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    credit
    Harry Williams — Design
    gameplay_feature
    Kick-Out Holes ×9
    gameplay_feature
    Passive Bumpers ×4
    gameplay_feature
    Pop Bumpers ×3
    gameplay_feature
    Flippers ×2
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Williams Electronic Manufacturing Corporation
    ipdb_id
    6299
    ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
    Williams
    ipdb.model_number
    227
    ipdb.notable_features
    Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Passive bumpers (4), Kick-out holes (9).
    ipdb.notes
    The manufacturer's original playfield drawing (not shown here) is stamped ORIGINAL, drawn on 3/17/59 by Harry Mabs and approved 3/18/59 by HEW. This means Mabs was the draftsman and Williams was the designer. Duncan Brown provided the following information based on that drawing:It�s a pinball with 2 flippers, 4 dead bumpers, 3 Jet bumpers, and 2-above-3-above-4 pyramid of kick-out holes (like an inverted bolwing pin setup without the head pin). I have to believe that was a kicker assembly where they all acted together from one solenoid, or maybe 3 rows with 3 solenoids, so every kicker in a row acted together, but then the ball might land in the next row down. No kicker angles are shown, the holes are simply described as "Dished 1-3/16 holes." In pondering whether any of the "Mabs" playfields were really someone else�s and just signed off on by Mabs as Engineering Manager, I decided no because no other known names were ever on them. He was clearly approving clean drawings of his own ideas. But here is the one and only time his name appears with another known designer, and this time it�s as the draftsman, something he didn't often do even on his own games! I'm sure there�s a story there (that we�ll never know�) There is an insert drawing for this! Lit scoring, 1 player, dated 6-24-59. At some later time, in what looks like Kordek's handwriting, it is noted as "Cancelled. Never Made".
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical