
all their centers around the country in less than a year. The system's hardware
and software were developed and manufactured by a sister company called Sacoa
Playcard Systems which initially sourced all Sacoa FECs and soon started
exporting to other countries. Being experienced operators and having their own
locations to test new system features and see the results immediately helped in
bringing customer operators a sense of…
(2020)
….courtesy
of Playmeter Magaizne`
Yes
I agree, that sentence reads a bit odd, but I think those pins with no-flippers
were Bingos`
http://danny.cdyn.com/sacoa.htm
…it
would be great if they had some old pictures of some of the Bingos that made it
down there in the 50s`
~