Sources
OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (2 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Kick-Out Holes ×2 used IPDB Passive Bumpers ×10 used IPDB Flippers ×6 used
- credit
- IPDB Roy Parker — Art IPDB Harry Mabs — Design Flipcommons Catalog Harry Mabs — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Roy Parker — Art used
Sources agree (9 fields)
- display_type
- backglass-lights OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- electromechanical OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 10 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1947 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- opdb_id
- GyVVQ-MVKYX OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Humpty Dumpty OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 6500 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 1254 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (14 fields)
- abbreviation
- OPDB HD used
- opdb.images
- OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/10d84ec9-ea65-4b63-be92-2ff288d8e090-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/10d84ec9-ea65-4b63-be92-2ff288d8e090-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/10d84ec9-ea65-4b63-be92-2ff288d8e090-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":1500,"height":1473},"small":{"width":250,"height":246},"medium":{"width":640,"height":629}},"title":null,"primary":true},{"type":"playfield","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/d8a5354b-34b9-4a0d-8cf4-65a277749591-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/d8a5354b-34b9-4a0d-8cf4-65a277749591-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/d8a5354b-34b9-4a0d-8cf4-65a277749591-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":480,"height":638},"small":{"width":188,"height":250},"medium":{"width":480,"height":638}},"title":null,"primary":true}] used
- theme
- IPDB Fictional Characters used
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Gottlieb used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB D. Gottlieb & Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/Playfield2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/1254f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-33.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-34.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-35.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-36.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-37.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-38.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-39.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-40.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-41.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-42.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-43.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-44.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-45.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1254/image-47.png"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 1 used
- ipdb.marketing_slogans
- IPDB "Announcing... The Greatest Triumph in Pin Game History - Sensationally New Player Controlled Flipper Bumpers..The player will Laugh! The Spectator will Roar! The operator will be Thrilled!" used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB Flippers were already used on many games prior to 1947, but they were non-electrical, entirely mechanical. Some games had eight mechanical flippers, such as Ad-Lee Company's 1932 'Double-Shuffle'. Most were "manually-operated" bats used on baseball games, one to a playfield. 'Humpty Dumpty' is the first pinball machine manufactured with flippers that were electromechanical. According to the book Pinball 1, David Gottlieb wanted to name this game 'Flipper' but a legal check found a patented countertop game that had a manual bat, Smith Manufacturing Company's 1932 'Flipper'. Teaser ads for this game began appearing in The Billboard starting with the Oct-11-1947 issue. Gottlieb announced this game in the Nov-1-1947 issue and where a distributor advertised they were "now delivering" it. Included in this listing is an image of a Billboard ad where a distributor enthusiastically thanks Gottlieb "for making the greatest improvement in the history of pin games". 'Humpty Dumpty' was out for less than a month at the time the ad was published, highlighting the immediate impact this game had on the industry. Harry Mabs, a Gottlieb employee, is credited with inventing the EM flipper. Jerry Koci, who worked for Chicago Coin, claimed to have invented it, for which he received a patent. See Chicago Coin's 1947 'Bermuda' for more information. A method of player-control other than flippers is found on Rock-ola's 1932 'Juggle Ball'. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Flippers (6), Passive bumpers (10), Kick-out holes (2). Backglass stop-motion light animation (Humpty Dumpty falls). Illuminated credit display on backglass. used
- ipdb_rating
- IPDB 7.2 used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog d-gottlieb-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog humpty-dumpty used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog humpty-dumpty used