Back Flash Ball

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  1. By IPDB
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Great States Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    3927
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3927/image-1.png"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    10 balls for 1 cent or 5 cents. Colored lights flash as balls fall in playfield pockets. Walnut finished cabinet advertised as 30 inches long and 15 inches wide.
    ipdb.notes
    Game was equipped with either a 1-cent or 5-cent coin chute. This pin table may have been the first machine to feature colored playfield lights. According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, clear flashlight bulbs were used, powered by batteries placed under the playfield. To make the lights have color, pharmaceutical gel capsules were cut in half, and the halves were placed over each light bulb to color them red, green, yellow, and blue. Sam Gensberg would copy this idea three years later on his highly successful Chicago Coin's 1935 'Beam-Lite'.
    month
    3
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    year
    1932