Back Bing O Reno

Sources

IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Conflicts resolved (2 fields)

theme
IPDB Pokerino used IPDB Bingo Flipcommons Catalog Poker used Flipcommons Catalog Bingo used
credit
IPDB Jack Firestone — Design IPDB Henry Grauf — Design Flipcommons Catalog Jack Firestone — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Henry Grauf — Design used

Sources agree (5 fields)

technology_generation
electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
month
11 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year
1954 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
5684 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (9 fields)

gameplay_feature
IPDB Trap Holes ×25 used
ipdb.corporate_entity_name
IPDB Scientific Machine Corporation used
ipdb.image_urls
IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-A1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-A2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5684/image-5.jpg"] used
ipdb.notes
IPDB Billboard articles at the time this game was introduced in 1954-55 state it was designed/developed by Henry Grauf who had a "pilot" game in his New Jersey arcade for five years before it was mass produced by Scientific. A Billboard article from Apr-6-1957 welcomes "veteran coin machine designer" Jack Firestone to the Irving Kaye Company and refers to him as being instrumental in designing Bing-O-Reno when he was previously at Scientific. used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB 6 balls per play. Trap holes (25). The player can buy one, two, or three bingo cards at 10 cents each. The player rolls the rubber balls down to the trap holes which light up corresponding numbers on backglass. Game advertised as 7 feet long and two feet wide. Cabinet is solid birch with a Formica top. used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog scientific-machine-corporation used
title
Flipcommons Catalog bing-o-reno used
name
Flipcommons Catalog Bing O Reno used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog bing-o-reno used