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  1. By IPDB
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Rock-ola Manufacturing Corporation
    ipdb_id
    1717
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1717/Overall_view.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1717/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1717/image-2.jpg"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    1 or 2 balls per play. Top payout is $2.50. Advertised as 50 inches long by 25 inches wide. Equipped with Rock-O-Pack (or Rock-O-Pak). Ball composition: 1-inch steel From a Billboard ad (not shown here): The ball starts on its way -- you get a number from one to twenty instantly flashed on the brilliant light-up panel -- then the ball crosses another switch, determining the odds also on the panel -- the ball continues to another series of switches and if it lights a switch numbered one higher than the first one lighted, player wins with odds already determined. Can be made for one or two balls, specify when ordering.
    ipdb.notes
    Game could be made to operate with either 1 or 2 balls, operator was to specify when ordering. Price when new: $137.50 Ticket Unit was $10.00 extra.
    month
    10
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    year
    1936