Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (1 field)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Kickers used IPDB Trap Holes ×21 used
Sources agree (7 fields)
- credit
- Sam Gensburg — Design IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 3 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1935 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 5703 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 209 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["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"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 6 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 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. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 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. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog chicago-coin-machine-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog beam-lite used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Beam-Lite used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog beam-lite used