- gameplay_feature
- Gobble Holes ×12
- gameplay_feature
- Free Play Holes ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Pickrum-Weaver Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 6659
- ipdb.notable_features
- 5 balls for 5 cents. Gobble holes (12), Free play holes (2). "Figure 8" playfield layout. The backboard is the size and shape of a traditionally-styled mantle clock and has a mechanical score display visible through a small window to show the score incremented each time a ball falls into either of two 500-point free play holes, returning this ball to the player. Only the free balls increment this scoring device, identified on the game as a "clock". All other balls fall though gobble holes and reappear in corresponding channels under a large horizontal viewing glass at the front of the cabinet, where their point scores can be added up visually by the player, to be then added to the clock score to calculate the final score. This viewing area is lower in height than the playfield and below it is the player-accessible trough to which all balls are dropped at start of game. The game looks weighty from the size of its square legs.
- ipdb.notes
- This is a full size pin table with a cue stick in place of a ball shooter assembly. The playfield is under glass and has a "Figure 8" layout with artwork almost identical to Gottlieb's 1932 'Five Star Final' with respect to the size and shape of the two-color stars. All colors used on both games are identical, although the outer red circles are narrower on the Gottlieb game. Both games have the same placement of holes and with the same point values. Unfortunately, this cue game did not have its name visible anywhere in the pictures that we saw, although the upper playfield was obscured in the pictures by glare on the playfield glass.
We know little about Pickrum-Weaver Corporation except it was credited by A.B.T. Manufacturing Company as "co-developer" of their A.B.T.'s 1933 'Autocount'. Pickrum-Weaver was located in New York on 188 West 4th Street, the same address used by Chester-Pollard Amusement Co., Inc. in their ads.
- player_count
- 1
- reward_type
- Free Play
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical