- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×6
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×3
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 5747
- ipdb.image_urls
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- ipdb.notable_features
- 1 or 2 balls per play (operator option). Pop bumpers (3), Passive bumpers (6). The backglass does not slide out of the backbox like other similar Keeney games. It is accessed by lowering the backboard inside back of game. Both the playfield and playfield glass are removed from the back. Another difference from those other games is that this one has a 4-digit replay counter.
- ipdb.notes
- No Panascope projection unit at top of backbox. The cabinet side art is the same as that of Keeney's 1961 'Startime'.
Depositing a coin at start of game requires pushing the start button to begin play and raises the ball to the playfield. The lit payout odds will stay at position one and the three rows of symbols at far right will flash and stop, lighting either a winning or non-winning sequence. Inserting additional coins will register games on the replay counter. Again pushing the start button will flash the symbols. Player would then keep pushing the start button until a winning sequence is displayed. Player must now shoot the ball and register enough points as noted on the score card to actually "Win" the game. A lit "Wild" symbol lights all symbols in that row.
Game has dual cash boxes. Both cashboxes are accessible to the operator through the front door. The smaller cashbox is accessible to the location owner and would contain his "take" of the games coins as determined by the adjustable step unit in the front door area. For example, a "2 to 1" plug-in setting would be a "50-50" split causing every other coin inserted into the game to be diverted by a relay that kicks the coin over to the location owner's cashbox. The location owner would have a key to the access door to collect his take and always have coins on hand for players.
The earliest Billboard ad we found was dated Apr-7-1962, page 100. It was advertised in a list of reconditioned games, which may or may not mean that it had been available awhile. The manufacturer's schematic diagram is dated 4-7-61.
The backglass artist has not been confirmed by us, but the style strongly resembles that of popular Gottlieb artist Charles Leroy Parker. Interestingly, "Birdland" was also a New York City jazz club, named for musician and composer Charlie Parker. The club operated from 1949 to 1965.
- player_count
- 1
- reward_type
- Replay
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Boats
- theme
- Sailing
- theme
- Birds
- theme
- Aviary
- theme
- Water
- year
- 1961