- gameplay_feature
- Kickers
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×10
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- The Harry Hoppe Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 2499
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2499/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 5 balls for 5 cents. Passive bumpers (10), Kicker (1), Free Play hole. V-shaped ball trap in lower playfield routes ball to the kicker. Mechanical backbox animation (man tap dances).
- ipdb.notes
- Harry Hoppe was a long-time employee of Exhibit Supply Company until he formed his own firm on Paulina Street in Chicago, the Harry Hoppe Corporation, in the first quarter of 1939. 'Taps' was introduced in March 1939 (per a 10-year look-back article in Billboard Apr-2-1949 p154) and is the only pinball machine that we know his company made. By September of that year, Hoppe had become vice-president of the newly incorporated Baker Novelty Company, Inc. We are unaware of any games made subsequent to 'Taps' by Hoppe's eponymously named company or how long that company lasted.
Hoppe resigned from Baker Novelty in June 1941 and subsequently moved to the west coast, going into business for himself. He passed away in California in June 1942.
- month
- 3
- player_count
- 1
- reward_type
- Free Play
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Happiness
- theme
- Dancing
- year
- 1939