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Average Fun Rating: | 7.3/10 (38 ratings/25 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||
Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||
Project Date: | August 31, 1977 | |||||
Date Of Manufacture: | October, 1978 | |||||
Model Number: | 1138-E | |||||
Common Abbreviations: | SMDM | |||||
MPU: | Bally MPU AS-2518-35 | |||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | |||||
Production: | 10,320 units (confirmed) | |||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||
Theme: | Licensed Theme - Fictional Characters - Television Show | |||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3),Slingshots (2), Standup targets (6), Spinning targets (2), Star rollovers (2), 5-bank drop targets (1), Kick-out hole (1), Right outlane ball return gate, Up-post between flippers. Six players can play at the same time. | |||||
Design by: | Greg Kmiec | |||||
Art by: | Dave Christensen | |||||
Notes: | We had heard the original name of this game was 'City Slicker' and asked designer Greg Kmiec about it. He replied: I did use the name "City Slicker" on the 1978 whitewood. Back then, the desi We note that this production run of over 10,000 games would have used up over 20,000 6-digit score displays for players 5 and 6. Bally's first production game with 7-digit displays was Bally's 1980 'Skateball', roughly dated as having occurred seventeen pinball games after Six Million Dollar Man. This production run used aluminum bayonet sockets and #44 bulbs which have a brass bayonet base. However, pictured in this listing is a game with serial number ESM1153 with factory-installed wedge sockets and #444 wedge bulbs. Because we know that Bally's first game to use wedge sockets (and #555 bulbs) in production was Bally's 1981 'Eight Ball Deluxe', we asked Allan Reizman, Engineering Lab Supervisor at Bally from 1977 to 1983, about this. He identified ESM1153 as one the test games in the production run intended to trial the wedge-style lamps. He explains: As everyone knows the #44 bulb was the standard at the time, however the brass content of the base was getting expensive. We're talking just pennies but when you purchase millions of them a year it adds up. We have seen a photograph (not shown here) of a playfield with a dark green background color instead of the familiar blue color as seen in the manufacturer's flyer. If it is Early Production, then we expect its serial number to precede ESM1097 which belongs to the blue playfield Early Production game pictured here. We are seeking your high-resolution photographs of the dark green pla | |||||
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Pinball Art, page 20 Arcade Treasures, page 95 Pinball The Lure of the Silverball, page 14 Mad Dog and His Art, pages 85-90 The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 126 Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), pages 99-100 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z | |||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2165 (External site) | |||||
ROMs: | 8 KB | ZIP | ROM | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | ||
Documentation: | 4 MB | English Manual | [Bally Mfg. Corp.] | |||
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