- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×19
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 5095
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5095/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5095/image-2.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Passive bumpers (19). The backglass shows an apparent rooftop view of a downtown city area with office buildings in the foreground and several taller, tower-like structures in the background. These towers do not appear to be meant to hold people and look more like art-deco fantasy than representative of real structures. The downtown area is bisected by an aerial viaduct full of long, streamlined cars in motion. Several aircraft are depicted on the playfield.
- ipdb.notes
- According to Dick Bueschel in the Jan 1994 issue of GameRoom magazine, 'Towers' was the last game Keeney made before the War Production Board banned the production of non-essential items during WWII. He stated that Keeney never advertised 'Towers', and estimated its date as Jan 1942. Bueschel went on to say that this game was advertised in the Sept 1942 issue of The Coin Machine Journal by the Buckley Trading Post, a wartime reseller of games. Lastly, he said that General Vending Sales advertised 'Towers' as a used pre-war game in their July 15, 1947 catalog and indicated it was a free play game, selling for $39.50.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1942