Skill Pool

Description

Skill pool is a mid 1960's williams game. Briefly described, it was a reverse wedge design. The play field had a set up where balls were racked. Each ball had a button that would register as your rolled over it. Once you rolled over all of the balls, points would register and a ball would light up on the backglass. There were also holes that the ball could drop through for additional points (but you lost the ball).

Skill Pool was produced by Williams Electronic Mfg. Co. (1958-1967) in 1963.

Williams Electronic Mfg. Co. (1958-1967) released 119 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1958. Williams Electronic Mfg. Co. (1958-1967) was based in United States.

Other machines made by Williams Electronic Mfg. Co. (1958-1967) during the time period Skill Pool was produced include: Friendship 7, 3 Coins, 4 Roses, Four Roses, King Pin, 1963 Major League, Big Deal 1963, 1963 A.L. Twins, Beat the Clock, and Jumpin' Jack's

Specs

Name	Skill Pool
Developer	Williams Electronic Mfg. Co. (1958-1967) (United States)
Year	1963
Type	Pinball
KLOV/MOG #	5476
Sub-Type	Electro-Mechanical
# Maximum Players	1
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Skill Pool KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Skill Pool Census

There are 15,351 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,707 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,340 machines (7,021 unique titles).

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Skill Pool collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Skill Pool machine for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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Foto-Finder® (Books)

Pinball An Illustrated History Colmer (ISBN 0451799666) Page: 115; Black and white photo Price guide: No
Pinball Machines Eiden Lukas (ISBN 0764303163) Page: 41; Black and white photo Price guide: No
Pinball One: Illustrated Historical Guide to Pinball Machines Volume 1 Bueschel (ISBN 0866670475) Page: 225; Black and white photo
Pinball, The Lure of the Silver Ball Flower Kurtz (ISBN 1555213227) Page: 56; Black and white photo Price guide: No
Pinball Compendium : 1930s - 1960s Shalhoub (ISBN 0764315277) Page: 154; Color photo

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