{"rewrite":{"id":"r_635f8e3325ea72cd2f3f0a82","clusterId":"c_a5323ef7bb23d61faa496ed3","slug":"taito-restores-crown-603-crane-game-for-amusement-expo-2026","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Taito Restores Crown 603 Crane Game For AMUSEMENT EXPO 2026","summary":"Taito has restored a Crown 603, the successor to its 1965 Crown 602 crane game, and will exhibit it at its AMUSEMENT EXPO 2026 booth. The machine was found through 4,400 pieces of information and had been sitting unused in a warehouse. TAITO TECH rebuilt aged wiring and power circuits and repaired the cabinet. Taito says the machine will be kept as a cultural asset.","whyItMatters":"The Crown 603 is the surviving hardware of the line that replaced imported crane games in Japan, and Taito is now treating a coin-op cabinet as a preserved cultural asset rather than scrap.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe search began with a public relations employee who had only seen the Crown 602 in photographs and wanted to see the real machine. The Crown 602 itself has not been found. Its direct successor, the Crown 603, turned up through 4,400 pieces of information, privately owned and covered in dust in a warehouse.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTAITO TECH, Taito\u0026#39;s technical service division, found no major failures in the internal structure. Engineers rebuilt aged wiring and power distribution circuits and repaired and repainted scratches on the cabinet and decorations. The work was done by trial and error because the machine\u0026#39;s structure differs from current crane games, and Taito says the knowledge gained will be passed on for other repair cases.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Taito found the Crown 603 through 4,400 pieces of information and kept it as a cultural asset. Calling it that is a different fate from scrapping it, and it puts a preservation claim on a machine built to be used.","twitterPost":"Taito is keeping the restored Crown 603 as a cultural asset, not returning it to service. The machine built to be played gets preserved instead.","threadsPost":"Taito found the Crown 603 through 4,400 pieces of information, sitting unused in a warehouse, and Taito TECH rebuilt its aged wiring and power circuits. Keeping it as a cultural asset is a preservation claim, and it settles the machine as an artifact rather than a working cabinet.","newsletterBlurb":"Taito has brought a Crown 603 crane game back to operating condition and will exhibit it at its AMUSEMENT EXPO 2026 booth. The 1966 machine, successor to the 1965 Crown 602, was located through 4,400 pieces of information and had been stored unused. TAITO TECH handled the overhaul, and Taito says the machine will be preserved as a cultural asset.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Inside\",\"url\":\"https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2026/10/29/190035.html\",\"title\":\"Revived after about 60 years! 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