- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bay City Games, Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 3594
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3594/image-10.png"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 10 balls for 5 cents.
- ipdb.notes
- According to Richard Bueschel's Pinball 1, this game "was never advertised in the trade media, meaning it was locally sold by sample and word of mouth". At the time of writing, Bueschel had encountered only three examples of this game, two located in Michigan where the manufacturer was located, and both had broken playfield glasses which Bueschel attributed to the cue stick. From this, he said, the balls would soon get lost, assuring that this game was short-lived.
Instructions were pasted to the underside of the playfield glass to face the player and stated:
A game of science and skill. KOW TOW. Patent pending. Copyright throughout United States. Deposit nickel in coin slot on right side of case and push lever in to release balls. Place balls one at a time in alley and use cue to shoot. After shooting ten balls, count the total in the score slots at lower end of case. Cueing the ball properly and using care in attaining just the right momentum on the ball will result in good scores. Each point on the board is possible to make consistently. Bay City Games Inc.
The game pictured here with the "angled top" was located in New Jersey. It is the version pictured in Pinball 1.
Also pictured here is a "round top" version that appears to be mounted into an otherwise separate stand. There is no name on this game and we only assume is it a version of Kow Tow made by this manufacturer.
- month
- 3
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1932