- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×10
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Como Manufacturing Corp.
- ipdb_id
- 2334
- ipdb.image_urls
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- ipdb.notable_features
- 10 balls for 5 cents. Trap holes (10). Three tilt warnings before a full tilt. Each warning will light a letter in the word T-I-L-T on the backglass. When the full word lights up, the game is tilted. No knocker on this game but the bell only rings when a credit is awarded.
Replay wheel maximum: 48
Sound: 1 bell
- ipdb.notes
- 'Stadium' is Como Manufacturing's first and (apparently) only pinball machine. A pre-release article stated that among the people at Como who had a big hand in the new soon-to-be-announced product were Larry Costello, Jerry Gerardin, and Carl Knipple, to be joined by Ralph Nicholson.
Como was making arcade games prior to 'Stadium' and had moved into larger facilities the year before this game came out. We read in a 1956 article that they did much of the manufacturing of pool games and kiddie rides for Bally Manufacturing, with Lion Manufacturing Company being the parent company of both.
The Billboard Ad shows a picture of the game as if it has a flipper button on the cabinet. The playfield images do not show flippers are present. A Billboard article stated "Stadium features a return to old fashioned body english and introduces ball traps designed to develop play interest." A 'return to body english' is a nice way to say there are no flippers. While other manufacturers were making flipper pinballs since 1947, Como didn't try it and neither did Bally, the other Lion subsidiary, except for the two years 1956 and 1957, having otherwise produced throughout the 1950's bingo machines, shuffles, gun games, and the aforementioned games that Como actually made for them.
- month
- 6
- player_count
- 1
- reward_type
- Replay
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Football
- year
- 1951