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    ipdb_id
    3560
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3560/image-2.jpg"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    Advertised as 49 inches long and 23 inches wide.
    ipdb.notes
    We previously indicated the manufacturer of this game was Pacent Novelty Manufacturing Company of Utica, New York, based on a Sep-11-1937 Billboard ad (shown here) indicating it was "Manufactured by the same Factory as Bolo". While Pacent did make Bolo, they went bankrupt in early 1937 such that their assets were being sold off by May of that year, and a Billboard ad from May (not shown here) did not list 'Right Or Else' among the games bring sold off. Pacent could not have subsequently manufactured 'Right Or Else' to be advertised the following September as "new". Also, it was not advertised among the games they displayed at the January 1937 Coin Machine Exposition in Chicago. The sponsor of the September Billboard ad, Capitol Automatic Amusement Company, was "the country�s largest music operating organization" and sold musical instruments. The only items we found that they manufactured were coin-operated phonographs. In the ad, they identified themselves as 'Factory Agents'. We know that Pacent was formed in May 1936 but did not have their own manufacturing facility until September 1936 when they leased a building in Utica for this purpose. In the interim, according to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, initial production of 'Bolo' was jobbed out "all around Utica, with half a dozen suppliers making components and assembling games." Any one of these anonymous locations that made 'Bolo' between May and September 1936 could have been the 1937 manufacturing location for 'Right Or Else' to which Capitol referred. Or, perhaps Pacent employees remained at their new building, post-bankruptcy, making new games under a new company name that is unknown to us. Until we find better information for this game than our one Billboard ad, we do not know who manufactured it.
    month
    9
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    year
    1937