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- Left kicker lanes are [[gameplay-feature:kicker-lanes]] on the left side of the playfield: a channel with a solenoid [[gameplay-feature:kickers]] in it that strikes the ball as it passes and sends it on with more speed than it arrived with.
The difference from a [[gameplay-feature:left-kickback-lanes]] is direction. A kickback lane sends the ball back the way it came; a kicker lane keeps it going, and exists to move the ball from one part of the playfield to another. [[manufacturer:bally]] was the heaviest user, from *[[title:3-in-line-2]]* (1935) through *[[title:nip-it]]* (1973) and *[[title:future-spa]]* (1979), and Spanish and Italian makers took the fitting up in the same years.