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- By moses
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- A one-ball was a type of pinball game common in the 1930s and 1940s that gave players only a single ball per coin to win credits, payouts, or replays, often styled around horse or dog racing themes. ## Origins The type descends from pinball's first split. *Rocket* (1933, [[manufacturer:bally]]) was the first automatic payout machine,[1] and pin game design promptly divided into gambling "payouts" and "novelty" amusement games, the payout games that offered a single ball per game becoming known in the trade as "one-balls".[2] The
horse-race dressing arrived in the mid-1930s and lasted the life of the format.[21] Thegames were often named for famous racehorses, racetracks and other racing terms — *[[title:blue-grass]]* and *[[title:turf-king]]* among them — and their massive cabinets typically reached the floor rather than standing on legs.[3] ## Built to draw coins Everything in the design worked to draw another coin. A later one-ball lit its selections at random with each coin inserted — the next coin might light one more number or all of them[4] — and on the machines the trade called "one-ball multiples" the payoff was multiplied by up to four as the coins went in.[5] With the pair *[[title:lexington]]* and *[[title:citation]]* (1948), Bally introduced "Guaranteed Advancing Odds": an additional coin could raise the odds or leave them unchanged but never lower them, and players responded by inserting more.[6] Machines shipped as near-identical twins — Bally marked the war's end with *[[title:victory-derby]]*, which paid out directly in coins, and *[[title:victory-special]]*, which registered its awards as replays[7][8] — and "Special" in a name ordinarily signified the free-play model.[9] The replay versions were gambling machines all the same: the location owner paid winners cash for their accumulated free games and cleared them with a concealed knock-off button.[10] ## The trade The Second World War halted pinball production, the factories turning to war work,[11] and the payout field never refilled. Bally returned to it nearly alone[12] — the Victory pair were its first new games after the war[7] — while [[manufacturer:gottlieb]] made its last payout game, *[[title:new-daily-races]]*, in 1947.[13][14] [[manufacturer:keeney]] built a few more, and late in the era [[manufacturer:universal-industries-inc-chicago-a-subsidiary-of-united-manufacturing-co]], a firm set up under [[manufacturer:united]] to build console slots and one-balls, made some notably sophisticated horse-race machines.[15] ## Outlawed and replaced The end came by name. Anti-gambling ordinances took to naming "one-ball games" as an outlawed type,[16] and Bally watched a market it practically owned dry up under legislation aimed at its product.[17] Its hedge was the "Skill Lane", a factory option that nominally turned a one-ball into a five-ball game for jurisdictions that had banned the type.[18][19] The federal Johnson Act of 1950 then banned interstate shipment of gambling devices except into states where they were legal,[20] and the one-ball was virtually outlawed by 1951.[21] The industry's replacement arrived that same year: a pin game playing five balls and scoring by lighting numbers in a pattern, sold by Bally first as *[[title:bright-lights]]* — the beginning of the [[game-format:bingo-pinball]] line, created expressly to take the one-ball's place.[22][23][24] Amusement [[game-format:pinball]] went the other way: the [[gameplay-feature:flippers]] introduced at the end of 1947[25] gave it a claim of skill to argue in court — a defense the one-ball never had.[26] - 1.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #1987
'Rocket' was the first automatic payout machine.
2.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/enterpayouts.htmlAt that point pingame design began to split in two directions, "payouts", and "novelty" games. [...] Many of the payout games only offered the player one ball per game and became known as "one- balls".
3.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmldiffered mainly in their massive cabinets. Instead of individual legs, many one- balls had the front and back of the cabinet touching the floor. [...] The names of most of these games were those of famous racehorses, racetracks, or other "racy" terms.
4.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlInstead of each coin lighting one additional selection, later one-balls offered a random selection or selections with each additional coin - from one to possibly all selections could be lit with each coin inserted.
5.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlthe payoff for achieving a "win" would be multiplied by the numbers of coins inserted (up to 4). [...] These machines came to be know as "One-ball Multiples" within the industry.
