Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (3 fields)
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 5377 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Peo Manufacturing Corporation used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5377/image-6.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This was the "improved" version of Peo's 1932 'Hi-Ball' having a "new, colorful playing board". The playfield's most noticeable difference is that the parallel ball guides at the top are shorter in length. Irving Bromberg and Company, self-described as the exclusive distributor of this game, published ads in two different periodicals in May 1932, both shown here, spelling the name as "Hi-Ball" in one ad while inexplicably spelling it as "Hy-Ball" in the other. The alternate spelling may have been an unintentional error, as we have no information that the game pictured was manufactured by Peo under that spelling. Perhaps the name "Hy-Ball" was adopted by Bromberg to differentiate this improved version from the original version, in place of having to continually refer to it in print as the "new Hi-Ball". used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 10 balls for 5 cents. One advertisement listed the cabinet dimensions as 37 inches long, 17 inches wide, and 40 inches high (on its detachable legs). Another ad indicated 37 inches long, 18 inches wide, and was sold "complete with a sturdy wooden stand". The legless game pictured here measured 37 inches long, 17 inches wide, and 8 inches high. A sticker on the lower playfield states "Gold, blue, and bronze balls count double if placed in corresponding pockets." used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog peo-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog hi-ball-improved used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Hi-Ball (Improved) used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog hi-ball-improved used