- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 6962
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6962/image-1.png"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Panascope display. Cabinet with tapered legs advertised as 59 inches high, 30 inches wide, and 18 inches deep overall, weighing 155 lbs.
- ipdb.notes
- This is not a pinball machine. This is a device called an "electronic upright" or just "upright". Also called a "flasher type" slot machine. It does not payout cash. The credit meter increments instead, allowing for continued play without insertion of additional coins.
Keeney announced this game in Cash Box, Sep-3-1960, page 51, where Paul Huebsch, vice-president and director of sales for J.H. Keeney & Company was quoted as saying, �The �Panascope� viewer was not an accidental engineering feat, but, rather, was created and completely perfected after many painstaking months of research and development in our engineering department. It took, many, many hours spent by our engineers formulating scoring ratios and other vital scoring units, to make available to operators a handsome profit margin by placing �Twin Red Arrow� on location. These scoring potentials cannot possibly be incorporated into any hastily contrived imitation.�
The device to which he refers, a projection device and one of three used in this game, was invented in 1956 by Industrial Electronic Engineers, Inc. of North Hollywood, California, calling it an �In Line Readout� and designed to compete with the Nixie tube that was leading in the market at that time. While Keeney did not create this projection device, no doubt they invested much time and energy to calculate their scoring ratios and the game mechanics involved in employing it.
- month
- 9
- player_count
- 2
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1960