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Baffle Ball
''Baffle Ball'' is a pinball machine created on November 19, 1931, by David Gottlieb, founder of the Gottlieb amusement company. Gameplay For one US cent (equivalent to cents in ) players get ten balls. These balls are fired up onto the playfield and fall into pockets and holes. Some ball targets are worth more than others, and players try to fire the ball at just the right speed. Unlike later pinball machines, ''Baffle Ball'' does not have flippers. The best target is the Baffle Ball at the top which doubles all points. The game uses no electricity, and all scoring has to be done by hand. Description While bagatelle-derived "marble games" had long existed previously, ''Baffle Ball'' was the first commercially successful game of its type, being affordable enough for store and tavern owners to quickly recoup the machine's cost. Up to 400 could be produced per day, with over 50,000 machines made in total, jump-starting the arcade pinball field. The game was also produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottlieb
Gottlieb (formerly D. Gottlieb & Co.) was an American arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is best known for creating a vast line of pinball machines and arcade games (including ''Q*bert'') throughout much of the 20th century. History Gottlieb's main office and plant was at 1140-50 N. Kostner Avenue until the early 1970s, when a new modern plant and office were opened at 165 W. Lake Street in Northlake, IL. A subassembly plant was also built in Fargo, ND. The company was established by David Gottlieb in 1927 with his brother Sol, and initially produced only pinball machines. In October 1932 the company moved to a factory four times the size of its previous one. It later expanded into various other games, including pitch-and-bats, bowling games, and eventually video arcade games (notably '' Reactor'', ''Q*bert'' and ''M*A*C*H*3''.) Like other manufacturers, Gottlieb first made mechanical pinball machines, including the first successful coin-operated pinball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater-than Sign
The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the right, , has been found in documents dated as far back as 1631. In mathematical writing, the greater-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is greater than the second number. Examples of typical usage include and . The less-than sign and greater-than sign always "point" to the smaller number. Since the development of computer programming languages, the greater-than sign and the less-than sign have been repurposed for a range of uses and operations. History The earliest known use of the symbols and is found in (''The Analytical Arts Applied to Solving Algebraic Equations'') by Thomas Harriot, published posthumously in 1631. The text states " a > b a b (The sign of majority a > b indicates that a is greater than b)" and " a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinball Machine
Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails called 'pins' and had hollows or pockets which scored points if the ball came to rest in them. Today, pinball is most commonly an arcade game in which the ball is fired into a specially designed cabinet known as a pinball machine, hitting various lights, bumpers, ramps, and other targets depending on its design. The game's object is generally to score as many points as possible by hitting these targets and making various shots with flippers before the ball is lost. Most pinball machines use one ball per turn, except during special multi-ball phases, and the game ends when the ball(s) from the last turn are lost. The biggest pinball machine manufacturers historically include Bally Manufacturing, Gottlieb, Williams Electronics and Stern Pinb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Cent
The penny, officially known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a United States dollar, dollar. It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the Half cent (United States coin), half-cent in 1857 (the abstract Mill (currency), mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance). The United States Mint, U.S. Mint's official name for the coin is "wikt:cent, cent" and the United States Department of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury's official name is "one cent piece". The wikt:colloquial, colloquial term ''penny'' derives from the Penny (British decimal coin), British coin of the same name, which occupies a similar place in the British system. ''Pennies'' is the plural form (not to be confused with ''pence'', which refers to the Penny, unit of currency). The first U.S. cent was Fugio cent, produced in 1787, and the cent has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinball
Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails called 'pins' and had hollows or pockets which scored points if the ball came to rest in them. Today, pinball is most commonly an arcade game in which the ball is fired into a specially designed cabinet known as a pinball machine, hitting various lights, bumpers, ramps, and other targets depending on its design. The game's object is generally to score as many points as possible by hitting these targets and making various shots with flippers before the ball is lost. Most pinball machines use one ball per turn, except during special multi-ball phases, and the game ends when the ball(s) from the last turn are lost. The biggest pinball machine manufacturers historically include Bally Manufacturing, Gottlieb, Williams Electronics and Stern P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagatelle
Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over. It probably developed from the table made with raised sides for ''trou madame'', which was also played with ivory balls and continued to be popular into the later 19th century, after which it developed into bar billiards, with influences from the French/Belgian game ' (with supposed Russian origins). A bagatelle variant using fixed metal pins, '' billard japonais'', eventually led to the development of pachinko and pinball. History Table games involving sticks and balls evolved from efforts to bring outdoor games like ground billiards, croquet, and bowling inside for play during inclement weather. They are attested in general by the 15th century, although the 19th-century ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcade Games
An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are presented as primarily games of skill and include arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games or merchandisers. Types Broadly, arcade games are nearly always considered games of skill, with only some elements of games of chance. Games that are solely games of chance, like slot machines and pachinko, often are categorized legally as gambling devices and, due to restrictions, may not be made available to minors or without appropriate oversight in many jurisdictions. Arcade video games Arcade video games were first introduced in the early 1970s, with '' Pong'' as the first commercially successful game. Arcade video games use electronic or computerized circuitry to take input from the player and translate that to an electronic display such as a monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Pinball Arcade
''Microsoft Pinball Arcade'' is a pinball video game from Microsoft. It was released on December 15, 1998, for Microsoft Windows and in 2001 for the Game Boy Color. The game is a collection of seven real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb. These include: ''Baffle Ball'' (1931), ''Humpty Dumpty (pinball), Humpty Dumpty'' (1947), ''Knock Out (Gottlieb pinball), Knock Out'' (1950), ''Slick Chick (pinball), Slick Chick'' (1963), ''Spirit of 76 (pinball), Spirit of 76'' (1975), ''Haunted House (pinball), Haunted House'' (1982), and ''Cue Ball Wizard'' (1992). The Game Boy Color version features scaled-down graphics, due to hardware limitations. It also excludes the ''Humpty Dumpty'' and ''Cue Ball Wizard'' tables. A free trial version of the computer game is also available, with ''Haunted House'' as the only playable table up to a limited point on the score. This game was designed for Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0, but it can also natively run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play-Boy (pinball)
''Play-Boy'' is a pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1932. The game features a card gambling theme. It should not be confused with several other pinball machines with the name ''Playboy'' as from Rally Play Company, Bally, Data East and Stern. Description After the success of ''Baffle Ball'', Gottlieb used the existing production line to produce a new game. The new playfield has card graphics and was cheaper to produce because the former game's cast metal pieces were not required. Player can play for accumulated points or play card games such as blackjack or poker with the glass ball. Play-Boy was a success and was the beginning of Gottlieb's long tradition of playing card-themed games. ''Play-Boy'' was advertised as 24 inches long by 16 inches wide (); an optional wood or metal stand was available at extra cost. 10 balls cost 1 US cent The penny, officially known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a United States dollar, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Pinball Machines
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