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- Dual outlanes are two [[gameplay-feature:outlanes]] side by side on each flank of the lower playfield, so a ball leaving the flipper area has an adjacent pair of channels to be lost down rather than a single one.[1]
The layout belongs to the years before the inlane. The flipper return lane — the channel that feeds a ball back to the flipper instead of past it — arrived in 1965,[2] and until then everything outside the flippers was drain, which designers divided into a pair of scoring lanes rather than leaving as one. [[manufacturer:gottlieb]] was much the heaviest user, from *[[title:harvest-moon]]* (1948) through *[[title:sunset]]* (1962), and [[manufacturer:williams]] built the same layout into its 1964 *[[title:zig-zag-wing-ding]]* pair.[1] Afterwards the doubling moved inward: machines that want two lanes to a side now double the return lane instead, as [[gameplay-feature:dual-inlanes]].
1. Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php Archive Two outlanes on each side of lower playfield, as in the examples of Gottlieb's 1962 'Sunset' and Williams' 1964 'Zig Zag'.
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