Back Eureka

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