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……….No,
No! Really, I got a million of em………. Mr. FRFlemming:@ao
(Alan) wrote me on May 11, 2002 a small email talking about himself
and Phil Anderson:
Thanks for writing. My history with these games started in
1981, just about the time I got associated with Phil. My knowledge of these
games came from Phil. I’ve found the stories about players and the location
proprietors the most interesting along with the ways operators got around the
flood of regulations that aimed at these machines. It was interesting how
officials tried to define these games. The Sea Fair game is simply a Big Show
with odds no higher that 160 to comply with the laws. The glass was done by
Bally specifically for Washington State, which is Phil’s home state. His
history started with the one ball games. These games are of the most
interesting to him. I worked with
him on the route. We had some colorful players, of which the stories still
amuse us. Phil has amassed a great deal of knowledge and I would surely
consider him to be the greatest authority on these games, but it’s hard to
pin him down to take the time to talk about the games. Russ has spent a great
deal of time with him, which is great because Russ has done so much for the
hobby. I would be interested in the Hooker interview myself, as I know very
little about him and have always wondered about him. I only recently learned
that he passed away. Keep me posted I’ll look forward to hearing from you.
Keep up the good work Thanks ALAN. Recently I was on a mission to find another Big Time so “my
kids” would be able to play, and found one at the CA Extreme show. Man, what
a kick to play the machine again. I have to admit though, I’m still on the
honeymoon if you know what I mean. Although some might argue that the
gambling aspect is the attraction, in
a way I have to agree. Sure, it’s fun to have that “unknown” aspect of not
knowing what you’ll get from game to game. But show me a bingo machine owner,
and I’ll show you someone who would never turn down a trip to Vegas! Regards, Tom Clawges. Message 9 in Thread Date: 1998/09/25 Big Time came out in 1954 right after Palm Beach (53)…a matter
of weeks after. Nov I think, and the BT followed in Jan, maybe a s late as
Feb. Looks like your machine may be worth a little bit more, if
years count. The game is developed skill and learning is part of the “fun”. Message 10 in Thread Date: 1998/09/27
Oh yes I Worked on the very first ones, Bright Lites by
Bally…………..I remember when we un-packed the game and put it together….all of
us in the shop could not figure out why….the motors kept on running, and
running….because all of the other Pin balls, Never had a motor
running……….unless it had a run switch closed….But that was shock! HOWARD
LOWE. Message 2 in Thread Date: 1995/04/07
The machines were
“gambling” machines all the way! I’ve played 5 cent, 10 cent, and 25
cent based machines. Whatever the base was you could play many coins., in an
effort to raise the payout odds and features. Odds were expressed as 3
numbers (i.e. 4/16/96) which would mean 4 “credits” for 3 in a row, 16 for 4
in a row, and 96 for 5 in a row – There were 2 of these machines at a pool
hall when I was at Virginia Tech (1974-77). They were 10 cent based and you
could generally get a decent game for a buck. Message 2 in Thread Date: 2001-06-10 “6 cards vs. Mystic Lines” You can compare the features of the two
machines here and see which you would prefer. Six-card machines generally
limited coin play to avoid the “multiple coins to increase the odds”
definition of gambling machines. The switch on the bottom of the cabinet is likely a
“knock-off” switch, you push it when the power is on and it causes the
anti-cheat relay to open. When that happens, the replay reset relay closes
and the credits on the replay register get reset to zero. Bally removed the
“knock off” switch because it was specifically referenced in the Johnson Act
as a feature of a gambling device. Instead, you just turn off/on the game and
the same thing happens. Take care, Phil. 50 for Sale Bingo Pinball Machines, Bally: make offers Posted: 27 February 2007 1997 was a hot year for Bingo Sales:
Danny There is a fellow in Sparks, NV, Phil
Anderson, who has a business called American Pins. He is a
licensed person and former Bally employee who ran bingo routes at one time. They are
not legal in Nevada at the present time because the odds are not well
defined. He received certification as an
expert on the machines to be able to testify about the true odds going
through the reflex unit, spotting disk and mixers. Still, no approval because of a
lack of accounting system that seems to be built into modern slots. Phil partnered with Alan Marriage
to advertise and sell his warehouse of bingos and slots. Some of these
old machines are the one-balls, 1953 and prior. I came to know these fellows
through Hooper and Jensen. I bought my Silver Sails out of that
pile. The backup service for troubleshooting and parts has been good, so I really recommend them although
their prices may be a wee high. To say thank you to them for the
help and to help them sell machines, I have listed a part of their inventory
on my site. The Sea Fair is one of those machines; I tossed the photo over
to Hooper. Hooper explained that backglass
rescreening was done to alter the names and sometimes characteristics of
machines. Notice that Sea Fair odds do not go to the top. When law enforcement had a list of
