- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 3571
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3571/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3571/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3571/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3571/image-4.png"]
- ipdb.model_number
- 119
- ipdb.notable_features
- Operates on nickels, dimes, and quarters. For 2 or 4 players.
- ipdb.notes
- This is not a pinball but is a scoring device to connect to existing coinless, non-electric shuffleboards. Chicago Coin documentation included it on a pinball list so we show it here for clarification purposes. This device would turn free shuffleboards into a pay-to-play scheme in exchange for tracking players' scores electrically.
It is made of solid walnut and maple and installed at the shuffleboard's center point, high above the playfield, its two backglasses facing towards the players, one in each direction.
Shuffleboards were very popular in 1949 and many companies were making these add-on scoring devices, referring to them collectively as "scoreboards". Chicago Coin's documentation, and their Billboard ads shown here, refer to this scoring device as "Shuffle-King Score Board". We previously listed this Model 119 device as just "Score Board".
Per The Billboard Oct-23-1948 pages 92 and 100, their Shuffle-King shuffleboard was produced in October 1948 and was available both with and without this coin-operated scoreboard. This scoreboard was available by itself for use with any shuffleboard.
List price when new: $250.00
Distributor price: $185.00
- month
- 10
- player_count
- 4
- production_quantity
- 500
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1948