Sources
Contributors to this record: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (GameFormat), Flipcommons Catalog.
- description
- Flipcommons AI Descriptions (GameFormat)A **cue game** is a coin-operated table on which the player drives the ball with a hand-held cue, in the manner of pool or billiards, rather than launching it with a plunger. The form runs from carom and golf novelties of the early 1930s such as [[manufacturer:karom-golf-table-corporation]]'s *[[title:karom-golf]]* (1931), on which "Real golf balls are used",[1] through the electric pool tables the pinball makers built in the mid-1950s, opened by [[manufacturer:chicago-coin]]'s *[[title:automatic-pool]]* (1955), "the first electric pool game in the industry",[2] to [[manufacturer:us-billiards-inc]]'s *[[title:electro-pool]]* (1966), "A pool table with a pinball-style backbox".[3]
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- 11Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Cue GameFlipcommons Catalog
- status
- activeFlipcommons Catalog
- slug
- cue-gameFlipcommons Catalog
Citations
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #1348
Real golf balls are used.
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #5082
the first electric pool game in the industry
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6397
A pool table with a pinball-style backbox.