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  1. By IPDB
    credit
    Bon MacDougall — Design
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    1760
    ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
    PAMCO
    ipdb.notable_features
    Inserting a coin automatically rotates the playfield "Parlay" dial, choosing the value of all payout pockets from as low as 2 to one, to as high as 40 to one. Jack-Pot Hole is worth from 50 cents to five dollars. Advertised as 40 inches long by 20 inches wide.
    ipdb.notes
    This first version has no backbox and a different playfield than the two versions that followed. According to Marketplace Pictorial History, the new changing odds feature on this game marked the beginning of the bingo machines. See also: PAMCO's 1935 'Pamco Parlay Senior' PAMCO's 1936 'Pamco Parlay Junior'
    month
    10
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    Sports
    theme
    Horse Racing
    year
    1935