Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (3 fields)
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 6815 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Game-O-Golf Mfg. Co., Inc. used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-10.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-11.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-12.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-13.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-14.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-15.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-16.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-17.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6815/image-18.png"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB We presume 10 balls per play. This nickel game has a square instruction card on the lower apron indicating Game-O-Golf Mfg. Co., Inc. located at 5647 Stewart Ave. in Chicago. All we know of this company is that it appeared on a 1931 list of Corporations, indicating the president was E.J. Brady and secretary was C.P. Loeper. The playfield shows a 1929 copyright to George Deprez. In The Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 1, author Dick Bueschel writes that Deprez was a janitor who hoped for success with his new invention and had applied for patents, but the Great Depression and lack of investment capital ruined his hopes. Jack Sloan, at that time on the advertising staff of The Billboard, called on Deprez to look at this game and subsequently interested Nick Burns, an arcade operator and owner of In & Outdoor Games Co. of Chicago, to manufacture it. Burns contracted with Deprez for the exclusive rights to the game, its pending patent applications, and its name, setting up production at 5647 Stewart Avenue. Jack Sloan recommended to Burns that a coin chute be added to the game to get them into the coin machine business, also recommending the game be made by Midway Pattern Company at 5756 S. Wentworth Avenue, two blocks from 5647 Stewart Avenue. At Midways' plant, they met up with E.J. Brady and C.P. Loeper to make it happen. Their first handmade game was placed in an arcade in August 1930, and the first Billboard ad for it appeared in their Mar-28-1931 issue, where their listed address is colocated with Game-O-Golf at 5647 Stewart Ave. (Billboard later stated this ad was "the first pin game advertisement".) By March 1932, Bueschel writes that In & Outdoor Games had produced advanced versions of the Whoopee Game. An article in Automatic Age, Feb 1932 page 263 stated that Brady and Loeper were joint owners of In & Outdoor Games and had only marketed the game for Midway since it was produced. In an Automatic Age ad placed by them in August 1933 page 38, In & Outdoor Games described themselves as exclusive licensees and manufacturers of their Whoopee Game. Unlike the Whoopee Game shown in this listing, the one made by In & Outdoor Games has a round instruction card on its apron and is a shorter 48 inches in length. It had no left-side opening in its wood rail for hand-placement of balls. We don't know where this longer cabinet game made by Game-O-Golf fits into the timeline explained above. It would appear that Sloan's two recommendations (to add a coin chute and to move production to Midway) were implemented at separate times. Until we have more or better information, this listing remains undated. See also In and Outdoor Games' 1931 'Whoopee Game'. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Nickel play. Balls are delivered at start of game to an external trough on the right front side of cabinet. Player hand-places each ball into the right-side alley via a hole in the wood rail above the trough. The rules indicate if a ball shot into play returns to this right-side alley, the player forfeits a ball by hand-placing one of the unplayed balls into a left-side alley via a hole in the left-side wood rail. Also, if the special gold-colored Whoopee Ball lands in either of these alleys, the game is forfeited. Cabinet measures 57 3/4 inches long, 28 1/2 inches wide, and 30 1/2 inches high. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog game-o-golf-mfg-co-inc used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog whoopee-game-3 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Whoopee Game used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog whoopee-game-3 used