Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (4 fields)
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1901 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 5431 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (7 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Gamages of Holborn used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB '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. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Vertical playfield bagatelle. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog gamages-of-holborn used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog pickwick used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Pickwick used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog pickwick used