- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×12
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Williams Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 876
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/876/image-8.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Williams
- ipdb.notable_features
- Passive bumpers (12), Kick-out hole (1).
- ipdb.notes
- The term "Flat-Top" is military slang for any aircraft carrier.
Billboard ads from the manufacturer started as early as 12/16/1944 p72, without pictures, saying to write them for advance information. The January, 1945 Billboard editions had distributor ads claiming they had this new game "In stock for immediate delivery" while manufacturer ads in the same editions still indicated the game was "coming".
It wasn't until BB 03/03/1945 p72 that the manufacturer published an ad (with picture) no longer saying this game was "coming" and that it was a conversion of this game:
Bally's 1940 'Attention' (or maybe Exhibit's 1940 'Attention')
Then, a pictureless manufacturer ad in BB 04/21/1945 p76 announced the following games were also used for this conversion:
Bally's 1940 'Mascot'
Bally's 1941 'Air Force'
Bally's 1941 'Silver Skates'
Finally, a pictureless manufacturer ad in BB 06/16/1945 p82 announced "now 4 more games" were also used for this conversion:
Bally's 1941 'Mystic' (or, less likely, Pacific Manufacturing Corporation's 1937 'Mystic')
Bally's 1941 'Pursuit'
Bally's 1941 'Pan-American'
Bally's 'Crystal'
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Military
- theme
- World War II
- year
- 1945