Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 11 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1944 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 3578 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Williams used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Williams Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/Overall_view.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3578/image-7.png"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 'Zingo' was the first pinball game by this manufacturer. Williams' first game of any type was a fortune-telling arcade machine called 'Select-A-Scope'. According to Bueschel's book Pinball 1, Williams took other standard pinball machines of the time and created this one. However, none of the games mentioned looked at all like this game, so we are less inclined to call 'Zingo' a conversion that we are to say it resulted from a reuse of cabinets or parts from those source games. From an interview with Harry Williams on April 2, 1979, pinball historian Russ Jensen later wrote that Harry stated he "made one mistake in the design of that game, that of putting a "slope" to its playfield (instead of being perfectly vertical) because, [Harry] said, it made it more difficult for the player to shoot the ball with any velocity." used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 5 balls for 5 cents. Vertical cabinet. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog williams-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog zingo-2 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Zingo used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog zingo-2 used