- credit
- Charles Solinski — Design
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Central Manufacturing Co.
- ipdb_id
- 5615
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5615/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5615/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5615/image-2.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1 cent or 5 cent play. Game advertised as 19 inches high, 16 inches wide, and 10 inches deep. Has an anti-tilt mechanism. No balls are used in this game. The player inserts coins and propels them onto the playfield to bounce between the pins and into score pockets for singles, doubles, triples, and home runs. The instructions state that, before inserting coin, player must push button on top of game to reset the tilt if needed and to clear the previous score, which could only mean removing from the playfield any coins left in the score pockets from the previous game. Reportedly, these played coins would then drop into a cash can corresponding to the pocket hit, and coins that did not score would drop to the bottom of the game. This suggests that winning scores at game's end could be reported to the location for payout before the button is pushed, and the owner of the machine could later count the segregated coins to reimburse the location.
- ipdb.notes
- This is a table top game with a vertical playfield. First post-war game from this manufacturer.
A Billboard article dated Sep-28-1946 page 102 indicates that the player deposits a coin and shoots it into play, to fall into playfield slots or grooves. No balls are used. The same article refers to this machine as a pin game. While the term "pin game" is not untrue for a game having pins on its playfield, as this one has, this term more often denotes the use of round pinballs and not just pins. Because 'Hi Fly' does not use pinballs, we classify it as Not A Pinball and maintain this listing to clarify and expand the Billboard article.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Baseball
- year
- 1946