Kickback Lanes

Lanes containing a Kickback mechanism — a solenoid-powered kicker positioned within a lane that fires the ball back onto the playfield when the ball enters. While the term Kickback refers broadly to the rescue mechanism itself, kickback lanes describe the specific lane structure housing it, typically found along the outlanes or in upper-playfield return paths. Early examples appear on Electromechanical machines of the mid-1970s, such as Aztec (1976) by Williams, where an upper-right kickback lane served as both a scoring lane and a ball-return route.