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Now you all
know that I constantly question the accuracy of the IPBD, but here I have
to commend them, because
they had this
bingo we did not and they correctly identify it as a Wimi machine based
upon that small top-right
black-and-gray
box containing the Wimi logo.
Now things get
interesting, when you start comparing this machine to a Sirmo New Orleans
and the other photos I
just recently
found below _ Let’s start with the comparison to the New Orleans on
the backglass:
The top-left solid gray box is
exactly where Sirmo’s name was on New Orleans
This backglass
is one-to-one with features to New Orleans except for the extra boxes
(bars) on each of the cards.
Along with
Sirmo’s top name tag, the Double-Nothing feature is grayed-out and so
is the Sirmo Top Numbers
feature, as
well as the extra (unknown feature) cards on each card _ Basically they
stripped all the Sirmo ties
and deleted the highest payout
features.
Now
let’s continue the comparison with playfield:
This the exact
New Orleans playfield except for the different Score Cards
This is
clearly a “transition games” that helps support the theory that
Sirmo & Wimi where closely connected
together
during the early years _ Maybe Wimi is an offshoot……
Now I just
found these two pictures, which prompted to write this page and which seem
to show the bingo with both companies names on it:
 
This bingo is
slightly different in several aspects: The logos seem to both be there in
their respective top corners, the
playfield here
is different and I think unique to this bingo, the center-left
“orange” box containing the Sirmo Top
Numbers game
feature is now green and something different, the Double-or-Nothing feature
is different than New
Orleans, the
footrail is minus coin slots, and the extra bar (center white) is in place
on each of the cards here????
This seems to
be the Super Continental intended _ “Super” in every aspect
Not only do I
think this is the Super Continental _ I think it was released at the same
time the companies were a
Single Entity
getting ready to split _ The “Smoking Gun” if you
will…….
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