Last Update Jan 2022
Bingo Pinballs
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Bally
Nashville If
you grew up with the multi-coin games, this Bingo might seem a little sterile
and confining` Here
you have to play (10) coins if you want everything
enabled and the features are always the same` Now
toss in that the numbers on the cards are fixed, and it can quickly seem
you’re always playing the same game` Next
the payouts were less than the older machines too: At 10-cents you were at
$1.00 at 25-cents you were at $2.50 right` Well there are (2) two payout settings (controlled by the
owner/operators) 4, 40, 240 and 4, 44, 300 – So the math stands out` Say
you are playing dimes and you hit the 4-in-Line shot at 44 _ $4.40 for a
$3.40 profit on Card-6 _ $2.00 on Card-3 _ So unless you are
also hitting the Double-or-Nothing, you really aren’t making any money` The
3-in-Lines only payout 40% across all (6) cards, so these fell pretty short of Bally’s promise of a 70% payout`
Admittedly each card
paid out the highest score, but for the most part you basically lost on these
Bingos` With as few photos as there are of
these things (hardly any) I have to wonder how many
of these things were made and, if
they were only a small run and made for a specific market like Tennessee -
etc. Being
a 1978 machine, it very well could be true. Even here in 2019, there are very few pictures of
this Bingo` These are
reduced-size image, the originals are posted below` The size and weigh of these babies
tipped in at a little over three hundred pounds – You simply
didn’t shake these around like the other Ballys.
On this bingo Bally added in a feature called the “Magic Numbers
Doubling Features”, which was Rock’n
Cool – If the player entered nine coins, this mystery feature was
enabled for the first 3 cards and on the tenth coin, enabled for cards 4, 5,
and 6. If only nine coins were enter, after the first ball was release a
random number on the first three cards was lit – that set-up extra
scoring. If ten coins were played, the random numbers immediately lit up and
the first ball was yours to control with the numbers in effect. This feature
increased a players chances for the largest payout
ever offered on a six card game ever and almost always made the players drop
in the extra 9th and 10th coin to have it lit. Nashville also had Super Lines
which light up at random or through the roll over button on the playfield
when lit, Red Diagonals (7th and 8th coins), 4 corners (random and rollovers
when lit on playfield), Magic Numbers and Double or Nothing yes, but still not a lot of circuitry, so I don’t know where the weight came
from` _ This baby laid the ground-work for the “incredibly
popular” Dixieland which also released in 78” _ _ Piece of “Bingo Trivia”
for you – This is the only Bally not listed in Jeff Lawton’s
Bally Book _ ~ If you have one of these, please
send Phil and the IPDB a set of pictures, including some nice cabinet shots!
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2019` Here is
the original photo Dennis Posted on the IPDB Some
random images from an old folder` 2021 It is kind of interested how often
you see these two games together` 2022 Yep, a few extra
parts here, but a very nice modification, quality work` I never made a page
for these until late 2017 And although I am
not too sure about these 1978 Bingos, I must admit each time I look at these` “I am
starting to Reconsider” ~ |