6.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlThen in 1949, with the introduction of the one-ball "pair" LEXINGTON/CITATION, Bally introduced what was known as "Guaranteed Advancing Odds." This meant that insertion of additional coins would either increase the odds or leave them unchanged; in no case would they ever decrease. [...] Thus, players tended to insert more additional coins making for better profits for the operator.
7.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlWhen the war ended Bally celebrated the event by coming out with their first new pingames, a pair of one-balls called VICTORY SPECIAL and VICTORY DERBY. These two games were virtually identical except that the former indicated "awards" as replays, with the latter paying off directly in coins.
8.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballeach one ball game made in the 1940s was produced in two models: a "replay" version, which contained a three-digit replay counter (which could be zeroed out at whim), and a "payout" version, which paid the player in nickels, directly upon winning.
9.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlThese were often released in pairs with similar names, such a s JOCKEY CLUB and JOCKEY SPECIAL, with the term "special" in the name normally used to signify the "free play" version.
10.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmleven the "free play" versions were used mostly for gambling, with the location owner paying off for "free games" and using the "knock- off button"
11.Pacific Pinball Museum — https://www.pacificpinball.org/pinball-gamblingthe US entry into WWII would halt pinball production almost completely as the nation redirected resources toward the war effort
12.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlAbout the only company which began producing "payout" pinballs after the war was Bally.
13.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlGottlieb, which had produced many "payouts" before the war, made their last payout machine in 1947, a game called DAILY RACES
14.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #629Only post WW-II payout game made by Gottlieb.
15.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlIn the late Forties there were also a few "one-balls" made by manufacturers other than Bally, Keeney made a few, and another outfit, Universal Industries (which was actually a subsidiary of Lyn Durant's United Manufacturing set up to manufacture console slots and "one-balls") also made some rather sophisticated one-ball horserace machines.
16.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlMany ordinances specifically mentioned "one-ball games" as a type which were outlawed
17.Bingo Pinballs — http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/bright_lights/Bally saw the market for one-ball machines - which they practically owned - drying up due to legislation that specifically identified one-balls as gambling devices
18.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlthe main idea of this was that a "one-ball game" (specifically outlawed in many areas) now became a "five ball game"
19.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #2672Skill Lane option for 5-ball jurisdictions.
20.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlThat law banned inter-state shipment of "gambling devices" (including repair parts, manuals, etc.) except to states in which the device was legal.
21.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.htmlA more complicated motif of payout pin, which developed in the mid thirties and lasted until they were virtually outlawed in 1951, was the so-called "One-Ball Horserace" Pinball.
22.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlSo, in 1951, a new type of pingame came into being to replace the "one-balls". [...] used 5 balls ("one-ball" was definitely out) and scored replays by lighting numbers in a given pattern
23.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballBingo pinball machines were made as a reaction to the passing of the Johnson Act in 1950.
24.Bingo Pinballs — http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/bright_lights/Bally's first in-line bingo machine
25.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlthe introduction of the "flipper" to pinball by D. Gottlieb and Company in December of 1947
26.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlThe advent of the flipper had made "amusement pinballs" less likely to be outlawed as gambling devices due to their increased "skill factor" [...] But the "one-balls" were an entirely different story.
