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    credit
    Harry Williams — Design
    gameplay_feature
    Pop Bumpers ×8
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Williams Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    6282
    ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
    Williams
    ipdb.model_number
    62
    ipdb.notable_features
    Pop bumpers (8).
    ipdb.notes
    The manufacturer�s original playfield drawing (not shown here) is dated 10/23/51 and has the signed initials HEW. This Model 62 was never made. It shows a long outhole trough to hold the five balls, typical of a 1-player game. Duncan Brown described what he saw on the drawing:This Model 62 is remarkably similar to Model 61 'Hoss-Feathers' - horse racing, eight pop bumpers, numbered 1 through 8, presumably they advanced the equivalent horses in a horse unit in the backbox? The biggest difference is� no flippers! The ball just caroms around advancing horses until it gets to the bottom and can bounce up off some rubbers against the apron, or goes out one of three lanes (which oddly, aren�t labeled, but I�m going to guess one each of "odd", "even", and "all" was the intent). Rebound switches for advancing 1-6 (but not 7 or 8!) and "advance odd hosses" and "advance even hosses" and two centered adjacent lanes up top that do even and odd "advance hosses". Erasures show that the designer moved those eight pop bumpers all over the place during the development of the game, but I do not see any erased flippers anywhere. See also Model 110, Williams' 1954 'Daffy Derby'.
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    Sports
    theme
    Horse Racing