- credit
- C. Hale — Design
- credit
- Bon MacDougall — Design
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 5496
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5496/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5496/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5496/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5496/image-7.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- PAMCO
- ipdb.notable_features
- Game advertised as 40 inches by 20 inches. Nameplate on lower playfield apron indicates "Model No 40". Battery operated.
The Patent Office made designer Bon MacDougall split his original patent request into three requests:
Patent No. 1,973,820 [COIN CONTROLLED GAME APPARATUS] filed June 28, 1934. Granted September 18, 1934 to Bon MacDougall.
Patent No. 1,983,811 [GAME APPARATUS] filed June 28, 1934. Granted December 11, 1934 to Bon MacDougall.
Patent No. 2,035,271 [GAME APPARATUS] filed June 28, 1934. Granted March 24, 1936 to Bon MacDougall.
- ipdb.notes
- A manufacturer ad from November 1934 states this game was made at both Los Angeles and Chicago locations.
Model 40 was a slightly shorter version of PAMCO's 1934 'Major League (Model 44)' and both versions were an improvement over the original model PAMCO's 1934 'Major League'. Besides having a changed playfield design, a mechanical defect was resolved in these new versions, and the manufacturer was clear to point this out by advertising, "A new added feature: a batter automatically up every time."
Designer Harry Williams had already left PAMCO by the time this game came out.
The upper playfield design most easily differentiates the three versions of Pacific�s Major League if a model number is not evident on the lower apron:
� Model 44 has two holes arranged vertically at the top of the playfield. Just below them are five holes in the formation of a shallow chevron. The Batter Up hole has an elevated pair of baseball bats to capture the ball.
� Model 40 has one hole, not two, at the top of the playfield, and the chevron is deeper, not shallow. The pair of bats are painted on the playfield.
� The original model has one hole at the top of the playfield and no chevron hole arrangement below it.
One of the designers of this game, C. Hale, was reported in the October 1935 issue of Automatic Age, page 105, as a new employee of California Exhibit Company working as an Associate Engineer in their Research Department. In that article, he was described as previously having been an "associate developer" of this 1934 game and of Allied Amusement's 1935 'Barrel Roll'.
- month
- 10
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Baseball
- year
- 1934