- By moses
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- A one-ball
iswas ahorse-racetypebetting machine in the bodyofapinball game.Thecommonplayer gets a single ball per game, shot onto a playfield divided into sections of numbered holes — Purse, Show, Place and Winin theclassic1930slayout,andeach1940sholding seven or eight numbersthatstandgaveforplayerstheonlyhorses inarace.[27]singleAtballtheperstartcoinoftoawingamecredits,thepayouts,backglass lights oneormore winning numbersreplays,alongoftenwithstyledthearoundoddshorseeachorsectiondogpays;racingthe player wins by dropping the ball into a hole whose number is lit, and Win pays the mostthemes.[28] These were multiple-coin machines: a player could keep feeding in coins before the shot, playing for winnings rather than a score.[29]## Origins The type descends from pinball's first split. *Rocket* (1933, [[manufacturer:bally]]) was the first automatic payout machine,[1] and pin game design promptly divided into gambling "payouts" and "novelty" amusement games, the payout games that offered a single ball per game becoming known in the trade as "one-balls".[2] The horse-race dressing arrived in the mid-1930s and lasted the life of the format.[3] The games were named for famous racehorses, racetracks and other racing terms — *[[title:blue-grass]]* and *[[title:turf-king]]* among them — and their massive cabinets typically reached the floor rather than standing on legs.[4] ## Built to draw coins Everything in the design worked to draw another coin. A later one-ball lit its selections at random with each coin inserted — the next coin might light one more number or all of them[5] — and on the machines the trade called "one-ball multiples" the payoff was multiplied by up to four as the coins went in.[6] With the pair *[[title:lexington]]* and *[[title:citation]]* (1948), Bally introduced "Guaranteed Advancing Odds": an additional coin could raise the odds or leave them unchanged but never lower them, and players responded by inserting more.[7] Machines shipped as near-identical twins — Bally marked the war's end with *[[title:victory-derby]]*, which paid out directly in coins, and *[[title:victory-special]]*, which registered its awards as replays[8][9] — and "Special" in a name ordinarily signified the free-play model.[10] The replay versions were gambling machines all the same: the location owner paid winners cash for their accumulated free games and cleared them with a concealed knock-off button.[11] ## The trade The Second World War halted pinball production, the factories turning to war work,[12] and the payout field never refilled. Bally returned to it nearly alone[13] — the Victory pair were its first new games after the war[8] — while [[manufacturer:gottlieb]] made its last payout game, *[[title:new-daily-races]]*, in 1947.[14][15] [[manufacturer:keeney]] built a few more, and late in the era [[manufacturer:universal-industries-inc-chicago-a-subsidiary-of-united-manufacturing-co]], a firm set up under [[manufacturer:united]] to build console slots and one-balls, made some notably sophisticated horse-race machines.[16] ## Outlawed and replaced The end came by name. Anti-gambling ordinances took to naming "one-ball games" as an outlawed type,[17] and Bally watched a market it practically owned dry up under legislation aimed at its product.[18] Its hedge was the "Skill Lane", a factory option that nominally turned a one-ball into a five-ball game for jurisdictions that had banned the type.[19][20] The federal Johnson Act of 1950 then banned interstate shipment of gambling devices except into states where they were legal,[21] and the one-ball was virtually outlawed by 1951.[3] The industry's replacement arrived that same year: a pin game playing five balls and scoring by lighting numbers in a pattern, sold by Bally first as *[[title:bright-lights]]* — the beginning of the [[game-format:bingo-pinball]] line, created expressly to take the one-ball's place.[22][23][24] Amusement [[game-format:pinball]] went the other way: the [[gameplay-feature:flippers]] introduced at the end of 1947[25] gave it a claim of skill to argue in court — a defense the one-ball never had.[26] - 1.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #1987
'Rocket' was the first automatic payout machine.
2.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/enterpayouts.htmlAt that point pingame design began to split in two directions, "payouts", and "novelty" games. [...] Many of the payout games only offered the player one ball per game and became known as "one- balls".
3.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.htmlA more complicated motif of payout pin, which developed in the mid thirties and lasted until they were virtually outlawed in 1951, was the so-called "One-Ball Horserace" Pinball.
4.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmldiffered mainly in their massive cabinets. Instead of individual legs, many one- balls had the front and back of the cabinet touching the floor. [...] The names of most of these games were those of famous racehorses, racetracks, or other "racy" terms.
5.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlInstead of each coin lighting one additional selection, later one-balls offered a random selection or selections with each additional coin - from one to possibly all selections could be lit with each coin inserted.
6.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlthe payoff for achieving a "win" would be multiplied by the numbers of coins inserted (up to 4). [...] These machines came to be know as "One-ball Multiples" within the industry.
