- gameplay_feature
- Snap Traps ×4
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Universal Novelty Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 2704
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2704/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1 cent or 5 cent play. 10 balls for 5 cents. Snap traps (4). Measures 35 inches long by 16 1/2 inches wide.
- ipdb.notes
- The manufacturer advertised this game as having the name "Universe" while the playfield itself carried only the manufacturer's name "Universal".
In the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 1, Eddie Ginsberg, co-owner of Universal Novelty, tells a story of how Ray Maloney, President of Bally, called him up and got him to cease manufacture of this game, as it was copying Bally's 1933 'Airway'. Ginsberg agreed because, he said, the game wasn't selling.
Compare the playfield layout to C. F. Eckhart & Company's 1933 'Wahoo', a game which came out two months later, without snap traps, and for which we have no information as to whether or not Maloney was aware of it.
- month
- 6
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1933