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  1. By IPDB
    credit
    Roy Parker — Art
    credit
    Jerry Koci — Design
    gameplay_feature
    Kick-Out Holes ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Passive Bumpers ×11
    gameplay_feature
    Flippers ×2
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    225
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    ipdb.model_number
    109
    ipdb.notable_features
    5 balls for 5 cents. Flippers (2), Passive bumpers (11), Kick-out holes (2).
    ipdb.notes
    'Bermuda' is the first flipper machine made by Chicago Coin. According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 1, designer Jerry Koci believed that Chicago Coin had invented the EM flipper before Gottlieb. While working on a baseball game in the summer of 1947, he had asked that a bat be put on a pinball machine. Chicago Coin didn't go for the idea and this decision allowed Gottlieb to be the first. Koci pursued for a patent on his EM flipper. Patent #2,520,283 [PIVOTAL BALL RETURN MEANS FOR PIN GAMES] filed January 30, 1948. Granted August 29, 1950 to Jerry Koci, Inventor. See also Chicago Coin's 1948 'Bermuda Roll Down'.
    month
    11
    player_count
    1
    production_quantity
    2500
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    World Places
    year
    1947