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Average Fun Rating: | 7.5/10 (38 ratings/28 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project Date: | April 30, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | September, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 1210 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MPU: | Bally MPU AS-2518-35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 4,150 units (confirmed) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Sports - Skateboard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), 5-bank drop targets (1), 3-bank drop targets (2), Kick-out hole (1), Spinning target (1), Left crossover return lane. Ball shooter lane directs ball across the middle of the playfield to reach the top. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | Claude Fernandez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | Greg Freres, Kevin O'Connor, Margaret Hudson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | First solid-state game from this manufacturer produced with 7-digit scoring. Skateball reportedly had a faulty design that allowed players to score excessive points, lowering operator profits due to many free games being awarded. Players could easily hold the ball on the right flipper and make it roll in and out of the right inlane by briefly releasing the flipper button. This caused the bonus to raise to the maximum award which would award a special upon reaching 60k. Operators reportedly tried a number of different solutions to solve the problem. This game originally was to be Model 1150-E Bally's 1978 'Skateball' but did not get produced at that time. Artist Greg Freres did the art for the 1978 backglass. The original playfield for that game was scrapped, but Bally kept the backglass art on the shelf until an opportunity came up to resurrect the theme for a new playfield. Since Greg was busy on another project by this time, only his backglass art was used on this 1980 production run while Kevin O'Connor did the playfield artwork and Margaret Hudson did the plastics artwork. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photos in: |
The Complete Pinball Book, page 159 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z Pinball Art, page 28 Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), pages 31 and 71 The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 173 Pinball (Ciuffo), page 173 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2170 (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ROMs: | 11 KB | ZIP | ROMs | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documentation: | 3 MB | English Manual (gray cover, no schematics, pages 11-12 are different font and may be preliminary) | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 MB | Schematic Diagrams Only (quantity of ten) | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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