Bingo Pinballs
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Russ Jensen Introduction: THE
'QUEENS' GAMES series of unique pingames which
employed 'number sequences' as a major game objective. Like the
"bingos", these machines had no flippers, but in all other respects
resembled an amusement pinball. With one exception, BEAUTY CONTEST, the names
of all these games contained the word
"queens", and for this reason I refer to them as the "Queens
Games". The other games in this series were: BEACH QUEENS, BEAUTY
QUEENS, TROPIC QUEENS, and ISLAND QUEENS. These numbers were lit by hitting
bumpers, etc, on the playfield. Lighting various amounts of these 'girls' (it
was how many numbers, not which ones that counted) would
result in different amounts of replays being awarded to the skillful player. Some of these games allowed the player only 1 ball and others two or five.
~ Light-A-Lady Scores – Cool ~ A few weeks ago Mark W from “Ohio” was kind enough to write
in with the serial numbers from his bingos, which to my surprise included a
Beach Queens – Very Cool, since I have never seen any of these games and it
reminded my that I have a few photographs and goodies that I hadn’t shared
with everybody yet. Mark Email #1 The guy I got the Queens (and Dixieland) from also has a Yacht Club,
Palm Beach, and a 51 United ABC. He said he never did get all
11 girls on the queens, not sure how long he had it for. I haven’t yet
either. I have another friend with a yacht club also and another with an
Atlantic City. I will try to get some more s/n's for you. Jeff has
been here at my house, great guy. He knows his stuff that’s for sure! He
is not very far away. I still haven’t gotten over there to see and
play his collection. Mark is referring to Jeffery Lawton there (cool) Now these are single-coin games and One Balls and look
like they are a blast to play – In the Don Hooker Interview he talks about
how “he wished he would have got a patent on the “kicker” he invented, he
would have been rich, since it was used on most every flipper game since” –
These are the games Don invented them for and here is a follow-up from Mark
telling just how effective these two-coil kickers are: Hello Danny, They are serious slingshot kickers that can send the ball all the way to the top of the playfield. Mark
Those “assemblies” right below the two lower gals are
what we and the flyer are referring to _ When they sense a ball touching
their face, they respond in an instant, with a forced-kick that sends the
ball shooting back up the playfield.
~ All the photos above are Beach Queens ~
~ A flyer I found while searching around some Italian
websites ~ ~ Now I have never seen a Tropics Queen picture and no one
I have talked to has ever seen one or a machine!
~ Seven Seas is not on Russ Jensen’s list of games, nor
on the flyer, but neither is Waikiki ~
Hmmm! – I wonder if there is a connection there _ I have
some detail now on Royal Distributing and it warrants it’s own page! ~ …..Some game-play notes from Mr. Croci…… Also, there are two strange
slingshots which use two coils instead of one. They work in this way: the
main coil (115 volts) is energized through the usual playfield switches,
providing the slingshot action and remaining latched; but quickly the other
coil unlatches the first. These slingshot assemblies are more powerful than
the normal ones we usually find in a flipper-type pinball. They are capable
of shooting the ball to the upper zone of the playfield. Not bad, in a game
without flippers! An eject-hole is present in the center which is the type
usually found in Bally games built some years later, with automatic
ball-return. Yes, this game actually HAS automatic ball return! And not a motorized
ball lift like on Bingos, there is a normal ball-return eject hole, identical
to the one described above! Hitting any of the numbered bumpers
lights the corresponding girl on the backglass. A close look at the inside
wiring discovers that girls 10 and 11 are tied together (kinky, eh!) so in
truth, there are only ten girls to be lit. These two figures (10 and 11) can
only be spotted by entering the eject hole in the middle of the playfield. In
fact, this eject hole can spot any two of the 11 girls. You can change the
current "girl to be spotted" by hitting any contact on the
playfield. Only trouble is the eject hole is aimed directly at the out-hole
and, as you have only one ball per play, this is something to beware of! Now for a look at the scoring. Four
rubber rebounds score 1,000 as does the thumper bumper. The dead bumper and
the eject hole score 5,000. These points can be useful for competitions, but
no award is baséd on the scoring. What you really need to do is to spot the
girls. At the end of the game, a minimum of six girls lit, awards two
replays. If you have seven lit you get four replays, eight awards eight
replays, nine girls awards 20 replays and all 11 girls lit awards 100 to 180
replays!! Replays can only be played. It's
not possible, like on bingos, to buy extra balls, change the odds, etc. Note
that turning off the machine resets all the remaining credits. Considering
that usually no one would have the will to play something like 180 games,
this is obviously provided for the benefit of the operator, to permit him to
pay to the player the value of the remaining credits and then subtract them
from the machine. The left side door can be very
useful in this context. The owner can give the operator keys to the left door
only, to permit payment of credits with coins taken from this secondary cash
box without having to give access to the main cash box and the inner
mechanisms. Considering the whole game, it plays very fast, due to the fact that there is only one ball per play and no flippers. I don't think Bally built it only for providing spare parts for bingos: BEAUTY CONTEST is very well thought out. It is a real gambling machine, very different from the usual bingos or slot machines. ~ <<<Associated Links>>> http://danny.cdyn.com/Queen%20Machines.htm ~ Bingo-Style Pinballs – I will ask Mark if he will send in
some pics of the Score Card! ~ ……Stay Tuned!…… |
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