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Average Fun Rating: | 7.9/10 (93 ratings/78 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project Date: | December 05, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | June, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 1167-E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MPU: | Bally MPU AS-2518-35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 9,120 units (confirmed) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Fantasy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specialty: | Widebody | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), 4-in-line drop targets (1), 3-bank drop targets (1), Kick-out holes (3), Standup targets (2), Star rollovers (4), Spinning target (1), Upper right chicane lane awards lit features. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | Greg Kmiec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | Paul Faris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | 'Paragon' is the first widebody production game from this manufacturer. We had heard anecdotally that when the Golden Cliffs feature is at maximum and then a ball lands in its saucer, the tune that is played is the interlude from The Ohio Players' song "The Worm" that was on the charts when the game was being designed. Designer Greg Kmiec later told us: It has come to my attention that the song was indeed "The Worm." Every ball in the saucer added one note to the tune. Paragon was Bally's first wide-body. You might be able to recognize features from different games in the layout: the Capt. Fantastic bottom flippers, the Old Chicago bottom thumper bumper on the left, the Knockout Wiggler channel on the right (the across-the-playfield feed into the Knockout Wiggler lane was an homage to Ted Zale), the Harlem Globetrotters in-line drop targets on the left side feeding a reverse Capt. Fantastic across -the-playfield drop target shot and the top two saucers similar to Wizard. An earlier game that builds a song tune note by note is Bally's 1978 'Playboy'.The standard version of this playfield has four flippers as shown on the flyer. An unknown quantity of the games shipped to Europe had only three flippers. In this version, a ball guide and a single post replaced the upper right flipper, and the flipper assembly was not installed. In addition, a mini-post was added at the opening beneath the pop bumper in the Beast’s Lair to make it more difficult for the ball to leave the playfield that way. We asked Greg Kmiec to comment on why the 3-flipper version was created. He replies: I wouldn't have originally designed Paragon with that lower right section that way because it looks like the pinball could get stuck between those two wire forms. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photos in: |
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), page 146 Pinball Memories, pages 127-130 The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 144 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R Pinball (Ciuffo), pages 126-127 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/paragon (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ROMs: | 9 KB | ZIP | ROMs | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documentation: | 4 MB | English Manual (black & white, no schematics) | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 MB | English Manual (color, with paginated schematics) | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 MB | Schematic Diagrams (paginated) | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Files: | 10 KB | Greg Kmiec Discusses Treasure Chamber Design | [Greg Kmiec] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 MB | Original Factory BOM (incomplete, evidentiary photos only, dated 5-8-79) | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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