Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 5 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1935 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 1197 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB PAMCO used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1197/image-9.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This is one of five different games that PAMCO advertised collectively as the "Quintuplets". According to an article in the Coin Machine Journal (May 1935, pages 73-75) in which PAMCO owner Fred McClellan introduced the games in an interview, each had a miniature cabinet measuring 14 by 25 inches (ads indicate 14 3/8 by 25 1/4 inches) intended for locations where a larger cabinet would not fit. The game could be operated as a pin table, or the legs could be easily detached to make it a counter game. There was nothing mounted inside the cabinet except an "entirely new" ball lift and plunger assembly not used on previous games. All other internal mechanisms were mounted to the underside of the slide-out playfield. "Hit or Miss" was identified by PAMCO as the first of the five games. Advertised pictures of it can be seen with a thin vertical marquee mounted at the rear of the cabinet showing the words "Quintuplet No. 1" on it, while the actual name of the game appears in the upper playfield. In the above article, McClellan said the original idea was to make replacement playfields for their Contact games but instead they saw demand for a complete and miniature game. The name "Quintuplets" was to capitalize on the international popularity of the Dionne quintuplets born in Canada only the year before. Just as the prematurely-born Dionne babies were displayed in incubators to an admiring public, McClellan displayed his five new "baby games" in his showrooms in what he called "a strictly modern conception of the coin machine incubator". The other four games are: PAMCO's 1935 'Make or Break' PAMCO's 1935 'Odd or Even' PAMCO's 1935 'Double or Nothing' PAMCO's 1935 'Left or Right' In an interview with pinball historian Russ Jensen on March 24, 1982, Harry Williams thought Bon MacDougall was responsible for the design of the Quintuplet games, but we have been unable to pin this down definitively. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Game is made from solid rosewood. Chrome components on playfield, including a pivoting ball-stop at the bottom of each of two vertical Alley-Ways. Tilt mechanism is in the top left corner. Operates on 6-volt battery. Advertised at 25 1/4 inches long by 14 3/8 inches wide. The advertisement shows eight balls on the playfield but exact balls per game is uncertain. The play strategy is to first load up the two Alley-Ways with trapped balls, then shoot for the top Hit lane. A ball thru the Hit lane makes the green light come on and both ball-stops pivot to release all trapped balls to the large 1000-point scoring hole. A ball thru the Miss lane makes the red light come on and all trapped balls are instead routed to the outhole at bottom. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog pacific-amusement-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog hit-or-miss used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Hit or Miss used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog hit-or-miss used