"factory" machines defined as illegal, these machines did not fit
that definition. If you want to chase more history,
write to Alan as to see if he can elaborate on where the Sea Fair came from. Thanks again Ray CAROL'S CATASTROPHY:MISSED
PAYOFF ON A BALLY SHOWTIME BINGO
PinGame Journal 11/24-26
bingo dollar accepter THIS CONTINENTAL ONE BALL SIX CARD, ALL ELECTRONIC BINGO
MACHINE IS A TOP INCOME PRODUCER FOR OUR BUSINESS. MANUFACTURERED IN BELGIUM,
THIS MACHINE IS IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION AND COMES COMPLETE
WITH A JCM BILL ACCEPTOR HOUSED IN A METAL CASH BOX AND FLIPPER ASSEMBLY A LREADY INSTALLED. THIS MACHINE HAS AN OPTION TO CHANGE THE VALUE
OF EACH CREDIT, IS STREET READY AND IS A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR REDEMPTION ROUTE OR GAMEROOM.
FULL ELECTRONIC AND MECHINCAL METERS INSURE ACCOUNTABILITY. THE CONTINENTAL
ONE BALL HAS A MAXIMUM BET OF 650 CREDITS AND EXTRA BALL FEATURE. PLAYERS MAY CHOOSE EITHER THE
FIVE BALL OR ONE BALL GAME. AS THIS MACHINE IS EXTREMELY DEPENDABLE, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED VERY FEW MAINTENANCE ISSUES WITH THIS
MACHINE. OUR REVENUES INCREASED 100% WHEN THIS MACHINE WAS PALCED IN SERVICE.
BUYER PAYS ALL SHIPPING CHARGES. BUYER IS ENCOURAGED TO INSURE
THIS SHIPMENT. (In Fond Memory Of) Bingo r us Hello, My name is
Dr Bud Morrow, I have been dubbed "the largest seller of collectible
Bally Bingo Pinball Machines" on the net. It is strictly a
"hobby" to me and I DO NOT sell to
game operators who might place these old gambling machines back out in public
in violation of some state laws. I grew up playing these old games in
Ft. Smith, Arkansas in the late 50's and early 60's. I have grown to love the
hobby and am ALWAYS looking for warehouses full of stored bingo's
to buy and restore!! I am (55) now and am retired and have a doctorate in
Naturopathic Oncology. I have had cancer and got over it successfully
using "alternative therapy". I also sell on eBay under the user ID
"Bingosrus". lbarry7...@aol.com wrote: Anyone
know of this game. Is it rare? Thanks, Craig It's
a Bright Spot with an overpaint on the name and the fourth, fifth Phil B. Measuring
24" x 22" - this Bally Bright Lights Bingo Backglass
was Bally's first in-line bingo machine. Bally
saw the market for one-ball machines - which they practically owned - drying up due to legislation that specifically
identified one-balls as gambling devices. While United's ABC beat Bally to
market by a few months,
Bally's playfield layout became the standard for bingo's. Game play doesn't get much simpler than
this. Deposit one coin/credit per card, and shoot the five
balls. If you get three or more in a line, you win. This is also one of the
few games that had a manual ball lifter. It didn't matter if you shot all five
balls at once...there were no features that depended on you doing something
before a certain ball was shot, and there were no extra balls. The payouts were
adjustable by the operator using plugs inside the machine. Bally provided
different award cards for the operator to display on the playfield. The main
adjustement was for the 5-in-line score, which could be as low as 100. The game type has 6 5x5 bingo cards on the backglass. Most games enable one card per
coin/credit guaranteed, but a few enable the additional cards on
mystery intervals. Individual numbers light on all enabled cards at the
same time, and wins on
each card were scored separately, although only the highest winner on each
card counted (i.e. if you had two 3-in-line winners on the same card, you got paid
for only one. If you had a 3-in-line and a 4-in-line on the same card, you
got paid the 4-in-line amount). To encourage maximum coins to be played, the
payouts generally increased for
successive cards. The max payout for a game is usually only obtainable on
card #6. Burning bingos Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball From: "frog" <van.ne...@verizon.net> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:33:40 GMT Local: Sat, Jun 3 2006 12:33 pm Subject: recycling bingos with the prices for recycled copper nowadays, anyone willing
to venture a Back in the old days my Father and others would burn games and
then sell the Center for contemporary arts Rather than mirroring or representing reality, Gert Robijns’
(°1972) works are conceived as extensions of it. Robijns operates with a
minimum of signals that can be sounds but equally a change in temperature, a gust
of wind or a flickering light bulb, to generate a peripheral snippet of our
attention. Notwithstanding their minimal
enunciative potential, Robijns transposes these signals into extensive
installations. In 1997 he laid out an outdoor landscape made up of polystyrene beads hemmed in by the
boundaries of an existing tennis court and covered with a transparent plastic
roof. On the ground between the thick layers of beads, ventilators blew
the beads, occasionally exposing the terrain and placing its viewers in
another time where, between the play of natural and artificial wind, any
deceleration became a performance in slow motion. Robijns is focusing and
scattering our perceptions by adding sounds or images to a space like pixels
fill in the digital realm. In that enhanced space a network of triggers
unfolds like an index of space, time and subjectivity. Another work,
“Curtain,” is a video of a curtain projected onto a curtain in a 1:1 ratio.
