Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (1 field)
- theme
- IPDB Wartime used IPDB Warfare used IPDB Naval IPDB Military IPDB Combat used IPDB Aircraft used Flipcommons Catalog War used Flipcommons Catalog Naval used Flipcommons Catalog Military used Flipcommons Catalog Aviation used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 3 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1942 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 6623 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (10 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6623/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6623/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6623/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6623/image-4.png"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 450 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This is not a pinball but appears on a Bally pinball list. It is a pellet gun game. We are aware of two examples of this game having cabinet serial numbers 1544 and 1557. From the pictures we saw, a bell is in the backbox. A bell housing is on the inside of the right-side access door but we don't know if that is an actual bell for game play, a bell timer, or the protective housing for a soundless time clock. This game started production on 12-15-1941 per Bally documentation. The earliest ads we could find for this game were from two distributors, both in The Billboard, Mar-21-1942, pages 81 and 82, where one of them advertised this game on its list of "New Games For Immediate Shipment" and the other indicated, "Ready for Immediate Delivery". We found other ads from distributors through May but found no ads placed by the manufacturer throughout 1942. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 125 shots for 5 cents. The flat playfield has nothing attached to it but is entirely artwork depicting a battle at sea as seen from the air, with battleships and fighter planes. At top end of playfield, three targets inside a single housing move simultaneously along the playfield's edge, diving out of player's view and re-surfacing to simulate a submarine. The targets have caricatures of the faces of Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini. No manufacturer name is present on the backglass which has the name TORPEDO in the very center and also depicts a battle at sea. A pistol is mounted into the front of cabinet to aim and shoot pellets at the moving submarine, simulating torpedoes. The goal is to shoot and hit the three targets to increase score. The targets light when hit. Each scores 100 points when unlit. When all three targets are lit, each scores 1000 points. Target lights turn off when submarine dives. There is an access door on the front end of each side of cabinet. Above the right-side access door, a large torpedo design can be unscrewed from the cabinet to reveal a long open slot in the wood through which the flat playfield can be slid in order to access the mechanisms beneath it. Sound: 1 bell. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog torpedo-6 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Torpedo used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog torpedo-7 used