Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 8 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1950 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 5602 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Culp Products Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5602/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5602/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5602/image-5.png"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This bowl model of 'Bridgeball' was adapted from the coinless home-game, Culp Products Company's 1950 'Panbridge'. The earliest references we found for this game with its bowl-shaped playfield were articles in The Billboard in August 1950 stating this was Culp's entry into the coin machine field, and models of this game had been completed and tested, and shipments were to start around September 15th. Brief mentions in Billboard of September 9th indicate Culp was lining up some top distributors for the game and announced the game was ready for production, in a plant that they were building in Bristol, Indiana. We wonder if business plans fell apart at that point because, outside of those articles in Aug-Sep 1950, we found nothing further for this game until 1955 when Culp's bowl-shaped 'Bridgeball' reappeared. An article in The Billboard, Apr-23-1955, page 92 announced this game as "a new stand-up novelty game" and stated, "Culp said he might not be able to supply distributors with more than one sample for about 30 days, but hope (sic) to produce and market about 50 machines daily within a few months." Again we notice the hopes of production and delivery. The last reference we found for this game was a photo ad from Culp (shown here) in The Billboard, May-21-1955, page 122. Any of these games that were made in 1950 may not be identical to the game made in 1955. The cabinet measurements that we show are from a 1950 ad. Until we have more information to clarify a difference, we place all information in this one listing as the "short cabinet bowl model". Price when new in 1955: $125.00 See also an earlier version of this game, Culp Products Company's 1940 'Bridgeball (long cabinet bowl model)'. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 5 balls for 5 cents. Bowl is made of metal. Objective is to get each of the balls into one of the holes numbered 1 to 6 before it rolls into a gutter. Cabinet advertised (in 1950) as 30 inches long, 19 1/2 inches wide, 31 inches high, and weighing 55 lbs. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog culp-products-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog bridgeball-short-cabinet-bowl-model used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Bridgeball (short cabinet bowl model) used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog bridgeball-short-cabinet-bowl-model used