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Contributors to this record: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer), Flipcommons Catalog.
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- Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer)G. M. Laboratories, Incorporated was a Chicago manufacturer with a remarkably inventive but short-lived pinball presence in 1935 and 1936. Only eight titles are presently cataloged, yet the line is unusually rich in mechanical ideas: [[title:builder-upper]] uses multiball and a rotating carousel mechanism, [[title:par-golf]] turns scoring into a sequential golf challenge, [[title:shoot-the-chutes]] combines captive balls and lighted action, and [[title:soccer-2]] uses miniature kicking figures to send the ball toward the goal. With the exception of [[title:junior-2]], the company's output was predominantly [[technology-generation:electromechanical]]. That concentration of feature-driven designs gives G. M. Laboratories a profile larger than its production totals suggest. Its games belong to the mid-1930s moment when pinball makers were rapidly adding electricity, moving parts, and more elaborate rule concepts in order to stand out in a crowded Chicago market. Even without a long corporate history in pinball, G. M. Laboratories stands out as one of the period's more mechanically ambitious minor manufacturers.
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- G. M. Laboratories, IncorporatedFlipcommons Catalog
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- g-m-laboratories-incorporatedFlipcommons Catalog