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Licensed and intended as a production title but cancelled, leaving a single hand-built unit.

production_status

Unreleased

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6435

This game was licensed by Gottlieb LLC to be Retro Pinball's second production game, following Retro Pinball LLC's 2010 'King of Diamonds'. It did not go into production and this prototype was the only one made.

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Tag

Prototype

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6435

This game was licensed by Gottlieb LLC to be Retro Pinball's second production game, following Retro Pinball LLC's 2010 'King of Diamonds'. It did not go into production and this prototype was the only one made.

The year the sole prototype was built. There is no date of manufacture to record, since the game was never manufactured.

year

2008

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6435

This prototype is entirely electromechanical operation and was hand-built in 2008 by Herb Silvers and his technician while his shop personnel applied the cabinet art.

Retro Pinball's recreation of the 1965 Gottlieb machine, which is the one of the several same-named Bank-A-Ball records the source points at. Also re-homed onto that machine's title: the two records are one game, so the remake belongs with its original rather than alone in its own title. The 1932 Linck, 1933 United and 1950 Gottlieb games of the same name are unrelated and keep their own titles.

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Bank-A-Ball (Gottlieb 1965)

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6435

Pictured here is a prototype of a woodrail version of the metal-railed wedge head Gottlieb's 1965 'Bank-A-Ball'.

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Bank-A-Ball → Bank-A-Ball / Flipper Pool

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6435

Pictured here is a prototype of a woodrail version of the metal-railed wedge head Gottlieb's 1965 'Bank-A-Ball'.

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Gameplay feature

Mechanical Backbox Animations

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #6435

Mechanical backbox animation (metal billiard balls drop into view)

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Gameplay feature

Rotating Targets

Count

1

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Gameplay feature

Flippers

Count

2

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Gameplay feature

Standup Targets

Count

6

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Gameplay feature

Pop Bumpers

Count

3

ipdb_id

6435

player_count

1

production_quantity

1

technology_generation

Electromechanical

theme

Billiards

corporate_entity

Retro Pinball LLC

ipdb_id

6435

name

Bank-A-Ball

player_count

1

production_quantity

1

slug

bank-a-ball-6

technology_generation

Electromechanical

theme

Theme

Billiards

title

Bank-A-Ball