Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 5 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1959 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 1932 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Midway used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Midway Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1932/image-1.png"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 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. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 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. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog midway-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog red-ball used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Red Ball used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog red-ball used