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technology_generation
pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
month
12 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year
1932 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
5390 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (6 fields)

ipdb.corporate_entity_name
IPDB Ace Novelty Company used
ipdb.notes
IPDB According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 1, Bally had sought an injunction to stop copycat manufacturers from making copies of their Bally's 1932 'Goofy (Junior)'. One of the copycat games was Genco's 1932 'Jiggers (Jr)' and another was Ace Novelty's 1932 'Who's Goofy'. Ace Novelty then cleverly escaped Bally's injunction by stopping their copycat game "Who's Goofy" and instead started making Ace Novelty's 1933 'Jiggilo', a copy of the Jiggers game. Thus, Ace was now making a copy of a copy, and was no longer directly copying the Bally game. Based on this information, it's possible that this December 1932 conversion kit was Ace's initial response to the injunction, to address their "Who's Goofy" games that they had sold prior to the injunction, while they soon ramped up to a full production game, Ace Novelty's 1933 'Jiggilo'. used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog ace-novelty-company used
title
Flipcommons Catalog jiggilo-3 used
name
Flipcommons Catalog Jiggilo used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog jiggilo-3 used