- gameplay_feature
- Gobble Holes
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 1744
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-22.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1744/image-23.png"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 417
- ipdb.notable_features
- "Half-and-half" passive bumpers (15), Gobble hole (1). Buy-back feature. The bumpers each have two lamp sockets in them, separated by a light shield for independent illumination.
- ipdb.notes
- Bally advertised that this game could be operated with or without its buy-back feature but we don't know whether they meant it was an ordering option or was standard equipment that could be disabled by the operator.
A Billboard article shown here states that this game has a "new slingshot bumper" described as a rubber band stretched between two points and having action compared to that of a child's toy slingshot. However, what we find in the manufacturer's pictures are not rubbers stretched between two posts as might be expected from the description. Instead, we see several devices that look like the rotating arrow bumpers of later games such as Gottlieb's 1968 'Four Seasons' but we do not know if they function in the same way. These bumpers did appear on Bally games that immediately followed 'Pan-American' so they appear to be a 'new' feature although their appearance two months earlier on Bally's 1941 'Play Ball' may have been Bally's first use of this bumper.
The term 'Pan-American' refers to North America, Central America, and South America, collectively. This is reflected in the names of the countries shown on the playfield. The cabinet sides show an aircraft. Pan American World Airlines was a USA-based international airlines that operated from 1927 to 1991.
- month
- 6
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- World Places
- year
- 1941