Back Beacon

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  1. By IPDB
    credit
    Harry Stoner — Design
    credit
    Karl Knickerbocker — Design
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Stoner Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    208
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/208/image-12.jpg"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    10 balls for 5 cents. 2 kickers, 1 bell, 1 light. Battery powered via four 'power cells'. If balls are locked/dropped into both kickers, then another ball shot into the 'Shooter' hole will cause the kickers to knock the locked balls into higher scoring areas. Game advertised as 41 inches by 21 inches.
    ipdb.notes
    According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, this game was named after the manufacturer's local newspaper, the Aurora Beacon-News. The game pictured in the Billboard ad has a small vertical marquee that is not present on the other games pictured in this listing.
    month
    12
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    Flying
    theme
    Airplanes
    year
    1934