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Kick Off / IPD No. 1365 / June, 1977 / 4 Players

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Manufacturer:

Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally]

Project Date:

May 19, 1975

Date Of Manufacture:

June, 1977

Model Number:

1055

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Production:

1,655 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Sports - Soccer

Notable Features:

Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (3), 7-bank drop targets (1), Standup targets (2), Spinning target (1), Star rollover (1). End-of-ball bonus. Bounce-back outlanes allow the player to nudge a draining ball back into play.

Design by:

Jim Patla

Art by:

Paul Faris

Notes:

Last EM pinball machine by this manufacturer.

The 2-player version of this game is Bally's 1976 'Quarterback', with a different sports theme.

In Cash Box, Aug-6-1977 page 64, Bally announced that their factory had "commenced volume production" of this game.

We previously had credited Dick White as artist for this game. Paul Faris provided us this information:

When Bally hired me, they had me work on the game Quarterback as my first assignment. I actually had to make a 4-player game with a soccer theme to be sold in Europe (because Europeans favored 4-player games). That one was called 'Kick Off'. I know they prototyped it but I don't know if they ever produced it. I think Dick White did the first version of the Quarterback glass and management asked me to redo it along with the soccer version. I don't think I ever saw a production version of either game before I went on to Night Rider and then Evel Knievel. That is as much as I know.

Photos in:

Cash Box, Aug-6-1977, page 64
Cash Box, Oct-1-1977, page 66
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/1365 (External site)

Documentation:

1 MB

PDF

English Manual

[Bally Mfg Corp.]

641 KB

PDF

Schematic Diagram (paginated)

[Bally Mfg Corp.]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Backglass 473x416	Playfield 456x503 [Russ Jensen]	Flyer, Front 826x1088	Flyer, Back* 900x749	Backglass 400x389 [Bruno Durand]
Cabinet - Right View 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]	Playfield 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]	Backglass - Detail 400x300 [Bruno Durand]	Upper Playfield 640x480	Lower Playfield 640x480
Cabinet - Left 434x480	Inside Cabinet 480x640	Cabinet - Left View 726x1107 [Pascal Villedieu]	Backglass - Detail 400x300 [Bruno Durand]	Backglass - Illuminated 931x769 [Ronald Blom]
Playfield - Illuminated 1024x1363 [Ronald Blom]	Backglass 1200x1085 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Playfield 1200x1357 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Upper Playfield 1200x950 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Lower Playfield 1200x873 [Jean-Pierre Renault]
Instruction Card 1200x726 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Score Card 1200x737 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Backbox - Right 747x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Right 1200x419 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Front 1200x865 [Jean-Pierre Renault]
Cabinet - Front View 1200x2332 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Full View 1200x1462 [Jean-Pierre Renault]

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