The video creates the illusion of wind occasionally rustling the fabric, as if from
an open window, while an audio loop of incidental noises that are brought in
by the imaginary wind triggers recollected experience. Recently Robijns took on
a number of works from the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) in a comparable way, reproducing works of the collection in
life-size grayscale. A billiard table, a bingo pinball, and a number of
Robijns’ photographs and videos stand out on carbon copies of a painting by Bernard
Frieze, a triptych by Ettore Spaletti, and a table by Hermann Pitz. Like
muzak, where a number of frequencies are eliminated from sound to
divert or direct our emotions, Robijns cuts the over-and-undertones from the
works without ever really making them absent. The museum is put on
standby, the added ideological echoes of its space tuned down in order to
focus on a potentially new reification of signifiers.
Chuck's operators charged with
gambling promotion
Published 12/29/2006 By BECKY
CAMPBELL
Kingsport police officers seized these three vintage pinball machines
after Friday's arrests at Chuck's Drive-In. Contributed photo.
-------------------------- KINGSPORT - Lunch for four police officers in plainclothes on
Friday offered more than a meal after they saw a customer allegedly receive a
pinball machine payout from a Chuck's Drive-In employee. Kingsport Police
Department Vice Detective Sgt. Tim Crawford said he, a second KPD vice
officer and two 2nd Judicial Drug Task Force officers were eating lunch at Chuck's
on Industry Drive on Friday when they observed a customer playing bingo-style
pinball machines. The officers observed the man, later identified as Howard Lee
Nelms, 55, of Kingsport, playing the machines. At one point, Nelms nodded to
the restaurant manager, later identified as Theresa Marcus, 39, of Piney
Flats. Crawford said Marcus looked at the point totals on the machines, went
into the office, and returned with cash for the customer. "It was obvious she
was paying off the points total," Crawford said. Marcus' husband, Travis
Marcus, 38, also of Piney Flats, who co-owns Chuck's, entered the restaurant, and the officers
observed him have a conversation with Nelms about the payout, according to
Crawford. The officers approached the three about the activity. All three
were arrested - Nelms on a charge of gambling, and Travis and Theresa Marcus
on a single count each of aggravated gambling promotion. When police interviewed
her, Theresa Marcus said she paid the money because of an error in the
machine. In another statement to police, Marcus said she paid $50 for 500 accrued
points on the machine, according to Crawford. In addition to the arrests,
police seized three bingo pinball machines, $480 from Nelms and $1,650 from the
business. Travis Marcus and a business partner recently leased Chuck's and
reopened the iconic restaurant last month after a brief closure. The men said at the time the
restaurant reopened that they planned to restore it to a true drive-in and
would keep some of the longtime equipment - including those three vintage pinball
machines that are now evidence in three criminal cases.
nabestellen Onze programma's kunt u nabestellen via
de EO-Shop Gezocht: de Bally Bingo Parade en de Gay
Time Frans Pilger verzamelt al jaren unieke exemplaren Bally
Bingo’s, gokkasten uit de jaren ’50 en ’60. Een Bally Bingo lijkt qua
uiterlijk op een flipperkast. Bij Bally Bingo maak je met vijf speelballen
een combinatie in kleuren of patronen op het speelveld. Russ, I still love "Counterfeit Cowboy"..Play it
almost daily. About a guy who goes into a bar that has a Bingo machine. He
orders "Ten Rolls of Nickels, & a Schlitz" Right Russ???..EL Carl Witthoft writes: I wuz listening to a jazz show today, and they put on a swing
band number from the early 40's called "Pinball Paul." If anyone would like to download that song I just discovered
there is a copy of it on NAPSTER which I just finished downloading. Russ Jensen Glen Miller?
