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description: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer) G. M. Laboratories, Incorporated was a Chicago manufacturer with a remarkably inventive but short-lived pinball presence in 1935 and 1936. Only eight titles are presently cataloged, yet the line is unusually rich in mechanical ideas: [[title:id:924]] uses multiball and a rotating carousel mechanism, [[title:id:3763]] turns scoring into a sequential golf challenge, [[title:id:4559]] combines captive balls and lighted action, and [[title:id:4799]] uses miniature kicking figures to send the ball toward the goal. With the exception of [[title:id:2796]], the company's output was predominantly [[technology-generation:id:1]]. That concentration of feature-driven designs gives G. M. Laboratories a profile larger than its production totals suggest. Its games belong to the mid-1930s moment when pinball makers were rapidly adding electricity, moving parts, and more elaborate rule concepts in order to stand out in a crowded Chicago market. Even without a long corporate history in pinball, G. M. Laboratories stands out as one of the period's more mechanically ambitious minor manufacturers. used
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