Talk:Skee ball

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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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)