Back Barrel Roll

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  1. By IPDB
    credit
    Bon MacDougall — Design
    credit
    C. Hale — Design
    gameplay_feature
    Vertical Up-Kickers ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Trap Holes ×17
    gameplay_feature
    Free Play Holes ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Multi-Level Playfield
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Allied Amusement Company
    ipdb_id
    179
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/179/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/179/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/179/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/179/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/179/image-6.png"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    Trap holes (17), Free Play holes (2), Vertical up-kickers (2). Two habitrails and three lighted "revolving reels" lift the balls off the playfield and deposit them into scoring pockets. A rollover in the upper playfield raises the draw bridges on the habitrails. Advertised as 44 inches long by 22 inches wide.
    ipdb.notes
    Compare the revolving reels with the Ferris wheel playfield action used later on Williams' 1988 'Cyclone' and Williams' 1991 'Hurricane'. According to the Automatic Age ad shown here, the game mechanics were built by a company named Wilhite. The cabinets were made by Morris Furniture Company. We have no other information about either company. One of the designers of this game, C. Hale, was reported in the October 1935 issue of Automatic Age, page 105, as a new employee of California Exhibit Company working as an Associate Engineer in their Research Department. In that article, he was described as previously having been an "associate developer" of this game and, before that, of PAMCO's 1934 'Major League'.
    month
    2
    player_count
    1
    reward_type
    Free Play
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    year
    1935