- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Kromson
- ipdb_id
- 6409
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6409/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6409/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2). The pop bumpers each have two coils. Reclined backbox. The upper left apron indicates "Bolas Jugadas" (Balls Played) and has lamps to indicate five balls. The upper right apron indicates "Multa Una Bola" (Penalty One Ball). The manufacturer's round logo is displayed on the playfield between the flippers, The lower apron displays representations of the obverse and reverse of a gold medal above the words, "Medalla de Oro. XIII Exposicion Internacionale de Inventores de Bruselas". The game was advertised to have silent operation.
- ipdb.notes
- The Spanish daily newspaper ABC has an article dated Mar-29-1964 that states this game won a gold medal at the 13th International Exhibition in Brussels (aka 'Inventor's Exposition', aka 'Brussels Innova') for its electro-mechanical design components that allowed for a "completely silent" operation, thus allowing it to be placed in locations where there are customers who might otherwise object to the sounds a pinball machine makes. The patent image in this listing shows a pop bumper with two coils.
An article in The Billboard, Apr-18-1964 page 55, briefly mentions this game as a "soundproofed" game with "nearly noiseless play" to "counter complaints that pinballs are vulgar because they are noisy." In this article, the game is identified at the show as "the Kromson" and the article acknowledged the reason for this was not clear.
The manufacturer name on this game and flyer does not include the Spanish company designation of 'S.A.' for Sociedad An�nima. We have found the designation used many years later as "Kromson, S.A."
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Auto Racing
- year
- 1964