Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (1 field)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Free Play Holes used IPDB Passive Bumpers ×13 used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 5 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1939 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 1209 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- reward_type
- IPDB Free Play used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Western Products, Incorporated used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1209/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1209/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1209/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1209/image-3.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This game is reportedly one of the few games from this manufacturer that is not payout. A Billboard article dated May-28-1949 page 109 looked back ten years to the same week in 1939 to describe 'Hold Tight' as "featuring four scoring panels on the backboard, four ways to score and fast playfield action." The backglass depicts four men who, according to a 1939 Billboard article, "hold tight to their perches before they are tipped over by skillful shooting of a ball over a switch on the playfield". This article refers to these men pejoratively as "darkies". The Andrews Sisters released the song "Hold-Tight" at the end of 1938 and it charted in the beginning of 1939, reaching #4 on the Hit Parade. Their rendition of it caused a stir for its alleged innuendo and was banned. In a letter to the Editors of Time Magazine dated May 1939, their manager explains the lyrics (scroll down to the bottom) as they were sung, and before they were rewritten. This pinball machine hit the market around this time. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Passive bumpers (13), Free Play hole (1). used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog western-products-incorporated used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog hold-tight used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Hold Tight used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog hold-tight used