Welcome to my Bingo Pinball
pages!
Let me guess: You’re here because you’re completely lost
or because you searched on one of the following sets of keywords:
Bingo pins, Woodrails, Feature Games, Gambling
Pinballs, Money-Makers, Magic-Line Games, Select-A-Spot Games, 3-In-A Row
Games, Pay-Out Pinballs, Bally Bingo Machines, 2-Card Games – etc!
Well, you’re right on the money because all of these
monikers are correct and much much more!
In my short history with
these pinball machines I have seen them referred to by many titles and
basically, we are talking about "flipperless" pinballs that have 8
steel balls, 20-to-25 holes in the playing field, and at least one "bingo-like"
score card poised in the upper cabinet.
We are talking quite a history here, where these Bingo
machines have their history stemming back to 1951 and names like:
Bright-Lights, Coney-Island, Bright-Spot, and Spot-Lite..........
.........and their roots go back even farther to the early
"Bagatelle" and "one-ball horse race" machines
__________Yes! These
pinballs have a tough reputation_________
Including people balkang at them as being to hard and complex to work on, but I
say “nuts to that” and that between this site, Phil Hooper's, and some hints
from the pinball forum "rec.games.pinballs" you can get your game up
and running easily enough.
Yes these machines tied to the 1950s and 60s "Organized Crime" scene,
to gambling, to dens of inequity, and to the "Johnson Act" anti-gambling
laws!!!!!
But that’s just one little piece of the excitement, romance, and mystic
surrounded these pins!!!
Bottom Line: These
Bingo-Style machines are about fun and about having something to show-off and
sharing with family and friends.
A chance to hang on to a little piece of America's history and to just liven-up
your day when needed.......
Last updated: 12/05/2007
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