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- By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (GameplayFeature)
- description
- A free ball return lane is a lane that delivers the ball to the shooter alley instead of to the drain, so the player plunges the same ball again; unlike a [[gameplay-feature:free-ball-gates]], it has no gate across it and is open whenever the ball finds it.[1] [[manufacturer:gottlieb]] built the lane into a run of machines around 1970 and called it a mid-field ball back — *[[title:scuba]]* (1970) is the example the term is usually explained by.[2] The idea came back four decades later on the other side of the flipper: [[manufacturer:stern-pinball]] machines from *[[title:star-trek-stern]]* (2013) to *[[title:rush]]* (2022) run a return lane behind the flipper that carries the ball round to the shooter lane, and [[manufacturer:american-pinball]] uses the same arrangement.
- 1.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php Archive
A lane that delivers the ball to the shooter alley. Typically, this lane has no gate and therefore is always "open".
2.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php ArchiveAn example of this is found on Gottlieb's 1970 'Scuba' where it is referred to as a "mid-field ball back feature".
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- gameplay_feature_alias
- Alias value
- Free Ball Return Lane Behind Flipper
- gameplay_feature_parent
- Parent
- Lanes
- name
- Free Ball Return Lanes
- slug
- free-ball-return-lanes
- status
- active