- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×14
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Westerhaus Amusement Company
- ipdb_id
- 5382
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5382/image-24.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Passive bumpers (14), Trap hole (1).
- ipdb.notes
- 'Marines At Play' was a conversion of Bally's 1941 'Flicker'.
We previously listed the name of this 1944 game as the single word "Marines". Other pinball resources did the same, likely because that is the name the manufacturer seemed to always use in their many advertisements of this game. Distributors, however, would list this game as "Marines At Play", if they had sufficient ad space, because that is the longer name shown on the backglass. We now show that longer name for this listing in anticipation of what today�s hobbyists will see when they look at the backglass.
In Billboard, beginning with the ad dated Sep-30-1944 page 81, Westerhaus advertised this game as having a "revised playfield" but did not elaborate on that, nor did they specify if the Free Ball feature and the Jackpot feature, also mentioned in that ad, was part of the revision. At least we understand from this ad that there was a playfield design change during production of this 1944 game.
A separate, second production run was announced the following year. See Westerhaus Manufacturing Co.'s 1945 'Marines At Play (2nd Edition)'.
The pictures shown here are all from one machine. Its playfield does not have the features advertised for the 2nd Edition. We don't know if it represents the original 1st Edition or the revised 1st Edition.
- month
- 8
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Wartime
- theme
- Marines
- theme
- Military
- year
- 1944