- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 3662
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-10.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-11.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3662/image-12.png"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 10 cents per player, 10 frames each, two players alternate play. Scoring a strike in the first shot constitutes one frame or, if a strike is not made, two shots constitute a frame. Cabinet advertised as approximately 8 feet by 2 feet.
- ipdb.notes
- This is Not A Pinball. It is a shuffle bowler, also called a puck bowler, but may be listed as a pinball in other resources.
We have seen three different backglasses for a 2-player Chicago Coin "Bowling Alley" and also their 6-player game with that name. The only one that debuted in 1949 is the 2-player version pictured here and is the only one of the 2-player glasses where player scores are tallied horizontally.
The earliest reference we found for this game was in The Billboard, Oct-29-1949, pages 119-120 indicating the game debuted "last week." Chicago Coin announced in The Billboard, Nov-12-1949, page 86 that samples were being shipped to distributors. It would be shipped to operators on dime play but was convertible to nickel operation.
- month
- 10
- player_count
- 2
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Bowling
- year
- 1949