5-Bank Drop Targets

A Bank Drop Targets configuration with five Drop Targets in a row. The five-target bank was ideal for spelling five-letter words or representing poker hands, giving designers a longer completion challenge. IPDB catalogs approximately 245 machines with this arrangement — nearly as common as the four-bank — with prominent examples including Flash (1978), Playboy (1978), and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1976). The wider bank demanded more playfield real estate but rewarded players with proportionally larger bonuses for completing the full sequence.