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Chicago Coin was one of the early major manufacturers of pinball tables. Pinball is a type of coin-operated Arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more Metal balls on a playfield inside a Glass Chicago Coin, founded in 1931, would make pingames and modern pinball machines for over 45 years before being sold to the Stern family in 1977 and becoming Stern Electronics, Inc.

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Early history

As its names implies, Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company was located in Chicago, Illinois, which was the center of the pinball and arcade game industry since the early days of the coin-operated amusement industry. Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies Stern Electronics Inc Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Chicago Coin was formed in 1931 by partners Sam Gensburg, Lou Koren and Sam Wolberg. Chicago Coin was one of the early major manufacturers [1][2] Incidentally, Sam Gensburg's three brothers Louis, Meyer, and David formed a rival pinball company called Genco. Genco would remain a competitor with Chicago Coin until the companies merged in 1959. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

The first Chicago Coin pingame was actually manufactured by Stoner, a manufacturing partner of Chicago Coin. The game was called Blackstone and was made in 1933. The first original Chicago Coin game was a pingame called Leland, produced two months after Blackstone. In 1935, Chicago Coin produced Beam-Lite, which sold an astounding 5,703 units.

Chicago Coin's first pinball table to have flippers was Bermuda, released in November 1947. Unlike the "big three" of the post-flipperless pinball industry, Chicago Coin was often seen as not being as innovative as rivals Gottlieb, Williams, and Bally. Gottlieb (formerly D Gottlieb & Co) was an Arcade game Corporation, which was established by David Gottlieb in 1927 and first produced Pinball WMS Industries Inc ( is a long-standing American electronic gaming and amusement company based in Waukegan Illinois. This article is about the Bally company a manufacturer of slot machines and pinball machines Worse, CC pinball tables were often seen as being inferior in quality to their more popular rivals. Chicago Coin would struggle to shake this reputation throughout its existence.

Later history

Chicago Coin, more so than its main competitors, tended to be a general purpose arcade amusement company. The company made products such as shuffle bowling games, electromechanical car driving games, and skeeball tables. Bowling is a Game / Sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a Bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called pins Skee ball (also spelled skeeball, ski-ball or skee-ball; sometimes called skee roll) is a common Game found in arcades In 1973, Chicago Coin attempted to get in on the Pong craze by releasing two of its own arcade game consoles: TV Football and TV Hockey. Pong is a first generation Video game released originally as a Coin -operated Arcade game by Atari Inc The company also manufactured a unique arcade videogame item in 1975 called Super Flipper, which was essentially a video game simulation of pinball with a display monitor housed in a miniature pinball cabinet. In spite of these efforts, Chicago Coin was in financial trouble and by 1977, the company's assets were sold to Stern Electronics. Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies Stern Electronics Inc It is erroneously believed that Stern Electronics, Inc. became Data East Pinball, which became Sega Pinball, which became Stern Pinball, Inc. This is untrue as interviews with Gary Stern, president of all 4 companies has pointed out. Stern Electronics, Inc. went bankrupt in 1984 and did not become any other entity.

Notable Pinballs

Chicago Coin tables are often lesser known than those made by Gottlieb, Williams, and Bally. Nonetheless, there were several CC tables that were more distinguishable than others.

References

  1. ^ "The Early Pinball Books" by Russ Jensen
  2. ^ "Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2: Contact to Bumper 1934-1936" review by Tim Ferrante

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