- gameplay_feature
- Kickers ×16
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Shyvers Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 1041
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, or 10-ball play. Kickers (16). Short backbox. Backglass score projection. Advertised as with or without payout.
Ball composition: steel, 1 3/16 inch.
- ipdb.notes
- This game has round kickers that look like bumpers but can only propel the ball upward. They are free-standing on the playfield with no lanes or other playfield components to guide a ball toward them.
Ken Shyvers vigorously protected his patent rights from copycats. An ad in the August 1937 issue of Automatic Age (not shown here) attests to this, and it references his Patent 2,087,799 which depicts game Shyvers Coin Automatic Machine Company's 1934 'Cannon Fire', a prior game that also had playfield kickers. In this ad, the manufacturer refers to the round kickers as "Accelerated Bumpers" and states they are protected by Shyvers' patents.
Also available in a ticket model.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Pageantry
- theme
- Women
- year
- 1937