MARKETPLACE, VOL. XIV, NO. 3
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EDITORIAL
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PAGE 2, FEBRUARY 28, 1975
1975
For more years than anyone now alive in this industry can recall, back to
the late 1870s and early 1880s, baseball, the national game of these United
States, has been the leading theme of coin operated games. There have been
spectacular large cabinet games and there have been tiny counter games, all
with the grand game of baseball as their theme.
From the first year of pinball's very great popularity in 1931, various
types of baseball play action games began to appear on the ma.rket. This was
all culminated in the sensational, fully mechanical baseball game of Rock-Ola
Manufacturing Corp. - "World Series". A baseball pinball remembered to this
day by every old timer in the industry. A truly historical game.
A few years later came the first all-electric baseball pinball, designed
by Harry Williams and called, "Major League", that was presented to the indus-
try by the late Fred C. McClellan and his Pacific Amusement Mfg.Co. This was
the first of Harry Williams' many, many great baseball action pinballs thru-
out his career as head of Williams Manufacturing Co., Chicago.
From salesboards, sales jars, counter games, slot machines, to some of the
most realistic action games, baseball, the national game which has become in-
ternational in scope, has always led off the big spring training sea.son of the
major leagues as.baseball begins to dominate the headlines on all sports pages,
on TV, on radio, over every means of communication to the hundreds of millions
of baseball fans worldwide.
This year of 1975 may prove one of the most unique and most interesting in
all the history of coin operated entertainment. This is the year when the new
type video games can prove themselves where baseball action is concerned. They
have the field for realistic electronic action. They have the sound facilities.
They are, today, found in thousands of locations nationwide. Can they attract
the great patronage that baseball games have enjoyed over the years? Baseball -
1975 - will be a most fascinating sea.son to watch from spring training time to
the world series as the new video games come into being.
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