Internet Pinball Machine Database: Bally 'Six Shooter'

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Six Shooter / IPD No. 2166 / October, 1966 / 6 Players

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Manufacturer:

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

Project Date:

September 16, 1966

Date Of Manufacture:

October, 1966

Model Number:

789

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Production:

100 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

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

Theme:

American West

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Mushroom bumpers (6), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning bumper (1).

Design by:

Ted Zale

Notes:

Per Billboard, Nov-5-1966 page 75, this game was launched at the Chicago MOA show held Oct 28-30, 1966.

The first of two games pictured here has hand-drawn labels and notations but no serial number, indicative of an Engineering Prototype. A small metal Property Tag ("Prop No. 3238") is riveted to its cabinet below the right flipper button where the serial number normally would be stamped in production games. The cabinet art matches a later game, Bally's 1971 'Firecracker', but with different colors. Still, the cabinet is original to the prototype because hand-labeled papers are stapled to the inside of it. Note the area around the flippers is unpainted and does not have the black horizontal bars as shown in the second game.

The 3-inch flippers shown on this prototype are not the original size of flipper used for this game. Also, the center playfield has a rollunder spinner. This spinner was likely a user modification, as Bally did not put them on their games until 1974.

The second game shown here does not have a spinner and does have the expected smaller flippers. It is assumed to be a 'production' game but, interestingly, a serial number could not be found anywhere on it, or in it.

Reportedly, 'Six Shooter' is the first Bally game having a motorized trip relay bank, a device Bally didn't use again until Bally's 1968 'RockMakers'.

Photos in:

Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Arcade Treasures External Link

, page 74

Images:
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Engineering Prototype Backglass 708x728 [Kevin Ketchum]	Engineering Prototype Playfield* 916x768 [Kevin Ketchum]	Engineering Prototype Cabinet - Left 646x666 [Kevin Ketchum]	Playfield* 768x1024 [Henk P. de Jager]	Upper Playfield* 1024x768 [Henk P. de Jager]
Lower Playfield* 1024x768 [Henk P. de Jager]	Upper Right Playfield* 768x1024 [Henk P. de Jager]	Upper Middle Playfield* 768x1024 [Henk P. de Jager]	Lower Left Playfield* 768x1024 [Henk P. de Jager]

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