Bingo Pinballs
Created 06-16-2019
Richie starts out a nice, what I call a “mixed
thread” here – Bingos being discussed on a general pinball forum where you get
a
folks that both know and don’t know the games
– Smile, 1959 through 1960` heck only a few of us were playing back then`
Even later for that matter` 1974 through
1978`
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in the pool halls
richiebalto
04-21-2013,
05:39 PM
I know alot of you guys must remember these machines.
Nickel a game and almost every pool player in my home room played them for
days, banging away trying to get that little silver ball in the number to win
games.
Some that i can remember are the Laguna beach and Ballarina, laguna had the oks
on them and the Ballarinas had the 2 in the blue and many other ways of winning
points.
I can remember a few pool players having their hands all beat up after playing
one of those machines for hours and hours.
There was a few certain guys that did have the ability to beat them, of course
they were the smart ones that would jack the machine up on one side (without
the house man seeing them of course) so all the balls would roll to that side
they wanted.
Those were the days!
vasilios
04-21-2013,
05:54 PM
I know alot of you guys must remember these machines.
Nickel a game and almost every pool player in my home room played them for
days, banging away trying to get that little silver ball in the number to win
games.
Some that i can remember are the Laguna beach and Ballarina, laguna had the oks
on them and the Ballarinas had the 2 in the blue and many other ways of winning
points.
I can remember a few pool players having their hands all beat up after playing
one of those machines for hours and hours.
There was a few certain guys that did have the ability to beat them, of course
they were the smart ones that would jack the machine up on one side (without
the house man seeing them of course) so all the balls would roll to that side
they wanted.
Those were the days!
The ole Bingo machines --- Galaxy -Ms America - Red White Blue
Fun to play - plus make a hit
bill
wontonny
04-21-2013,
06:03 PM
I prefer Stocker myself.
Nine ... corner
04-21-2013,
06:23 PM
I prefer Stocker myself.
Lol ... planning on going to West Point?
I have a 1976 Mataharie Bally pinball machine in my game room.
wahcheck
04-21-2013,
06:46 PM
Aha...one of my first introductions to gambling....teenage
years....smoking and banging those bingo machines for 3, 4, 5 in a
row.....listening to the games clicking on and on when you hit a big
one....Some machines I remember......names.....Pixies, Triple Play, Monaco,
Laguna Beach, Manhattan Beach....features included....selections, OK, umc
buttons, super cards (3 in row scores 4 in row), Lite a name, 4 corners scores
5 in row....on those nickel machines you could dump rolls and rolls of nickels
into just to jack up the odds and get all the features; end up playing one game
for 5, 6, 7 bucks a game....wish they were still around.....I used to go to
Reno Nevada just to play them in some casinos.....all gone now....
Donny Lutz
04-22-2013,
07:44 AM
The ole Bingo machines --- Galaxy -Ms America - Red White Blue
Fun to play - plus make a hit
bill
In 1968 (an election year), the state of Wisconsin decided to crack down on
gambling. Undercover agents moved around the state for six months, culminating
with mass arrests for such things as giving free games on pinball machines. I'm
not making this up! I was arrested for selling a $2 tip on a Packer game to an
undercover agent!
Interestingly, an employee at one of the local pool halls was a bookie and he
used to actually post the Vegas odds on pro sports on the top of the glass
candy counter. I watched the local sheriff place bets from this sheet. Of
course, he was not included in the above-described sting operation...
...some things never change!
ctyhntr
04-22-2013,
08:37 AM
I heard pinball was banned in NYC until 1976. So even if Ames
wanted, they couldn't legally have pinball machines.
Back in college, my fraternity got a free pinball machine. It broke down within
a month. 1/3 of the brothers studied electrical engineering, and you figure it
was a piece of cake. None of them were able to get it working again. :-(
bdorman
04-22-2013,
08:49 AM
AZers always talk about gambling and hustling at pool.
But for me, it was pinball that paid for lunch and dinner. Either I'd bet $10
on a 3-game high score, or just put in 25 cents, run up 31 games (max) and sell
the box to some guy for $2.
But today's boxes are boring; all flash but no skill.
kale73
04-22-2013,
09:00 AM
This is true, if you can even find one, way to many magnets
screwing up the newer games play. way to many bells and whistles. Bring back
all the classic pin ball games. I remember going down to the corner store in
Cheswould DE ( no I can't spell ) and they had an early pinball game . No
electric plug, all mechanical, 8 balls for a nickel. This was just one of my
favorite games of all time. BRING BACK PIN BALL PLEASE!!!!!
wahcheck
04-22-2013,
09:07 AM
When pinball is discussed, some people seem unfamiliar with the
old bingo type gambling games without flippers........those are the ones I used
to favor; not your common flipper type games which do not pay out.....I
remember in San Francisco at the old Palace Billiards on Market St.....you
would climb these long stairs to the 2nd floor and the first thing to greet you
was about 6-8 of these pinball machines side by side......the next to greet you
was any one of several hustlers coming up to you, asking if you wanted to play
some; even before you reached the front desk to get pool balls..........
FELIX
04-22-2013,
09:08 AM
I remember the guys playin one ball low score ,saw a lot of
twenty dollar bills change hands back then , 1966 - 1969 best rob
franko
04-22-2013,
09:58 AM
Aha...one of my first introductions to gambling....teenage
years....smoking and banging those bingo machines for 3, 4, 5 in a
row.....listening to the games clicking on and on when you hit a big
one....Some machines I remember......names.....Pixies, Triple Play, Monaco,
Laguna Beach, Manhattan Beach....features included....selections, OK, umc
buttons, super cards (3 in row scores 4 in row), Lite a name, 4 corners scores
5 in row....on those nickel machines you could dump rolls and rolls of nickels
into just to jack up the odds and get all the features; end up playing one game
for 5, 6, 7 bucks a game....wish they were still around.....I used to go to
Reno Nevada just to play them in some casinos.....all gone now....
