Bingo pinballs

This Page Last Updated 06-15-2010

~ This question keeps popping up! ~

From: newguy@hotmail.com - dated: 1997/05/08
Is there such a thing as a solid-state bingo pinball?

From: ecorl@cbclegal.com - dated: 1997/05/08
Bally made one solid state Bingo. The entire production run, ~1000 units, was shipped to Belgium. None were offered for sale in the U.S. The name of the

game was 'Continental'. The Bally model number was 1195E. Several Belgian and Spanish companies have attempted to produce their own

Bingos and some have shown up in the U.S. but they seem plagued with problems.

Belgium Bingos follow-up - dated: 1997/11/12
A while back somebody asked if bingo games were still being made, and I responded that I'd seen an ad but no longer had it. In this month's AB Europe magazine there was an ad for Wimi Games in Belgium and their latest bingo product "Royal Seven." According to the ad the product is a solid-state game with sound, speech, and multiple alphanumeric displays. The art is very simple - a playfield much like the old style bingos, and with 7 bingo cards there's not much room on the backglass for any art other than the logo. The cabinet looks to be made of varnished wood, with a chrome lockdown bar with A-B-C-D-E buttons on the left and two buttons on the right (though one might be a lock - hard to tell). The coin door looks like a black pinball style door, only it features an extra ball button in its upper left corner and a start button in its upper right corner. As for features, it looks like it has a ton (as the last solid state games did) - magic number, super lines, diamond patterns, various scoring features, extra balls, etc. Of course in a modern solid state game each one of these features doesn't add extra weight to the game! :) These guys have a website and their ad also advertises that they have "All kinds of second hand bingo machines." The ad also gives Eurautomat as their address, Tel +32 (53) 83.94.94. Other than the ad I know nothing about this company, as well as nothing about shipping games to/from Europe.

Follow-up dated: 1999/10/15
Solid-state Bingo's are still being made in Belgium. Comes in "traditional" looking, (fake) oak cabinets. Yes, I agree there's magic missing. It's a great feeling when you take a 600-1200 credit win, ticking up 1 credit at the time(takes ages)! Now there's a 2 second beep and it's all over. Cairgp@remrod.demon.co.uk

~ In truth, Bally had more than one solid-state Bingos if you also count in the Mid-60s 20-Hole “Special Game” feature machines like this Super 7 ~

~ Bally used transistor-logic for the “Special Game” feature on all of these machines ~

~ Note how they covered the circuitry to keep it from foreign-object-damage, heat, dust, and dirt – LOL – Someone knew their Bingos! ~

Super 7 and Bonus 7 were Bally’s “Shoot 7” games often referred to by the players as Diamond Games. In-house at Bally they

referred to these as Diamond Feature games (see their manuals) On these bingos the Special Games feature let you score on

the first two balls if you wanted/if you could. The diamonds above each number were numbered 1-thru-6 and if your first two

balls totaled 7 in score you could collected the lowest payout illuminated on the odds row . If you decided not to, you could

go on to play the games “as is” in the “Shoot 7” mode and with it’s Double-or-Nothing feature you could work at

doubling the score over the next 3 balls towards a maximum payout of 576 nickels…

These were pretty cool games!

~ To make the logic easier on these Special / New Games, Bally was wise to step into the immerging-solid-state technology! ~

~ Bingo Pinballs ~

Bingo pinball, in-line games, in-line, woodrails, 3-in-line, 4-in-line, 3 card, 3-card, 4 card, 4-card, woodrail, cdyn, phil hooper, danny leach, vic camp, hugh kown, jeff Lawton, bingo, antique pinball, nickel machine, nickel, nickel pinball, bally pinball, united pinball, united bingo, bally bingo, Dixieland, beach club, surf club, hifi, triple play, illegal pinball, outlawed pinball, Johnson act, gambling machines, gambling pinball, horserace games, sirmo, seebeen, igt, gaa, g.a.a, bingo games, bingo pin, high score, danny.cdyn.com, Raymond watts, ray Maloney, si redd, don hooker, reflex unit, bingos, no flippers, flipperless pinball, danny, leach, 5 cent pinball, 5 cent bingo, bingo card, backglass, playing field, 25 holes, 28 holes, 20 holes, coin box, replay meter, gay time, big time, showtime, gayety, Malibu beach, magic squares, ok games, ok game, ohio game, bally hole, Chicago pinball, miss reno, miss queen, miss bowling, miss bowling turbo, continental, 6 card games, 6 card bingo, add a card, add a ball, payout pinball, payout machines, sea fair, bonanza, miss Tahiti, caravan, starlet, rio, manhattan, ticker tape, wallstreet, sun valley, mixers, relays, coinbox, hoppers, dime machines,