Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 7 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1947 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 792 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (11 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Trap Holes ×26 used
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/792/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/792/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/792/image-3.jpg"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 496 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This is a reissue of Bally's 1938 'Eureka'. The original game had a shorter backbox and a cabinet not as deep. Bally reissued this game post-war only as a free-play, table-style model and intentionally gave it no "race-horse atmosphere". Bally announced this game in a Cash Box article dated Jul-21-1947, page 44, and placed large picture ads of it through September in The Billboard and Cash Box. In the following months, distributor ads offered this game for sale for $489.50. Bally's Numerical List of Machines and their Alphabetical List of Bally Machines both identify this game as Model 496 and as "5 ball free play" but inexplicably show a release (to production) date of 2-20-48, seven months after it was announced. Considering the heavy advertising, this 1948 date must be incorrect. We don't know if the date should have read 2-20-47 or if 2-20-48 belonged to a different game on these lists. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 1, 2, or 5 ball play (operator option). Trap holes (26). A-B-C-D feature. Spell-Name feature. Coin drop on wooden lockdown bar. Operates on single coin or multiple coins (operator option). used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog eureka-2 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Eureka used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog eureka-2 used