7.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlThen in 1949, with the introduction of the one-ball "pair" LEXINGTON/CITATION, Bally introduced what was known as "Guaranteed Advancing Odds." This meant that insertion of additional coins would either increase the odds or leave them unchanged; in no case would they ever decrease. [...] Thus, players tended to insert more additional coins making for better profits for the operator.
8.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlWhen the war ended Bally celebrated the event by coming out with their first new pingames, a pair of one-balls called VICTORY SPECIAL and VICTORY DERBY. These two games were virtually identical except that the former indicated "awards" as replays, with the latter paying off directly in coins.
9.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballeach one ball game made in the 1940s was produced in two models: a "replay" version, which contained a three-digit replay counter (which could be zeroed out at whim), and a "payout" version, which paid the player in nickels, directly upon winning.
10.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlThese were often released in pairs with similar names, such a s JOCKEY CLUB and JOCKEY SPECIAL, with the term "special" in the name normally used to signify the "free play" version.
11.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmleven the "free play" versions were used mostly for gambling, with the location owner paying off for "free games" and using the "knock- off button"
12.Pacific Pinball Museum — https://www.pacificpinball.org/pinball-gamblingthe US entry into WWII would halt pinball production almost completely as the nation redirected resources toward the war effort
13.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlAbout the only company which began producing "payout" pinballs after the war was Bally.
14.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlGottlieb, which had produced many "payouts" before the war, made their last payout machine in 1947, a game called DAILY RACES
15.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #629Only post WW-II payout game made by Gottlieb.
16.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlIn the late Forties there were also a few "one-balls" made by manufacturers other than Bally, Keeney made a few, and another outfit, Universal Industries (which was actually a subsidiary of Lyn Durant's United Manufacturing set up to manufacture console slots and "one-balls") also made some rather sophisticated one-ball horserace machines.
17.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlMany ordinances specifically mentioned "one-ball games" as a type which were outlawed
18.Bingo Pinballs — http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/bright_lights/Bally saw the market for one-ball machines - which they practically owned - drying up due to legislation that specifically identified one-balls as gambling devices
19.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlthe main idea of this was that a "one-ball game" (specifically outlawed in many areas) now became a "five ball game"
20.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #2672Skill Lane option for 5-ball jurisdictions.
21.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlThat law banned inter-state shipment of "gambling devices" (including repair parts, manuals, etc.) except to states in which the device was legal.
22.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlSo, in 1951, a new type of pingame came into being to replace the "one-balls". [...] used 5 balls ("one-ball" was definitely out) and scored replays by lighting numbers in a given pattern
23.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballBingo pinball machines were made as a reaction to the passing of the Johnson Act in 1950.
24.Bingo Pinballs — http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/bright_lights/Bally's first in-line bingo machine
25.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlthe introduction of the "flipper" to pinball by D. Gottlieb and Company in December of 1947
26.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlThe advent of the flipper had made "amusement pinballs" less likely to be outlawed as gambling devices due to their increased "skill factor" [...] But the "one-balls" were an entirely different story.
27.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.htmloriginally three, and then four, sections of holes on their playfields labeled PURSE, SHOW, PLACE, and WIN, starting at the top. Each section contained either 7 or 8 numbered holes into which the one ball available per game could drop
28.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.htmlAt the start of each game one or more numbers (of the 7 or 8 available on the game) would be lit on the game's backboard. In order for a player to "win" he had to get his ball into a hole corresponding to a lighted number in one of the "sections" on the playfield. "Odds", indicating how many coins the player would receive for matching a lighted number in each section of the playfield (WIN paying the most), would also light on the backboard
29.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballThe one balls allowed for multiple coin play, but the player only had one ball to achieve their goal and win some number of replays in return.
