- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Saucers
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×10
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Williams Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 6146
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6146/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Williams
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Passive bumpers (10), Kick-out holes (3), Kick-out saucer (1).
- ipdb.notes
- The backglass shows William's New Orlean's which incorrectly includes two apostrophes.
This game does not appear anywhere in known Williams documentation thus has no model number. The promotional photo shown here is the only evidence we have that this game existed. The photo carries the Stadler Studios negative reference number SS48 1664. That means it was photographed in 1948. We find no mention in contemporaneous Billboard magazines. Since Stadler assigned their numbers sequentially (across all of their clients, not just Williams) we can compare their number on this photo to other promo photos of games for which we have dates, to more specifically place this game in a timeline.
SS48 1077 belongs to Williams Model 17 Virginia of March 1948.
SS48 1343 belongs to Williams Model 18 Yanks, a baseball-themed game of April 1948
SS48 2146 belongs to Williams Model 19 Dew-Wa-Ditty of June 1948.
Model 17 and the games preceding it referred to the playfield bonus as the "Premium Score". Model 18 and the games following it referred to it as the "Bonus". New Orleans used the term 'Bonus' as well.
Interestingly, the cabinet artwork of 'New Orleans' is the same as Dew-Wa-Ditty and the lower apron has the baseball score card for Yanks. The backglass resembles the one for Model 24 El Paso of November 1948, a game following Saratoga of October 1948, both marking the first in a series of Williams games named after cities.
The playfield layout for 'New Orleans' is different than the games mentioned above so we cannot theorize that it was a prototype for one of those games and that the artwork got changed at the last minute. In the photo, we can see the game had been played because the lower kick-out holes have paint wear and there is ball tracking along the upper ball arch. Some text had been over-painted above the center kick-out hole, evidence that the designer had been adjusting the game rules.
Tennessee Williams' 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire took place in New Orleans and for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. The Broadway play ran from 1947 to 1949.
- player_count
- 1
- production_quantity
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- American Places