- credit
- Gordon Horlick — Design
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×8
- gameplay_feature
- Reversed Flippers ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Williams Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 6286
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Williams
- ipdb.model_number
- 61
- ipdb.notable_features
- Reversed flippers (2), Pop bumpers (8).
- ipdb.notes
- The manufacturer's documentation repeatedly refers to this game using a hyphen, as 'Hoss-Feathers'.
Two manufacturer�s original playfield drawings exist for this 1-player game (not shown here). One drawing, identified as 'Hoss Feathers' is marked 61-1 and is dated 10/8/51 and has the signed initials GTH. The other drawing, identified as 'Horsefeathers' is marked 61-2, has no date, and has the signed initials HEW.
Duncan Brown has seen both drawings and provided us the following information:Both versions of model #61 are full-fledged, full-sized single-player pinball playfields from that era, with a ball shooter lane and an outhole trough and everything.
Harry�s drawing is complete, while Gordon�s looks unfinished - things are rearranged a bit but nothing is labeled. Maybe because they abandoned the project?
The two drawings are similar, but different. Given all we know about how Harry Williams was sending in playfields [to Chicago, from elsewhere in the USA where he was living] and Gordon Horlick was turning them into games, and given a design note where Harry instructs Sam Stern and Gordon what changes they might want to make once actually building and playing the game, I am assuming Harry�s drawing came first and Gordon�s came second and the game never got made. It would have been an expensive game! The game had 8 jet bumpers (!) in addition to the standard-ish two backwards flippers with a lane between them at the bottom. Gordon�s version rearranged the bumpers a bit and had two lanes at the center top instead of Harry�s one lane there, but was otherwise largely identical. Note that Harry called it "Horsefeathers" while Gordon called it "Hoss Feathers" but it�s definitely the same game.
We know from the above description that this Model 61, while never produced, did not become Model 65 'Horsefeathers' or 'Sweepstakes', no model number, each a 2-player game from 1952 with a console cabinet and dual playfields.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Horse Racing