- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Gamages of Holborn
- ipdb_id
- 5431
- ipdb.notable_features
- Vertical playfield bagatelle.
- ipdb.notes
- 'Whiffle' is the game most often associated with the birth of pinball, but according to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 1, the first true pinball was Charles P. Young's "Coin Game Board" trade stimulator of 1892, which was also glass-covered and coin-operated. The idea to add coin mechanisms to machines came even earlier, from British inventor Percival Everett, but it was Londoner Henry John Gerrard Pessers who was first to put a coin slot on a marble game, patented September 29, 1889. The game was called 'Pickwick' of which there were a number of models. This listing is for the Gamages model.
Gamages was a cut-price emporium located on Holborn Road in London from 1878 to 1972. It is listed as the manufacturer of the game pictured on page 51 of Bueschel's Pinball 1 but may have been only the retailer.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1901