SØGES : bally super 7 - bingo pinballs maskine . en maskine
hvor man skyder 5 kugler , der skal kombineres med nogle farver i
gevinstfeltet, afhængigt hvor høj en indsats / scoore man har opnået. er der nogle her der kender sådan et spil
, og om det er til salg ??? jeg spillede det første gang i starten af 70'erne , er senest mødt på det ved "
bakkehuset " mellem hillerød - fredensborg i 1993 , hvor mønt indsatsen var 1 kr. - der var engang et til salg på QXL. men det var alt for defekt til at
jeg ville købe det,og der manglede alt for meget til det..... så hvis der er
nogle herinde der ved noget om det , så giv endelig besked .. på forhånd
tak. mvh leon. foreign chat Diskussionsforum für Flipper Bingo-Flipper Geschrieben von charly am 13.12.2002 09:45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hallo, suche dringend eine Bingo-Maschine. Bevorzugt: Golden Gate Silver Sails Miss America 75 Miss America Deluxe Miss America Supreme Wer so ein Teil verkauft, oder jemanden kennt, der so ein Teil
verkauft oder jemanden kennt, der jemanden kennt ... na ihr wisst schon :-) Bitte melden. Danke für eure Hilfe charly History IV At the height of its efficiency, Murder, Inc. was probably
responsible for a thousand killings from coast to coast. Guns and knives were
used, of course, but so were more imaginative methods like cremation, slow strangling,
quicklime and live burial. Some killers liked the icepick – properly inserted
into the ear, a skilled killer could scramble a bum’s brains and make it look like a cerebral
hemorrhage. One gangster who had cheated his compatriots out of their take of
a gambling operation was stabbed and then tied to a pinball machine and dumped into
a lake. Until it was broken by a stool pigeon with first-hand knowledge of
dozens of killings, Murder, Inc. operated quietly and ruthlessly, rubbing out gangsters who had run afoul of the cartel and lawmen who threatened its existence. D. The Rise of the Pinball Machine According to one commentator, slot machine gambling might not
have survived World War II if not for the rise of a wholly new form of
entertainment--the pinball machine.40 First marketed around 1930,
early pinball machines were nothing more than glass covered labyrinths
(constructed of nails or "pins") into which a player could propel steel balls. Numbered holes, into
which the steel balls rolled, provided the player with his or her score. With
the advent of electrification, they evolved into the pinball machine still
popular today, with an illuminated backboard, ringing bells, flashing lights,
and bright colors. Early pinball machines were designed solely for amusement purposes.
In 1935, however, pinball manufacturers added a new feature that ultimately
would be seized upon by gambling operators--the free replay.41 If
a player achieved a sufficiently high score, the machine would permit the
player to play one or more additional games without depositing another coin. With the
proliferation of the free replay, however, a new controversy arose as to
whether free replays transformed pinball machines into gambling devices. Pinball
machines clearly exhibited the elements of consideration and chance. Thus, if
the free replay was considered a "reward," all of the traditional
elements of gambling would be present. State courts were widely split on the
issue of whether free replays constituted a reward.42 While this divergence may
be attributed to differences in state statutes, there was also a more
fundamental difference in perception between those courts that viewed a free replay as a reward43
and those that did not.44 The courts that viewed free replays as a
reward often expressed concern over the difference in the return that could be received from
each coin.45 Some of these courts even peculated that free replays
might foster the gambling spirit.46 Courts taking the contrary position viewed the value of the free replays as de
minimis, or merely as part of the play given for the initial coin.47 Ultimately, free replays became an accepted standard, and were
no longer of great concern to law enforcement agencies. Gambling operators
exploited the free replay feature by adding knock-off switches and meters to
amusement-only pinball machines. With the advent of knock-off switches and meters, pinball machines clearly crossed over the gambling threshold. Under
this system, the number of free replays is registered on the machine. When
the player wants to "cash-in,"
he or she goes to the proprietor. The size of the payout will depend
on the number of replays registered on the machine. The proprietor then flips the knock-off switch, which erases the free replays from the machine. The meter records the number
of free replays that have been erased or "knocked off." The machine owner/operator, on a regularly scheduled trip to
