- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Roy McGinnis Company
- ipdb_id
- 3848
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3848/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3848/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3848/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3848/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3848/image-5.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Console cabinet. Backglass measures 23 by 23 inches.
- ipdb.notes
- 'Whirlaway' was a conversion of these 1-player games:
Bally's 1940 'Sport Event'
Bally's 1940 'Sport Special'
Bally's 1940 'Record Time'
Bally's 1940 'Dark Horse'
Bally's 1941 'Blue Grass'
We previously showed a date of 8-1943 for this game. The earliest Billboard ad we found is dated Jul-17-1943, page 78.
On page 77 in that Billboard issue, the Sullivan-Nolan Adv. Co. of Chicago advertised to convert Bally one-ball free play games just like Roy McGinnis was doing, mentioning by name four of the five games listed above, but did not specify new names for their conversions.
- month
- 7
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Horse Racing
- year
- 1943