- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Midway Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 1932
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1932/image-1.png"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Midway
- ipdb.notable_features
- 25 bouncing balls settle into a pop-up array of 25 holes. Six score reels, three are dummy. Upright cabinet advertised as 26 inches wide, 66 inches high, and 30 inches deep.
- ipdb.notes
- This is an upright "bouncing ball inline game", the second game from this manufacturer. Their first game was "Bumper Shuffle", a rebound shuffleboard game, which was released in January 1959.
Midway Manufacturing Company was formed in 1958 by Henry Ross, an electrical engineer, and Marcine "Iggy" Wolverton, a mechanical engineer. According to an article in The Billboard dated Nov-3-1958 page 91, both men had quit United Manufacturing Company two weeks before and had worked there for over 11 years.
- month
- 5
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1959