the location, checks the meter and, from the
money in the machine coin box, reimburses the proprietor for all payouts made.48 Any remaining
profits in the coin box are then split between the proprietor and the
operator. The operator and the proprietor are thus left in the same position as if the machine itself
had made payments to the successful player.49 Although knock-off
switches and meters succeeded in transforming pinball machines into gambling devices, the
stakes involved were very limited. It was not long, however, before inventive
gambling operators found a way around this limitation--the multiple coin slot. The
multiple coin slot allowed the player to deposit more than one coin at a
time. As a result, a player's payout would increase proportionally to the number of coins
deposited. Alternatively, if the player had accumulated several "free
replays," he or she could play more than one of them at a time.50 With this
addition, the player could be playing a "nickel" machine, but still
have the chance to win over sixty dollars on a single play.51 On today's "quarter" machines, the gambler can win up to one thousand dollars.52 Custom Pinball Keychains. Name your game and we probably have it. These keychains are
approx. 2 1/4'' x 3 1/4'' inches, made with thick durable plastic. Your
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Keyring included. We have them from the late 1940's to the present day. Many
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Shipped in a Padded envelope. Shipping is $1.50. Price breaks at orders of 5 and 10+. Can email you Pics of your
choice. Checks or money orders gladly excepted, sorry no pay-pals or credit
cards. Posted: 21 April 2002 Pinball machines, like many other
mechanical games, were sometimes used as gambling devices. Some pinball machines,
such as Bally's "bingos", featured a grid on the backglass scoring
area. Free games could be won if the
player was skillful enough to get three balls in a row. However, doing this was nearly random, and the real use for such machines
was for gambling (similar to the way many places now use video poker). Other machines allowed a player to accumulate large
numbers of free "games" which could then be redeemed for money.
This type of feature was later discontinued, in an effort to legitimize the machines.
Nevertheless, on occasion pinball games have been regulated or banned,
notably in New York City
beginning in the 1940s and continuing until 1976,
when Roger Sharpe (a star witness for the Music and Amusement Association and
known by many to be a superb player), after testifying in April 1976
before a commitee in a Manhattan courtroom
that pinball games had become games of skill and were no longer games of chance (gambling), began to play
one of two games set up in the courtroom, and — in a move he compares to Babe Ruth's home run in the 1932 World Series — called out precisely what he
was going to shoot for, and then proceeded to do exactly so. Astonished
committee members reportedly then voted to remove the ban, a result
which was then followed in many other cities. Even so, some towns in America
still have these bans on the law books over fifty years later. (Sharpe
reportedly acknowledges his courtroom shot was ironically lucky.) Most recent
games are clearly labeled "FOR
AMUSEMENT ONLY" so that the manufacturer can emphasize
their legitimate, legal nature. Most happy to get rid of Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball From: "frenchy" <mf101...@msn.com> Date: 28 Sep 2006 16:32:28 -0700 Local: Thurs, Sep 28 2006 3:32 pm Subject: Re: What pin were you most happy to get rid of? The Zodiac bingo I
sold for $90 (at a great discount off what I paid.) My Life Howard Norfolk Pinball I bought a modern pinball machine for my first rec. room, and
then picked an ‘antique’ one from the 1950s. That sparked an interest in the
history of pinball and other games, and I started to collect and research them.
At one time I had four pinballs from the early 1930s, a 1937 Bally “Bumper”,
two 1950s ‘Bingo’ gambling pinballs, as well as the original two and some other
arcade games. I corresponded with foremost authority Dick Bueschel of
Chicago, who wrote a book: Pinball 1: Illustrated Historical Guide to Pinball
Machines. 1988. Hoflin Publishing. There are several photos of my
machines in this book, and I am thanked in the Preface. The North Vancouver museum once had a special
exhibition of arcade games, and I lent them some of my collection.
1931 "Whiz Bang"
1932 "The President"
1937 Bally Bumper
A corner of my living area at CapilanoRoad - ‘Frolics.” from
the ’ 80s’, screwloose 2001年11月26日(月)2時19分 御無沙汰です。
Seems to me that your "old" friend talks about a
bingo or "kast" as we call Hi All, There was also what appeared to be some kind of bingo or pin,
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