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Bingo Pinballs

Well as I was looking through the IPDB today at the Don Hooker listings and I noticed two very odd things worth highlighting for posterity.

The first is this little gem I present below to tantalize you and to help further define the many riddles surrounding these pins!

Bally’s 1952s Miss California

Photo courtesy of Mike Lico

Hmmm! – But not just a name change, the extra balls are also missing…..

Which segues nicely into the purpose of this spin, to skirt California Law:

This game is a version of Atlantic City with a different backglass and the Extra Ball feature removed. This was done for certain areas in California where awarding of an extra ball was not permitted.

Well, according to the “unassigned” note in the IPDB description area for this machine.

What is real interesting is that none of the IPDB detail is assigned names, which is very unusual for the bingos

Here’s a link to Phil’s Atlantic BG Photo just in case you’re curious:

http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/atlantic_city/resources/bg-l-1.jpg

Splin Belgium California

I thought I would throw this tidbit in as a bonus……lol……

Since I know no one other than me (until now) has ever seen it……

If I am correct, this was an “early-era” 6-card that Splin offered for sell here in America and it was never ordered and just never took off, so only a few backglasses survive!

They work the heck out of these 6-cards in order to hit every possible market.

This page last update 03-29-2008