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Contributors to this record: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer), Flipcommons Catalog.
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- Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer)Northwest Coin Machine Company was a Chicago manufacturer active chiefly in 1931 and 1932, when pinball was still finding its commercial form. Its seven known titles are all [[technology-generation:pure-mechanical]] and include compact novelty pieces such as [[title:stop-and-sock-2]], [[title:fan-tan]], [[title:skippy]], and [[title:spoofus]], alongside the paired [[title:hi-lo-junior]] and [[title:hi-lo-senior]], which show the company working in both countertop and larger pin-table formats. The surviving record suggests a firm very much embedded in the rough-and-ready competitive culture of early Depression-era pinball. Northwest's games borrowed freely from popular ideas of the day, and the company's [[title:goofus-2]] was reportedly retitled [[title:spoofus]] after legal pressure connected to [[manufacturer:bally]]. Its history therefore illustrates an essential fact about the 1932 market: small Chicago makers were moving quickly, imitating one another freely, and improvising around legal as well as commercial pressures as the new industry took shape.
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- Northwest Coin Machine CompanyFlipcommons Catalog
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- northwest-coin-machine-companyFlipcommons Catalog