Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 6 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1933 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 2704 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Snap Traps ×4 used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Universal Novelty Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2704/image-1.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 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. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 1 cent or 5 cent play. 10 balls for 5 cents. Snap traps (4). Measures 35 inches long by 16 1/2 inches wide. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog universal-novelty-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog universe-3 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Universe used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog universe used