In the room I played in the machine was called Fun-Way many of the players were
hooked on it.
Dead Money
04-22-2013,
10:09 AM
If you guys ever make it to Austin you gotta check this place out!
http://www.pinballzarcade.com/
They have a bunch of pinball machines including many of the old school classics
with bells and reel type scoring :D
http://www.pinballzarcade.com/games-to-play/pinball-games :eek:
richiebalto
04-22-2013,
01:20 PM
The ole Bingo machines --- Galaxy -Ms America - Red White Blue
Fun to play - plus make a hit
bill
These were the 20 and 25 numbers pinball machine?
The nickel on the string worked for awile, until they put the cutters down in
the nickel slot, that would cut the nickel off of the string and your nickel
would drop in the box (that was the only way i could win or cheat i shal say).
david(tx)
04-22-2013,
01:33 PM
I know alot of you guys must remember these machines.
Nickel a game and almost every pool player in my home room played them for
days, banging away trying to get that little silver ball in the number to win
games.
Some that i can remember are the Laguna beach and Ballarina, laguna had the oks
on them and the Ballarinas had the 2 in the blue and many other ways of winning
points.
I can remember a few pool players having their hands all beat up after playing
one of those machines for hours and hours.
There was a few certain guys that did have the ability to beat them, of course
they were the smart ones that would jack the machine up on one side (without
the house man seeing them of course) so all the balls would roll to that side
they wanted.
Those were the days!
In the late 60's i got 2 dollars on the weekend , my Dad would pay for my pool
time as a plus sometimes but he hated to see me spending money on the pinball
machines . The pinball machines is wear guys would put their arms when playing
chicken with a cigarette , don't think they wagered anything .:smile:
LucasBilliards
04-22-2013,
01:37 PM
I never was really good at pinball but it'll keep you hooked for
hours. When I was a teenager, anywhere I'd go and see a pinball machine I had
to play it, it would call my name from across the room.
As a side note, there is a Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas that my wife and I
came across with rows and rows of pinball machines from all eras and genres.
There were even a few pool themed machines. Really cool, if you're ever in
Vegas and wanna kill some time look it up, it's not too far off the strip. We
spent a couple hours in there feeding quarters into the many machines, good
times.
Toncam
04-22-2013,
03:14 PM
I heard pinball was banned in NYC until 1976. So even if Ames
wanted, they couldn't legally have pinball machines.
I dont think so. In Queens we had them all over the place, we used to have
tournys on Sat afternoons in this candy store with the grand prize, a whopping
$5 !
Also had a bar box in the same place, we got ahold of the keys to it one day
and copied them and we used to rob the quarters out of it once a week, lol.
This had to be about 74-75.
DoubleA
04-22-2013,
04:08 PM
We have 2 in our local room(Miss America and Magic Gate), play
them a lot.
4thHorseman
04-22-2013,
04:27 PM
Dixieland
My Dad used to take me to a club he belonged to when I was a kid. I grew up on
a machine just like this.
https://sites.google.com/site/dixielandbingopinballmachine/
If I hit, Dad got the money but would treat me to something.
Sealegs50
04-22-2013,
04:35 PM
From 1988-96, my basement not only had a pool table, but it also
had a Bally Monte Carlo pinball machine. The scoreboard glass was painted by
Dave "Mad Dog" Christensen. The glass was worth more than I paid for
the machine. Without schematics, it would go for 6 month stretches when I
couldn't make it work. But I always found the bad contact after a bit of
effort. I sold the machine when I moved from the area. The guy who bought it,
still owns it and it still works.
http://www.flippers.be/books/book_maddog.html
Great memories!
Catahula
04-22-2013,
06:39 PM
When I was going to school in New Orleans in the late 60's the
city was full of them. Locals I hung out with called them "biffers".
Cash payout by the bartender if you hit.
Declared illegal on or about the mid "70's". They rounded up all they
could find and dumped them in the middle of the Mississippi.
PaulieB
04-22-2013,
06:45 PM
I had a pinball machine in my home man cave called Millionaire...
it had multi ball, talked to you, ramps, and a roulette wheel inset in the
middle of the playfield. Was a great machine.
People would decide they didn't like losing money to me on the pool table so
they would challenge me to pinball. I would open up the machine to hit the
switch to get a play credit for free. What they didn't know was that when I hit
the button for me, I would reach up and adjust the tilt mechanism in my favor
but when I hit the button for them, I would make the machine more sensitive for
tilts.
Silly bastards. :)
wahcheck
04-23-2013,
08:19 AM
When I was going to school in New Orleans in the late 60's the
city was full of them. Locals I hung out with called them "biffers".
Cash payout by the bartender if you hit.
Declared illegal on or about the mid "70's". They rounded up all they
could find and dumped them in the middle of the Mississippi.
That was a damn shame.......many of those machines were works of art created by
geniuses....I don't see why they would be trashed in that way.
I wish they were still around; I'd certainly play them.....they were more fun
than ordinary slot machines.....
allanpsand
04-23-2013,
11:15 AM
In the early 60's, when I started wasting my teenage life at the
pool hall, part of the group's definition of good were knowing how to play 8
ball, 9 ball, and winning free games on the two pin ball machines.
I got so good that I always had to leave a dozen free games on the machine in
order to go home on time.
:angry: Had lots of buddies ready to take over as they reminded me that I had
to leave. :angry:
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