- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×16
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- P & S Machine Company
- ipdb_id
- 3872
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3872/image-10.png"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Passive bumpers (16).
- ipdb.notes
- 'Bombardier' was a conversion of Genco's 1939 'Follies of 1940'.
We list three different 'Bombardier' games made during World War II, the last of the three was made in 1944. Each was a conversion of a different source game; two conversions were from P & S Machine Company. Distributor ads in 1944 often did not identify which of the three conversions was being listed. What was obvious to them back then as to which game they were selling is less obvious to us now as we look for clues to determine when this 1944 'Follies' conversion first appeared.
The earliest 1944 Billboard ad we found that specifically indicated it was a conversion of 'Follies' is a pictureless distributor ad dated July 22, 1944, page 79. The earliest P & S Machine Company ad referencing this 'Follies' conversion is dated Sept 2, 1944, page 80 and advertises that the game was already selling well. We found no P & S ads between July 22 and Sept 2, 1944, but during this interim we saw an increasing number of distributor ads specifying this 'Follies' conversion.
- month
- 7
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Military
- theme
- World War II
- year
- 1944