Last Update Jan 2022

Bingo Pinballs

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! ~

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”

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