Bingo
Pinballs
Created on 07-19-2010 _ Last updated 07-28-2019 1952
pinball design in the United States`
…and
No` we are not going to “really” tell you about these machines` Bingo
Pinballs are all about gambling and the less you know the better – Just
give us your Nickel` |
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For the average player most of the Bally manuals are useless,
but some are not - If your manual says “Confidential: Do Not Leave
Instructions In Game” on the front then likely you have one of the
really Cool ones that actually help explain some of the games features and
operations as well as how to make some of the machine adjustments. Palm Beach is an example of a user-friendly and helpful manual`
Palm Beach was released in 1952 and is a very cool bingo. I really
like how they laid out the backbox, placing the cards lower in the frame and
pushing the Advancing Odds up top with all of the artwork, it just has a
great look to it. Although said, I’d definitely change up the lower
cabinet’s color scheme to better fit with that predominate blue bg,
that looks great with the varnished wood trim. I am pretty sure that Palm
Springs was the first bingo with the Super Cards feature that I have always
thought was neat, where the Rollovers will help you get there by lighting the
center numbers if enabled. I have had all of the 54 Bally’s (-1) and it
seems 10 was always an easy number for me to peg for free. Now, Palm Springs
also had a “Mystery Spotem” feature and 3 Extra Balls, so playing
some additional coins to enable the extra features on this bingo, really made
sense even though the Reflex Unit and Mixers would try to work against you: However said, Palm Beach is one of the exceptions: Manual pages 3, 4, and 5 provide some nice detail for
understanding the game – Which was ironic, when you consider that Bally
instructs the Owner/Operators to hide it- Laugh!
Now Bally’s direction for treating this manual as
“Super Secret” was built around the fact that the operators could
adjust the maximum payouts on the Super Cards and this kind of stuff was kept
on the down-low as not to upset the masses or opening any doors for cheats.
~ Now check out that page number “582” ~ Now even though said (that these were pretty good manuals) Keith
pointed out this “oddity” out to me one day, while we chatted
about “what the cabinet serial numbers might mean”, musing just
how much is there about Bally’s numbering systems we do not really
know. Likely the documentation on these machines was excellent and Bally only
doled out what they thought we really needed – Thank God, Phil came
along to save us all! http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/palm_beach/
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