Zaccaria (company)

Zaccaria, (later briefly reorganized under Mr. Game before ending production) was an Italian company of pinball and arcade machines that existed in Bologna from 1974 - 1988.^[1] The factory was sold to tecnoplay.^[2]

History

The company was founded as a manufactory for pinball arcade games in Bologna by the three brothers Marino, Franco and Natale Zaccaria. The logo consists of their initials. Zaccaria was led by Marino Zaccaria, a former manager of a bar near Bologna.^[2]

At their best time, Zaccaria was the third largest company of pinball machines in the world after Bally and Williams. The company also entered into the video arcade game sector in the late 1970s. Therefore they licensed games and developed some games with their own designs.^[2]

There are at least 47 different Zaccaria pinball machines known to exist.^[3][4]

Digital recreations

Zaccaria Pinball
Developer(s)	A.S.K. Homework Game Development
Platform(s)	Android, iOS
Release date(s)	iOS WW March 26, 2013 Android WW February 21, 2015
Genre(s)	Pinball
Mode(s)	Single player

A.S.K. Homework Game Development released Zaccaria Pinball for Android and iOS that consists of digital recreations of classic Zaccaria pinball machines.

Digital pinball machines

As of early 2015 there are 30 digital tables released.

• Aerobatics
• Blackbelt
• Circus
• Clown
• Combat
• Devil Riders
• Earth Wind Fire
• Farfalla
• Fire Mountain
• Future World
• Hot Wheels
• House of Diamonds
• Locomotion
• Magic Castle
• Mexico ’86
• Moon Flight
• Mystic Star
• Pinball Champ '82
• Pool Champion
• Robot
• Shooting the Rapids
• Soccer Kings
• Space Shuttle
• Spooky
• Star God
• Star's Phoenix
• Strike
• Time Machine
• Winter Sports
• Zankor

Company Mr. Game

Zaccaria was briefly reorganized under the label Mr. Game before ending production.^[1] The company Mr. Game produced pinball machines from 1988 until 1990.^[8][9][10]

Mr. Game pinball machines

• Dakar (1988)
• Fast Track
• Mac Attack (1989)
• Motor Show (1989)
• Sofficini Dakar
• World Cup '90 (1990)

Successor tecnoplay

After bankruptcy, the factory in Bologna was sold to tecnoplay in San Marino, that produced pinball machines from 1987 - 1989 and is still in business as an importer, reseller and maintainer of pinball machines, spare parts, arcade and vending machines and other amusement games. Tecnoplay is managed by Mauro Zaccaria, the son of Marino Zaccaria, one of the founder of the company Zaccaria.^[2][11][12]

tecnoplay pinball machines

• Devil King (1987)
• Scramble (1987)
• X-Force (1987)
• Space Team (1989)
• Hi-Ball (1989)

See also

• Playmatic, a former Spanish manufacturer of pinball machines

References

Further reading

• Fabio Rossi. Dizionario dei Videogame. Milano, Garzanti, 1993. ISBN 88-11-90422-6
• Tristan Donovan. Replay - The History of Video Games. Yellow Ant, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9565072-0-4

External links

• Zaccaria at The Internet Pinball database
• Zaccaria Forum and Database
• List of Zaccaria pinball machines
• Zaccaria arcade machines
• Zaccaria company information
• Zaccaria at The International Arcade Museum
• Zaccaria Pinball at MobyGames
• Official Zaccaria Pinball support site