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Contact, the very first Electro-Mechanical pinball game!
In this video I'll demonstrate playing 1934's Contact pinball game. Contact was the first Electro-Mechanical pinball game, and was designed by Harry Williams.
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hello and welcome back to will it work a
little something different today than my
normal videos I have recently come into
possession of this vintage 1934 pinball
game from the famous Harry Williams
called Contact what makes this so
special is that it is the very first
electromechanical pinball game the first
one with electricity
now there were some electrified one-off
Bagatelle tables you would find at
certain circuses or carnivals but not
what we think of as a mass-produced
commercially available arcade game like
this
so what makes contact different what
does the electricity actually do
Well normally it would have been powered
off of a six volt dry cell battery
located in the bottom of this side of
the Playfield however this has been
converted to just having a wall adapter
so you just plug it in and go
and there's two holes here that have
solenoids in them right here worth 800
points and right here worth three
thousand points if you get balls into
those holes and then you get another
ball up here into the contact hole the
solenoids will kick the balls out they
will roll down to the lower hole which
is worth more points and if you get more
balls in there and hit the contact again
they'll roll around that ball and drop
down to a third hole which is worth even
more points so essentially this is the
first game with Progressive scoring also
when you hit the contact hole a buzzer
will go off as well so it gives you
movement and sound something that wasn't
available prior to this game also any
ball that goes into the contact hole is
returned to the player to shoot out
again
so let's see and this is the Tilt
mechanism down here it's on what they
called a pigeon stool so when you put
your penny in the ball would roll back
up in the center on this little raised
stool and then if it fell off you tilted
