- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Richard Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 1319
- ipdb.image_urls
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- ipdb.notable_features
- Penny or nickel play. This is a Square Machine advertised as 25 inches on each side and 36 1/2 inches tall.
- ipdb.notes
- The playfield hole and pin placement of this game appear identical to Bally's 1932 'Ballyround' which was released two months earlier, although the playfield has been mounted slightly counter-clockwise as compared to that game. Instead of a Bally Hole, this game has a Joy Hole in the same place.
The images attributed to Dennis Dodel are the only example of the few shown here for which we have detailed information about the inside of the cabinet. It shows a game having no serial number and its legs are missing. It measures 24 1/2 inches by 24 1/2 inches, and 9 inches high without its legs, or 12 inches high without legs but including the leg attachment skirt. The ball lift appears to have been altered from original, changed to a 'Ballyround' type of combination ball lifter and shooter mechanism. No lift-up top. Access to the playfield requires removing screws around the playfield glass. The cabinet is laminated wood, not solid wood. The baffle board under the playfield is slightly concave, as is the playfield, and it was this saucer shape that helped doom Ballyround to being recalled by its manufacturer due to its chronic mechanical failure. However, the failed Ballyround baffle board rotated around a central axis, while this baffle board moves back and forth just like the flat ones under traditional rectangular playfields. Whether that really solved a problem or not, the manufacture of square machines did not last beyond 1933.
- month
- 6
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1932