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Silverball Mania / IPD No. 2156 / February, 1980 / 4 Players

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Average Fun Rating:

7.4/10 (42 ratings/34 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]

Manufacturer:

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

Project Date:

June 29, 1978

Date Of Manufacture:

February, 1980

Model Number:

1157-E

Common Abbreviations:

SBM, SB

MPU:

Bally MPU AS-2518-35

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

10,350 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

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

Theme:

Sports - Pinball - Fantasy

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Passive bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (11), Star rollovers (2), Horseshoe lane (1), Kicker (1). Backglass carry-over feature gives award for completing S-I-L-V-E-R-B-A-L-L (operator option). Going through the horseshoe lane or top center rollover when lit changes an outlane located below the flippers into a kicker that propels an otherwise drained ball upward through the flippers back onto the playfield. Balls that exit via the left or right outlanes can be nudged by the player onto unique wireforms that will route the ball to this center outlane/kicker.

Maximum displayed point score is 999,990 points per player.

Actual measured weight: 232 lbs (includes legs).

Design by:

Jim Patla

Art by:

Kevin O'Connor

Notes:

One of the playfield plastics shows artist Kevin O'Connor's Jeep Cherokee drawn in chrome. According to Kevin at the 2004 Texas Pinball Festival, some of the reflections in the silver balls on the sides are of Kevin himself, who wore a beard for many years.

The game came to O'Connor as a blank whitewood and he designed the art from an idea he got from a comic by a comic who drew everything in chrome, tying in well with the pinball.

Photos in:

Silver Knight pp. April/May 1995
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) External Link

, page 49
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981 External Link

, page 172
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Pinball (Zsolnay), page 61
Pinball (Ciuffo)

, page 173

Easter Eggs:

Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site)

ROMs:

10 KB

ZIP

ROMs

[Bally Mfg. Corp.]

Documentation:

3 MB

PDF

English Manual (includes schematics as A3 full pages)

[Bally Mfg. Corp.]

4 MB

PDF

English Manual (includes schematics as A4 half pages)

[Bally Mfg. Corp.]

2 MB

PDF

German Manual (no schematics)

[Bally Mfg. Corp.]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Flyer, Front 588x778	Flyer, Page 2 585x777	Flyer, Page 3 612x786	Flyer, Back 612x786	Front View 692x1065 [Jesse Kujawa]
Under Playfield 1024x1365 [Jesse Kujawa]	Illuminated Upper Playfield 1024x768 [Jesse Kujawa]	Illuminated Backglass 805x717 [Jesse Kujawa]	Illuminated Playfield 1024x1365 [Jesse Kujawa]	Lower Playfield 1024x768 [Jesse Kujawa]
Front 907x658 [Jesse Kujawa]	Backglass 686x526 [Eric Avedesian]	Backglass - Reverse 686x505 [Eric Avedesian]	Front View 794x1156 [Marco Albus]	Illuminated Playfield 784x1128 [Marco Albus]
Illuminated Playfield 1024x716 [Marco Albus]	Stripped Playfield 794x1156 [Marco Albus]	Illuminated Backglass 800x725 [Phil Hauser]	Illuminated Backglass - Detail 600x800 [Phil Hauser]	Illuminated Backglass - Detail 800x600 [Phil Hauser]
Illuminated Backglass - Detail 800x600 [Phil Hauser]	Illuminated Playfield 768x1024 [Gavin Miller]	Illuminated Playfield 1024x768 [Gavin Miller]	Illuminated Upper Playfield 1024x768 [Gavin Miller]	Illuminated Upper Playfield 1024x768 [Gavin Miller]
Cabinet - Left 900x768 [Gavin Miller]	Cabinet - Right 850x768 [Gavin Miller]	Backbox - Left 644x1024 [Gavin Miller]	Backbox - Right 576x1024 [Gavin Miller]	Cabinet - Front 904x768 [Gavin Miller]
Promotional Poster* 753x519	Backglass 1024x1536 [Don Lee]	Backglass - Detail - Artist Visage 1200x1845 [Jan Izaks]

Source:

Photo

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