- gameplay_feature
- Mechanical Flippers ×8
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Ad-Lee Company
- ipdb_id
- 5294
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5294/image-9.png"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1-cent or 5-cent play. Mechanical flippers (8). Each of two levers control four flippers simultaneously. The game has no plunger. Ball starts at bottom of playfield and is manipulated via the levers to raise the ball toward the higher scoring holes at the top.
Senior model advertised as 22 inches by 45 inches.
Junior model advertised as 15 inches by 31 inches.
A choice of wood or steel stand was sold separately.
- ipdb.notes
- The flyer mentions that this game was on location in North Carolina for six months. This is a reference to Charles Gravatt, the first manufacturer of this game. See Gravatt's 1932 'Double Shuffle'.
Manufactured by Hercules Novelty Company as a Private Label version of their Hercules Novelty's 1932 'Double-Shuffle (Junior)'. We don't know if either company branded their games to allow us to know if there is any difference between them. The two companies seem to share the same game image in their advertisements of the Junior model where the name at top of playfield is hyphenated and displayed in a straight line, not an arc. Yet, we have photographs of the Junior model with a non-hyphenated name displayed in an arc. Until we know the reason for this difference, we arbitrarily place in the Hercules Novelty listing the game images showing a straight-line name and place in the Ad-Lee listing the games images showing an arced name.
Chris Peterson provided the following information to accompany his six images:
"Actual length and width of the cabinet (not counting coin slide or ball feed knob: 30.5" long, 14.25" wide. The game did come with a stand - it is mahogany and similar to what is shown in the Hercules Sr. ad but it was warped due to moisture I think and it no longer stands level. It is attached to the stand via two screws from below that go through brackets on the stand. I think it is actually required because the ball launching mechanism sticks out lower than the bottom frame of the cabinet so it cannot sit on a table (in my pictures it is pulled forward enough off my table so that lift mechanism is at the edge of my table)."
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1932