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- A one-ball is a horse-race betting machine in the body of a pinball game. The player gets a single ball per game, shot onto a playfield divided into sections of numbered holes — Purse, Show, Place and Win in the classic layout, each holding seven or eight numbers that stand for the horses in a race.[1] At the start of a game the backglass lights one or more winning numbers, along with the odds each section pays; the player wins by dropping the ball into a hole whose number is lit, and Win pays the most.[2] These were multiple-coin machines: a player could keep feeding in coins before the shot, playing for winnings rather than a score.[3] ## Origins The type descends from pinball's first split. *Rocket* (1933, [[manufacturer:bally]]) was the first automatic payout machine,[4] and pin game design promptly divided into gambling "payouts" and "novelty" amusement games, the payout games that offered a single ball per game becoming known in the trade as "one-balls".[5] The horse-race dressing arrived in the mid-1930s and lasted the life of the format.[6] The games were named for famous racehorses, racetracks and other racing terms — *[[title:blue-grass]]* and *[[title:turf-king]]* among them — and their massive cabinets typically reached the floor rather than standing on legs.[7] ## Built to draw coins Everything in the design worked to draw another coin. A later one-ball lit its selections at random with each coin inserted — the next coin might light one more number or all of them[8] — and on the machines the trade called "one-ball multiples" the payoff was multiplied by up to four as the coins went in.[9] With the pair *[[title:lexington]]* and *[[title:citation]]* (1948), Bally introduced "Guaranteed Advancing Odds": an additional coin could raise the odds or leave them unchanged but never lower them, and players responded by inserting more.[10] Machines shipped as near-identical twins — Bally marked the war's end with *[[title:victory-derby]]*, which paid out directly in coins, and *[[title:victory-special]]*, which registered its awards as replays[11][12] — and "Special" in a name ordinarily signified the free-play model.[13] The replay versions were gambling machines all the same: the location owner paid winners cash for their accumulated free games and cleared them with a concealed knock-off button.[14] ## The trade The Second World War halted pinball production, the factories turning to war work,[15] and the payout field never refilled. Bally returned to it nearly alone[16] — the Victory pair were its first new games after the war[11] — while [[manufacturer:gottlieb]] made its last payout game, *[[title:new-daily-races]]*, in 1947.[17][18] [[manufacturer:keeney]] built a few more, and late in the era [[manufacturer:universal-industries-inc-chicago-a-subsidiary-of-united-manufacturing-co]], a firm set up under [[manufacturer:united]] to build console slots and one-balls, made some notably sophisticated horse-race machines.[19] ## Outlawed and replaced The end came by name. Anti-gambling ordinances took to naming "one-ball games" as an outlawed type,[20] and Bally watched a market it practically owned dry up under legislation aimed at its product.[21] Its hedge was the "Skill Lane", a factory option that nominally turned a one-ball into a five-ball game for jurisdictions that had banned the type.[22][23] The federal Johnson Act of 1950 then banned interstate shipment of gambling devices except into states where they were legal,[24] and the one-ball was virtually outlawed by 1951.[6] The industry's replacement arrived that same year: a pin game playing five balls and scoring by lighting numbers in a pattern, sold by Bally first as *[[title:bright-lights]]* — the beginning of the [[game-format:bingo-pinball]] line, created expressly to take the one-ball's place.[25][26][27] Amusement [[game-format:pinball]] went the other way: the [[gameplay-feature:flippers]] introduced at the end of 1947[28] gave it a claim of skill to argue in court — a defense the one-ball never had.[29]
- 1.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.html
originally three, and then four, sections of holes on their playfields labeled PURSE, SHOW, PLACE, and WIN, starting at the top. Each section contained either 7 or 8 numbered holes into which the one ball available per game could drop
2.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.htmlAt the start of each game one or more numbers (of the 7 or 8 available on the game) would be lit on the game's backboard. In order for a player to "win" he had to get his ball into a hole corresponding to a lighted number in one of the "sections" on the playfield. "Odds", indicating how many coins the player would receive for matching a lighted number in each section of the playfield (WIN paying the most), would also light on the backboard
3.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballThe one balls allowed for multiple coin play, but the player only had one ball to achieve their goal and win some number of replays in return.
4.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #1987'Rocket' was the first automatic payout machine.
5.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/enterpayouts.htmlAt that point pingame design began to split in two directions, "payouts", and "novelty" games. [...] Many of the payout games only offered the player one ball per game and became known as "one- balls".
