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  1. By OPDB
    display_type
    backglass-lights
    month
    5 1
    name
    Boston
    opdb_id
    G5n6W-MjBj6
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    year
    1949
  2. By IPDB
    credit
    Harry Williams — Design
    credit
    George Molentin — Art
    gameplay_feature
    Flippers ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Pop Bumpers ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Kick-Out Holes ×3
    gameplay_feature
    Passive Bumpers ×2
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Williams Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    359
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/359/image-7.jpg"]
    ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
    Williams
    ipdb.model_number
    29
    ipdb.notable_features
    Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Passive bumpers (2), Kick-out holes (3). The two diagonal channels light for Special on 1st ball only. Making numbers 1 to 6 lights lower kick-out hole for Super Special to award 5 replays but only if no replay had already been earned during play. "Handicap Equalizer" lights the other playfield Specials variously on successive games that are played without winning a replay (see Operator Instructions in Files section for details). Sound: 2 bells.
    ipdb.notes
    The backglass shows a man on horseback on a moonlit night in colonial Boston apparently signaling a conveniently awake and fully dressed citizenry of something behind him. The scene likely is intended to portray Paul Revere's historic midnight ride to Lexington on April 18, 1775 to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were on the march to arrest them. In the background, a light shines from the bell tower of Boston's Christ Church. However, Revere didn't start his journey on horseback until after he had left Boston, having been first rowed across the Charles River to Charlestown by associates, and there he borrowed a horse to start his ride. Fellow patriot William Dawes was also dispatched from Boston to Lexington for the same reason as was Revere, but Dawes was the one who took the land route through Boston. Therefore, history would have the man on horseback in Boston be William Dawes.
    month
    1 5
    player_count
    1
    reward_type
    Replay
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    American Places
    theme
    American History
    year
    1949