Talk:Skee-Ball

I'm not sure of the best way to add this, but Skee-Ball was acquired early on by the Philadephia Toboggan Company, toboggan in this context meaning roller coasters. They evolved into Skee-Ball, Inc. See this page http://www.skeeball.com/company.asp?company=2 It was not uncommon for amusement park ride companies to make midway oriented games - I have in my collection a similar game made by Spillman Engineering, related to Herschell-Spillman Carousels. Jafafa Hots 07:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

added. Jafafa Hots 00:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Morris Goldberg

I removed the paragraph on Morris Goldberg, as Google searches for both "Morris Goldberg" + Skeeball, and "Morris Goldberg" + Skee ball, and the only result that wasn't a mirror of the English Wikipedia, was this, which briefly mentions the man in passing.

And besides, the article stated that there "are records of his manufacturing plant at Coney Island as early as 1927", and that "most of the Skeeball games at Coney Island for at least the following 20 years came from his company, leading some to wonder who really invented the arcade game", yet the same section, higher up, says that they were invented in 1909, and that they were first sold to the amusement park industry in 1914. So, if most of the skeeball games in one part of the country were made by one company, starting in 1927 until 1947ish, how can that company have invented the game, if it had been in fairgrounds for at least 13 years previous?

That's the reasoning for me removing the paragraph. --Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 07:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Renaming the page

I think that the item should be spelled Skee-Ball, since it is a copywritten name, and that is the way the company spells the name of the game, according to the official Web site: http://www.skeeball.com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Purplesuperstar (talk • contribs) 18:14, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Ticket pulling

Ticket pulling is a common issue for all redemption games, and the vast majority today use preassembled ticket dispensers from Entropy or Deltronics, both of which have integrated into their ticket mechs lockouts that prevent the ticket ribbon from moving after it's been pulled a certain length (roughly half an inch). My point is, it probably could be expanded on, but since it isn't really Skee-Ball specific, does it really belong here?

On a side note, modern Skee-Ball and clones have a barrier over the playfield preinstalled, usually made of some kind of clear plastic, and will automatically end play after the correct number of "scores" (balls falling through score holes) have been counted, regardless of whether the ball return switch has sensed that number of balls returning. This serves to counteract the "catch" attack, as well as having the game continue onto the next credit more quickly.

PS: Skee-Ball is an actual company and makes a wide variety of games including redemption, cranes, and carnival-sized "midway" games. Shouldn't this be a disambiguation, or at least have a disambiguation header? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.87.96.159 (talk) 10:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

iPad game

Though I don't have any "hard" information to add, I now have an iPad version of Skee Ball, apparently licensed and approved by the trademark owners. Worth adding to the article? JoeJJC (talk) 21:21, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

"Skee" = "ski"

"1907: Joseph Fourestier Simpson of Vineland, N.J. applied for a patent around a new game idea that had a 'skee-jump' mechanism on an alley to launch a ball into targets that had a built in automatic scoring mechanism." (from the manufacturer page already in the external links) Adding this to the article would clarify that the origin name is based on "ski-jump" and not "skeeter"/"mosquito" in spite of the latter apparently being in use as a back formation per the lede, but I'm not sure that using that source as a reference would be appropriate due to primary source and marketing issues. The book referenced might mention it but I don't have access to a copy right now. Mapsax (talk) 22:28, 22 May 2020 (UTC)