For Amusement Only EM and Bingo Pinball Podcast

Super-7 brings a new layout to the Mystic Lines and the Super 7 bonus game! The bonus game requires you to hit two holes that add up to 7, then hit alternating red or yellow holes. These bonus games sound so difficult and fun! Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/super_7/resources/bg-super_7-1.jpg Playfield: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/super_7/resources/pf-super_7-1.jpg

Safari has a unique 'tower game' on the right hand side of the backglass: the Animal Feature. You coin this up with the white button, and the idea is that several holes on the playfield will move you up or down. Ideally you move either all the way up or all the way down. This will light the giraffe, which gives you your best payout! The same Mystic Lines gameplay from London returns, including the...

London is a Mystic Lines bingo with a couple of really cool features. There is a "Twin Numbers" feature that will light either 17 or 18 if you get one or the other number. Same for 11 and 19. That is a really powerful extra feature. The 'tower game' on this machine is the "Triple Play". In this case, the game has a symbol for each hole on the playfield (three different). Your first ball can land i...

Venice is a 20 hole bingo machine. This game carries forth the Double-Up special game from the previous game, Orient. In this case, the max payout has been increased. The same alternating hole gameplay applies, though. I think this feature would be very fun. All 4 star zones can also pay up to 900 replays! Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/venice/resources/bg-venice-1.jpg Cabinet: ht...

Orient is a great 20 hole game with an entry into a whole new world of features: solid state! That's right, in 1967 Bally was using solid state in a production game! The solid state component is a 'white-button' feature - a whole separate game that will allow you to play by alternating sinking even and odd numbers. Very cool, especially as you have to pay attention to the main Mystic Lines game un...

Bahama Beach is the next to last beach-themed bingo that Bally produced. The beach themes are iconic and (mostly) timeless, aside from the swimwear. This game contains all the features of the previous, but entirely new artwork, in case the cabaret theme was too racy. It may also have been a sign that the game itself was very popular, as with the flipper games that reused the same layouts and rules...

Folies Bergeres is the sister game to Beauty Beach. It also contains the ability to double or triple one set of odds, quadruple deck scoring, extra balls, the red letter game, all 4 star zones score 300 or 600 replays and Mystic Lines! Flier: http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3105&picno=5764

Beauty Beach contains all of the features of the previous game, Border Beauty, but adds tripled odds for one color. Along with, it can double odds for one color, has the red letter game, and can award 300 or 600 replays for all 4 star zones. The Mystic Lines return for this game as well. Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/beauty_beach/resources/bg-beauty_beach-1.jpg Cabinet: http://bi...

Border Beauty is the first 20 hole bingo pinball game. It has a brand-new feature: Mystic Lines. This moving numbers feature allows you to swap columns of numbers on the left and right side of the bingo card, and move the center column up and down two positions. Border Beauty also allows you to double any color. Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/border_beauty/resources/bg-border_beau...

Fun Spot '63 is the last of the "Ohio Dime Games" that Jeffrey Lawton has written about in "Bally Bingo Pinball Machines". These games award score rather than replays, and will retain your score from game to game, though it will reduce by 500 with each new game. As Jeffrey mentions in tonight's correction, the games always required a single coin drop. At that point, it will tick down your score un...

Shoot-A-Line is a one-off Bally bingo that has a unique playfield layout: 28 holes! Each row contains 7 holes, which would make this very challenging. Especially because each bingo card only contains 25 numbers! The backglass and cabinet artwork are not very inspired, and I am curious as to why Bally experimented with the playfield layout and iconic image, but the playfield artwork is pretty great...

Lido is one of the two Futurity games (Bikini is the other). Often praised for their use as home games, these games will allow you to save up your OK game and play it at a later time. In this way, rather than relying on the green odds to advance to a particular point before really playing to light the OK feature, you can earn advances on the Futurity for even low green odds. Lido has a fantastic a...

Barrel-O-Fun '61 and '62 and Fun Spot '61 and '62 are "Ohio Dime Games" as Jeffrey Lawton calls them in his book "Bally Bingo Pinball Machines". I've wrapped four games into one episode since Barrel-O-Fun '61 and '62 are the same game (run in different years), and Fun Spot '61 and '62 are the same game as Barrel-O-Fun without the replay button on the front of the game. These games are six card bin...

