Bingo Pinballs
Created on 07-30-2015
- Last Update 12-31-2015 |
~ Hunting down Don
Hooker patents takes some patience, but it’s well worth it ~ For you hunters out
there: Trying different combinations in the search-fields is a must, variants
like: Donald E. Hooker, D. E. Hooker, Hooker
Amusement, and Hooker Ray are all warranted. A great many of the ones I found
I backed into off of the “credit
declarations” shown at the end of many “amusement
apparatus” patents out there and off “dates”. In 1953 Bally
introduced Palm Springs and the Hold Feature that would allow the player to
“second guess their skill shots” if they wanted too
with the opportunity to return the balls and start over. Using a cool set of
buttons on the footrail, the player was allowed to
return all of the balls, or just the odd or evens balls as desired –
Pretty Trick: ~ The following game
built right on top of this and gives the player a second-second-guess if
enabled – 1954’s Surf Club ~ Well most of you have
seen the back of the common playfield, but to pull this of Bally had to
develop a 2nd Mechanism to do this and likely a third, because
1979’s Tahiti even had a third variant of this feature: ~ Big Time and Surf
Club – Side-by-Side ~ You’re gonna
love this! - Don Hooker Steps-Up: ~ Check this next one
out carefully! ~ ~ Now read this one
very very closely - ~ ~ Paragraph #16 is
describing a game we’ve never seen before Bingo Fans! ~ Mr. Hooper is slowly
going through my website pages right now and correcting them (way cool) and I
can’t wait until we get his feedback on this
“gem.” Although Don used this basic concept on the
Hold/Double-Hold games, if I read this theory-of-operation correctly: This bingo
was never released and the playfield was a very special part of the
electro-mechanicals in it, where the PF would look at the
winning combinations on the backgalss and would recommend to the player
(allow the player) to “release the balls that may be
deemed with undesirable score significance” blah, blah, blah – A
Smart Playfield interacting with the player. Way-advanced compared
to the Belgium Tri-Color-LED playfield design that shows the player the next
best shot, Don’s idea here seems to tell the
player what the best balls to hold are and then let’s them shoot the
rest again……….. ……Totally
Cool…… ~ ~ Keith Nickalo kindly
sent in some Tahiti pictures for us ~ ~ |
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