- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes ×11
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×13
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×3
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- United Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 2608
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2608/image-10.png"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 5 balls for 5 cents. Pop bumpers (3), Passive bumpers (13), Kick-out holes (11). Mechanical backbox animation (football players from different teams carry ball to goal post). No flippers. Cabinet measured 57 inches long, 29 1/2 inches wide, and 69 inches high.
- ipdb.notes
- We previously listed this game as 'Touch Down', a bingo machine, but it is actually a 5-ball flipperless pin game. It's instruction card and score cards are all marked "TD" at their bottom edges.
We find no ads or announcements from the manufacturer in The Billboard and The Cash Box magazines but did find several brief distributor references, all without pictures, and all spelling it as one word, 'Touchdown". We have changed our listing to show it as one-word.
The game pictured here was missing its backglass, and the backbox insert shows a light bulb arrangement identical to the backglass of United's 1951 'County Fair'. The playfield of 'County Fair' appeared in two versions, one that depicted horses and one that did not. The horseless version is identical to this 'Touchdown' playfield. We note that United's 1952 'Steeple Chase', which came out the same time as 'Touchdown' has the same horseless playfield art design but with different colors while its backglass insert has a completely different light bulb arrangement.
This game without its backglass could be easily misidentified as a 'County Fair' game except the backbox animation shows football players, not horses.
We also show in this listing a comparison of one of the 'Touchdown' score cards to one from 'County Fair' supplementing the idea that this game is an easy reissue of 'County Fair' from four months earlier but with a football theme instead of a horserace theme.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Football
- theme
- Sports
- year
- 1952