Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (1 field)
- credit
- IPDB Bud Breitenstein — Mechanics IPDB Herbert G. Breitenstein — Design Flipcommons Catalog Bud Breitenstein — Mechanics used Flipcommons Catalog Herbert G. Breitenstein — Design used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 2 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1934 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 4145 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (10 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/4145/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4145/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4145/image-3.jpg"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 2 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The payout mechanism used in this game was invented by brothers Henry W. Seiden and Herman L. Seiden. According to an Automatic Age article quoted in the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, this improved game had "an entirely new type of coin mechanism" than did Bally's 1933 'Rocket'. It came in a battery-operated model as well as a plug-in AC model, having a motor that operated on either AC or DC. By May 1934, models came with a check separator to operate on cash or tokens and payout in tokens only. In the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, Author Dick Bueschel writes: "There was one other change that never showed up in the advertising, and for which no flyer was prepared. The original ROCKET has a large red and chrome "R" emblem on its side over a black cabinet. On the NEW IMPROVED ROCKET the new cabinet removes the logo device and replaces it with chrome trim lines in varied colored cabinets. That's how operators knew they had new or refurbished games." The sole photograph in this listing shows the cabinet art design that appears to be the undocumented cabinet style of the Improved version. The 1934 Coin Machine Journal ad shown in this listing explains the various mechanical improvements to this game even while it still shows the cabinet of the original version. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB This improved version did not have the "R" emblem found on the original version and instead had artwork of parallel lines, possibly done in chrome. Cabinets came in varied colors. Patent D92,448 [DESIGN FOR A GAME APPARATUS] Filed Feb 28, 1934. Granted on June 12, 1934 to Herbert G. Breitenstein, assignor to Raymond T. Moloney. Patent 1,999,685 [GAME APPARATUS] Filed March 7, 1934. Granted April 30, 1935 to Herbert G. Breitenstein, assignor to Raymond T. Moloney. Patent 2,010,966 [GAME OF SKILL] Filed Mar 7, 1934. Granted August 13, 1935 to Henry W. Seiden and Herman L. Seiden, assignors to Lion Manufacturing Corporation. Patent 2,093,162 [GAME OF SKILL] Filed Mar 7, 1934. Granted September 14, 1937 to Herbert G. Breitenstein, assignor to Raymond T. Moloney. Patent 2,094,633 [GAME OF SKILL] Filed April 5, 1934. Granted Oct 5, 1937 to Herbert G. Breitenstein, assignor to Raymond T. Moloney. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog new-improved-rocket used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog New Improved Rocket used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog new-improved-rocket used