Thinking it may be Gottlieb (of the big 3) but by how much? I guess it could be measured by both titles and/or total units made. Are all pin production numbers known? I do understand some individual game numbers are not reliable. Any way to make a ball park estimate? Ex.
X 750,000
Y 500,000
Z 250,000
Did one company make 2 or 3 times the number of pins as the next? My uneducated guess would be:
#1 Gottlieb
#2 Williams
#3 Bally
My gut reaction would be Gottlieb--they had flipperless games out in the 1930s and was still putting out some EMs up until 1979.
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?gtype=EM&mfgid=410&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced
525 entries on IPDB for EM games.
Bally was late to the pinball EM scene...they did quite a number of bingo, bat, and novelty games first.
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?gtype=EM&mfgid=412&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced
552 entries on IPDB for EM games (including bingo, bat, and novelty)
No production numbers on Williams:
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?gtype=EM&mfgid=413&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced
384 entries on IPDB for EM games.
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