Elaborate scoring rules add to the fun on this first commercially successful pinball game. Matching the color of the ball with the color of the pocket doubles that point. A ball remaining on the Baffle Point doubles the score of the entire game. D. Gottlieb & Co. 1931.
Baffle Ball was produced by Gottlieb, D. & Co. in 1931.
Gottlieb, D. & Co. released 632 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1929. Gottlieb, D. & Co. was based in United States.
Other machines made by Gottlieb, D. & Co. during the time period Baffle Ball was produced include: Trip-L-Jax, 3 Jacks Pocket, Funland, Roll-Et, Baseball Roll-Et, Baffle Ball Senior, Bingo, Miniature Baseball, Stop and Sock, and Battling Champ
Name | Baffle Ball |
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Developer | Gottlieb, D. & Co. (United States) |
Year | 1931 |
Type | Pinball |
KLOV/MOG # | 768 |
Sub-Type | Mechanical |
Class | Wide Release |
# Maximum Players | 1 |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
Controls |
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This information was found at http://www.yesterdayland.com/ :Players would get five balls. Using the plunger, the ball was launched to the top of a sloped playing feild. It would then roll back down, being deflected by pins as it did so. The object was for the ball to drop into holes in the playing feild or at the bottom. You had to keep score in your head as there was no score keeping system on the game.
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Being so small and with no electrical ways to prevent it, the game was often tilted to make the ball go where you wanted.
This game is considered as the first pinball game. It shows where the 'pin' in 'pinball' came from. The game uses a ball and the playfield had pins, hence the name 'pinball' was born.
This game was invented in Chicago in 1930 by David Gottleib. The game was a hit, selling 50,000 units at $17.50 per unit.
A sequel was made in 1932 called Baffle Ball Sr. and in 1935, a Baffle Ball remake with electricity was created. This game also can be found on the "Microsoft Pinball Arcade" for PC's.
The game was only 16 x 24 inches. It was designed to set on a counter top.
There are 15,220 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,649 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,619 machines (6,982 unique titles).
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