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Dogies / IPD No. 696 / January, 1968 / 4 Players

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Manufacturer:

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

Project Date:

August 08, 1967

Date Of Manufacture:

January, 1968

Model Number:

814

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Production:

3,670 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

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

Theme:

American West

Specialty:

Zipper Flippers

Notable Features:

Zipper flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Mushroom bumpers (5), Slingshots (2), Regular size and mini-rollover buttons (9). Sneaky Joe Free Ball return lane with scoring gate, Left drop lane with detour gate, Right outlane ball return gate. Backglass has Cactus Juice Score allowing for each player a separate tally of points towards earning replays. 3 or 5 ball play.

The Dogies Canyon in upper left playfield has three normally-closed gates that, when all are closed, route the ball across three rollover buttons to exit the Canyon near the bottom pop bumper which also lights the top two pop bumpers. Only one of these three normally-closed gates can be open at a time, as controlled by their corresponding mushroom bumpers located in mid-playfield. When open, these gates will detour the ball to remain inside the Canyon. When this happens, a long and inconspicuous fourth detour gate quickly and temporarily opens to block the entrance and route the ball to an otherwise inaccessible left drop lane (the Devil's Canyon). In effect, hitting any of the lower three mushroom bumpers during play turns the Dogies Canyon into a large drop lane entrance so, if that happens, it is essential to first hit either of the two mushroom bumpers at top of playfield before entering the Canyon in order to activate a fifth detour gate in the drop lane to rescue the ball from draining.

Maximum displayed point score is 9,999 points per player.

Replay wheel maximum: 25

Tilt penalty: ball in play plus any shoot again privilege.

Sound: 1 bell, knocker

Actual measured weight: 270 lbs (includes legs).

Design by:

Ted Zale

Art by:

Jerry Kelley

Notes:

The manufacturer produced the backglasses in both crystal glass and Plexiglas.

A special version was produced for Germany with the same project number and project release date. The schematic part number for the US version is W-1042-47a and the German version is W-1042-48a.

The early production machines had a green 'Dogies' logo on the backglass instead of the final yellow one. This can be seen in the Flyer.

Christian Jacobs, a collector in Germany, told us of a telephone conversation in which artist Jerry Kelley told him that the "Sneaky Joe" name on the playfield was a reference to Joe Dillon (Bally Marketing at the time) put there by Kelley who was unhappy with Dillon about the change of primary color on Bally's 1967 'The Wiggler' from green to purple.

We seek your images of examples of this game showing the factory Add-a-Ball conversion kit installed.

Photos in:

The Pinball Compendium 1930s - 1960s External Link

, page 190
Pinball An Illustrated History External Link

, page 15
Pinball Machines, page 119
Pinball Memories External Link

, pages 68-71
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) External Link

, page 119

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/696 (External site)

Documentation:

2 MB

PDF

Game Manual

[Bally Manufacturing Corp.]

2 MB

PDF

German Schematic Diagram (Paginated)

[Bally Manufacturing Corp.]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Machine 353x488 [Daina Petit]	Flyer, Front 901x1170	Flyer, Back 938x1206	Backglass 598x478 [Doug H.]	Playfield 479x609 [Doug H.]
Cabinet - Front View 233x452 [Doug H.]	Cabinet - Full View 841x1133 [Riffhard]	Backglass 725x629 [Alan Tate]	German Backglass 1024x805	German Playfield 1024x1628
German Playfield 1024x1290	Cabinet - Left 860x377 [Christian Jacobs]	Cabinet - Right 820x324 [Christian Jacobs]	Backbox - Right 332x703 [Christian Jacobs]	Backbox - Left 357x760 [Christian Jacobs]
German Backglass 766x554 [Christian Jacobs]	Backglass 1024x768 [Christian Jacobs]	Modified for 5-digit Scoring 503x461 [Tijs De Wandel]	German Cabinet - Front 857x643 [Christian Jacobs]	German Playfield - Detail* 443x855 [Christian Jacobs]
Inside Backbox 905x896 [Christian Jacobs]	Under Playfield 643x849 [Christian Jacobs]	Inside Cabinet 823x969 [Christian Jacobs]	German Playfield - Special Colored Flippers 857x643 [Christian Jacobs]	German Instruction Card 857x643 [Christian Jacobs]
German Pricing Card 857x643 [Christian Jacobs]	German Backglass - Reverse 1024x768 [Christian Jacobs]	German Press Release, Page 1* 828x1165 [Christian Jacobs]	German Press Release, Page 2* 825x1165 [Christian Jacobs]	German Ad* 824x1168 [Christian Jacobs]
German Ad* 848x1165 [Christian Jacobs]	German Backglass - Detail 400x300 [Bruno Durand]	Backglass 1036x900 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Backglass 894x872 [Jay Stafford]	Playfield 900x1200 [Jay Stafford]
Playfield - Downfield View 900x1200 [Jay Stafford]	Cabinet - Full View 600x800 [Rob Rock Mock]	Inside Cabinet - Replay Mode* 600x800 [Rob Rock Mock]	Replay Mode Shorting Plug Installed* 800x600 [Rob Rock Mock]

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