Sources
OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (2 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Multiball used IPDB Kick-Out Holes used IPDB Slingshots ×4 used IPDB Passive Bumpers ×2 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×4 used IPDB Flippers ×2 used
- theme
- IPDB Circus IPDB Happiness used Flipcommons Catalog Circus used Flipcommons Catalog Carnival used
Sources agree (9 fields)
- display_type
- score-reels OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- electromechanical OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 2 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 8 OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1956 OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- opdb_id
- G5KJW-MDEZn OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Balls-A-Poppin OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 750 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 144 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (12 fields)
- opdb.images
- OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/5a2d9ff9-f943-4a0f-b084-3e00c40b0f69-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/5a2d9ff9-f943-4a0f-b084-3e00c40b0f69-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/5a2d9ff9-f943-4a0f-b084-3e00c40b0f69-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":500,"height":404},"small":{"width":250,"height":202},"medium":{"width":500,"height":404}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true}] used
- reward_type
- IPDB Replay used
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/144f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/144/image-29.jpg"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 584 used
- ipdb.marketing_slogans
- IPDB "With Riotously Exciting Wild Balls" used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 'Balls-A-Poppin' was the first flipper machine to feature multiball play. An earlier flipperless electromechanical pinball machine that also featured multiball play was Dudley-Clark Co.'s 1934 'Live Power'. On early production examples of this game, the legs are attached to the side of the cabinet at an angle, as in the flyer. However, somewhere in production between the manufacture of games having the serial numbers B1358 and B1458, the leg design was changed to have them be vertically attached to the corners of the cabinet. Compare this playfield design to the narrow-body Gottlieb's 1956 'Toreador' which came out shortly before this game. The playfield design was used again on Bally's 1957 'Circus'. Manufacturer's list price $485.00 per Cash Box, Dec-29-1956, page 77. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Passive bumpers (2), Slingshots (4), Kick-out hole (1). Left ball shooter lane. Variable multiball, up to 9 balls. Four rollover buttons advance Wild Ball counter on backglass. A ball landing in the kick-out hole launches all Wild Balls from the left shooter lane, starting multiball. Having multiple balls on the playfield makes for more frequent hitting of the rollover advance buttons and landing in the kick-out hole, therefore a continuous multiball session often can be achieved, lasting a long time. During a game, every rollover and lit bumper causes a small knocker to pop, and this sound becomes very exciting during multiball. Although the backglass Wild Ball counter stops at 6, the game is equipped with 9 balls to allow for a continuous multiball experience. 3 or 5 ball play. The cabinet measures 24 inches wide, or 25 inches wide when including the side wood rails. Maximum displayed point score is 4,999 points per player. Replay wheel maximum: 25 Sound: knocker only, no bells. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog balls-a-poppin-circus used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog balls-a-poppin used