Recreativos Franco

Recreativos Franco is a Spanish pinball and gaming-machine manufacturer founded in Madrid in 1965 by brothers Joaquín and Jesús Franco Muñoz, who started out running coin-operated machines from a small workshop on Calle Hilarión Eslava and opened their own arcade in the city's Fuencarral district. The company began building its own machines in the early 1970s, starting with the pinball Mississippi in 1973, followed by Venus 5, Cabaret, Impacto, Cherokis, Dragoon, Jalisco and Alaska over the next several years. In the second half of the decade it launched a separate export brand, Interflip, selling four-player versions of its pinball machines abroad.