Can Can is a beautiful magic screen bingo with a great feature set. This game has extended time, rollovers, extra balls, a blue section that scores 300 or 600, an orange section that scores as green or gives the OK game. On top of all that, you can also light both super sections (which allow you to score 2 as 3, 3 as 4, and 4 as 5) via the white button on the front of the cab. Backglass: http://bi...

Lite-A-Line is a fantastic, difficult six card bingo. This machine has the possibility of a random, spotted center number, and yellow lines, which score differently than the rest of each card. Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/lite_a_line/resources/bg-lite_a_line-1.jpg Cabinet: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/lite_a_line/resources/fly-lite_a_line-1.jpg Playfield: http://bingo.cd...

Touchdown is the first Magic Numbers bingo that Bally produced. Instead of a 2x2 square of numbers that rotates, you have a 3x2 rectangle that rotates! Pic-a-play returns with triple-deck scoring, an extended time tree, a center spotted number, and the ability to earn a 5-in-a-line by sinking balls in each of the numbers in the bottom-right quadrant (the star numbers). Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn...

Fun-Spot is another of the "Ohio Dime Games" as Jeffrey Lawton, author of Bally Bingo Pinball Machines, calls them. Instead of earning replays on these machines, you earn a lighted score advance for each 3, 4, or 5 in a row. This six card game has another fantastic carnival or state fair-themed art package, and brings in a regular six card bingo feature - Super Lines! Backglass: http://ipdb.org/sh...

Laguna Beach is next in our chronological tour of Bally's bingos! It is a Magic Screen game with the OK feature, super sections, an extended time tree, blue section scores as green 5, and orange section scores as green. Beautiful artwork and very fun gameplay make this a great bingo. Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/laguna_beach/resources/bg-laguna_beach-2.jpg Cabinet: http://bingo....

Ava and I spent the evening together - I taught her some of the basic schematic symbols, along with some very basic troubleshooting, like checking continuity. We recap the info from tonight. Her impressions and reactions to this new information - we're in the home stretch of the Turf King. T-Shirts - These will be available to pre-order only until 1/18/16. For listeners in the US - shipping $4.50:...

Fun Way is the first of a few games that Jeffrey Lawton calls the "Ohio Dime Games". Please see the book Bally Bingo Pinball Machines for more information. Fun Way is a six card bingo - instead of earning replays, you earn a 'score' - the score can, in fact, be used exactly like a replay. Wonder if you could gamble with that? ;-) Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/fun_way/resources/bg...

Sea Island was Bally's second Magic Screen game - they added another section of the screen, and according to Phil's site, bingo.cdyn.com, they made it easier to achieve the feature. A full extended time tree (after 5th) gives the player the ability to score in each color. The extra section completely changes the gameplay with the small, difficult blue section. Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/mach...

Carnival Queen ushers in the era of the Magic Screen! Magic Screen games are the most popular among many bingo players. Instead of a flat bingo card, there is instead a movable grid that makes up each column of the bingo card. As you move the screen, each column will shift and reveal colored sections. If you land three in the section (not necessarily adjacent!) you will win the indicated replays o...

Beach Time expands on the concepts used in Sun Valley and Cypress Gardens! Every number on the bingo card can be moved to another postion, the ballyhole awards you all the moving numbers features on the next game, and the game has stop and shop before 3rd, 4th or 5th ball! Extra balls, extended time tree for moving numbers, corners scoring and a beautiful art package really make this quite a winne...

Cypress Gardens is a very highly regarded Magic Squares bingo. Centrally located Magic Squares with a single Magic Line at the bottom, triple deck scoring, extra balls, a carry-over Ballyhole feature, and Stop and Shop (increasing your bet during gameplay)! Beautiful artwork: Backglass: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/cypress_gardens/dade.html Cabinet: http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/cyp...

Ava has been learning how to fix EM machines. She has been a very good student and has learned how to clean steppers, test bulbs, solder, and more! Hear Ava's thoughts about the work and Turf King's artwork. T-Shirts?!? Yes, it's true. They are still available. These will be available to pre-order only until 1/18/16. For listeners in the US - shipping $4.50: Sizes XS $18.00 USD S $18.00 USD M $18....