Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (2 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Kickers used IPDB Passive Bumpers ×10 used
- theme
- IPDB Happiness used IPDB Dancing Flipcommons Catalog Dancing used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 3 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1939 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 2499 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- reward_type
- IPDB Free Play used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB The Harry Hoppe Corporation used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2499/image-1.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 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. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 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). used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog the-harry-hoppe-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog taps used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Taps used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog taps used