6.Pinball Collectors Resource — http://www.pinballcollectorsresource.com/russ_files/bally.htmlA more complicated motif of payout pin, which developed in the mid thirties and lasted until they were virtually outlawed in 1951, was the so-called "One-Ball Horserace" Pinball.
7.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmldiffered mainly in their massive cabinets. Instead of individual legs, many one- balls had the front and back of the cabinet touching the floor. [...] The names of most of these games were those of famous racehorses, racetracks, or other "racy" terms.
8.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlInstead of each coin lighting one additional selection, later one-balls offered a random selection or selections with each additional coin - from one to possibly all selections could be lit with each coin inserted.
9.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlthe payoff for achieving a "win" would be multiplied by the numbers of coins inserted (up to 4). [...] These machines came to be know as "One-ball Multiples" within the industry.
10.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlThen in 1949, with the introduction of the one-ball "pair" LEXINGTON/CITATION, Bally introduced what was known as "Guaranteed Advancing Odds." This meant that insertion of additional coins would either increase the odds or leave them unchanged; in no case would they ever decrease. [...] Thus, players tended to insert more additional coins making for better profits for the operator.
11.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/mcp/racy.htmlWhen the war ended Bally celebrated the event by coming out with their first new pingames, a pair of one-balls called VICTORY SPECIAL and VICTORY DERBY. These two games were virtually identical except that the former indicated "awards" as replays, with the latter paying off directly in coins.
12.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballeach one ball game made in the 1940s was produced in two models: a "replay" version, which contained a three-digit replay counter (which could be zeroed out at whim), and a "payout" version, which paid the player in nickels, directly upon winning.
13.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlThese were often released in pairs with similar names, such a s JOCKEY CLUB and JOCKEY SPECIAL, with the term "special" in the name normally used to signify the "free play" version.
14.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmleven the "free play" versions were used mostly for gambling, with the location owner paying off for "free games" and using the "knock- off button"
15.Pacific Pinball Museum — https://www.pacificpinball.org/pinball-gamblingthe US entry into WWII would halt pinball production almost completely as the nation redirected resources toward the war effort
16.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlAbout the only company which began producing "payout" pinballs after the war was Bally.
17.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlGottlieb, which had produced many "payouts" before the war, made their last payout machine in 1947, a game called DAILY RACES
18.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #629Only post WW-II payout game made by Gottlieb.
19.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlIn the late Forties there were also a few "one-balls" made by manufacturers other than Bally, Keeney made a few, and another outfit, Universal Industries (which was actually a subsidiary of Lyn Durant's United Manufacturing set up to manufacture console slots and "one-balls") also made some rather sophisticated one-ball horserace machines.
20.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlMany ordinances specifically mentioned "one-ball games" as a type which were outlawed
21.Bingo Pinballs — http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/bright_lights/Bally saw the market for one-ball machines - which they practically owned - drying up due to legislation that specifically identified one-balls as gambling devices
22.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlthe main idea of this was that a "one-ball game" (specifically outlawed in many areas) now became a "five ball game"
23.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #2672Skill Lane option for 5-ball jurisdictions.
24.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlThat law banned inter-state shipment of "gambling devices" (including repair parts, manuals, etc.) except to states in which the device was legal.
25.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlSo, in 1951, a new type of pingame came into being to replace the "one-balls". [...] used 5 balls ("one-ball" was definitely out) and scored replays by lighting numbers in a given pattern
26.Kineticist — https://www.kineticist.com/news/a-beginners-guide-to-bingo-pinballBingo pinball machines were made as a reaction to the passing of the Johnson Act in 1950.
27.Bingo Pinballs — http://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/bally/bright_lights/Bally's first in-line bingo machine
28.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/postwar.htmlthe introduction of the "flipper" to pinball by D. Gottlieb and Company in December of 1947
29.Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/history/gamblingpins/johnson.htmlThe advent of the flipper had made "amusement pinballs" less likely to be outlawed as gambling devices due to their increased "skill factor" [...] But the "one-balls" were an entirely different story.
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