- gameplay_feature
- Snap Traps ×10
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 5724
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5724/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5724/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5724/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5724/image-4.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.notable_features
- Snap traps (10). The playfield automatic totalizer counts the score for the player. The "Mechanical Book-keeper" totals audits for the operator.
Patent DE 90,923 [GAME APPARATUS] filed June 17, 1933. Granted October 24, 1933 to R.T. Maloney.
- ipdb.notes
- According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 1, 'Automat' was to be the next progression after Airway of February 1933, but its production was delayed when Bally extended the production of Airway in June 1933, and delayed again by the payout game Rocket in September 1933 which used Automat's playfield design and totalizer, and delayed again by Rocket's non-payout version Blue Ribbon of December 1933 which was essentially the same game as Automat. With the necessary production of New Improved Rocket of 1934, Automat was by then out of date and not placed into production.
The images in this listing have no actual Automat pictures, but provide text promoting the game.
Bally did make a later game with the same name. See Bally's 1936 'Automat'.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Auto Racing