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Average Fun Rating: | 7.8/10 (114 ratings/92 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project Date: | November 26, 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | November, 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 1196 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MPU: | Bally MPU AS-2518-35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 11,000 units (confirmed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Fantasy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Kick-out holes (2), 4-bank drop targets (1), Mini-rollover buttons (4), Standup targets (2), Spinning target (1), 2-ball multiball. Right ramp sends ball through elevated tube to left-side lane. Infinity lights behind backglass. Has speech (a sexy, female voice). Maximum displayed point score is 9,999,990 points per player. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | Greg Kmiec | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | Paul Faris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music by: | Suzanne Ciani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound by: | Rehman Merchant, Chris Granner, Suzanne Ciani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Software by: | Rehman Merchant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | Unlike other Bally electronic pinball games, their documentation for this game shows the model number only as 1196, not 1196-E. This is the first talking Bally game, using the AS-2518-56 sound board and the AS-2518-57 "Vocalizer" board instead of the "Squawk and Talk" system. Electronic music composer Suzanne Ciani composed the music and performed all of the voices for Xenon. You can learn more about Ciani's involvement in Xenon at her former official website, now archived, which has a lot of information about this game. Pinball art collector Harold Balde reports this information to accompany his image of an experimental playfield overlay: Bally experimented with printing the artwork on mylar then attaching it to the playfield as a cost savings measure. The artwork is not the same as the production Xenon - Paul Faris went back and airbrushed the art to make it look better for the 4-color process. At least one or two games were made with this overlay. Artist Paul Faris told us that he recalls there was a problem of applying those mylar overlays accurately after the boards had been routed and the inserts glued in. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arcade Treasures, page 113 Pinball (Chartwell) The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 175 The Complete Pinball Book, pages 105 and 248 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z Pinball Snapshots, pages 6, 251-256 Pinball Perspectives, page 236 Pinball The Lure of the Silverball, page 82 Pinball (Ciuffo), pages 148-149 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2821 (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Additional Media: | Suzanne Ciani Creates The Soundtrack For A Pinball Machine (at YouTube) [07:35] (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ROMs: | 52 KB | ZIP | ROMs | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documentation: | 2 MB | English Manual | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 MB | Manual And Schematics | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multimedia Files: | 344 KB | MPG | Xenon Match Movie | [Craig Hassell] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
344 KB | MPG | Xenon Movie | [Craig Hassell] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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