- credit
- Sam Gensburg — Design
- gameplay_feature
- Kickers
- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×21
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 209
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/Playfield_wiring.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/Playfield_detail.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/Overall_view.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/Ball_lift.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/209c.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/209.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/209/image-13.jpg"]
- ipdb.model_number
- 6
- ipdb.notable_features
- Trap holes (21), Kicker (1). No outhole. Any balls that reach the very bottom of the playfield are kicked upwards into an enclosed scoring area. Used 8 batteries.
- ipdb.notes
- According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, the colored light bulb covers used on this game was an idea that Sam Gensberg copied from Great States Mfg. Co.'s 1932 'Flash Ball'. His competitors, whose games all used naked, clear glass bulbs, never learned from him where he obtained these bulb covers, not knowing that they were simple colored pharmaceutical gel capsules cut in half. Beam-Lite would become the second most successful game in Chicago Coin history.
- month
- 3
- player_count
- 1
- production_quantity
- 5703
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1935