- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×32
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Rock-ola Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 872
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/872/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 8 balls for 5 cents. Trap holes (32). Has a flashing electric light (in lower left of apron) and a ringing bell. Free Game feature.
- ipdb.notes
- This is Rock-Ola's first game with the Free Game feature invented by Bill Bellah, a janitor at Harry Williams' Automatic Amusements Company in Los Angeles, and licensed to Rock-Ola by J.H. Keeney. It is seen on the left side of the lower apron. It allowed the player to start a new game by pushing in the coin slide without a coin in it. No longer did players have to show the location attendant a qualifying score to be given a nickel to start the next game as a free earned replay. This game also vended tickets based on games earned.
The first game to have Bellah's free game mechanism is Keeney's 1935 'Quick Silver'.
An extensive story about Bill Bellah and his free game mechanism is found in the Encyclopedia of Pinball, Volume 2, pages 73-75.
- month
- 2
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1935