Sources
OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (3 fields)
- month
- OPDB 7 IPDB 6 Flipcommons Catalog 7 used
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Ball Kickers used IPDB Spinning Targets used IPDB Kick-Out Holes ×2 used IPDB Rollunders ×3 used IPDB 3-Bank Drop Targets ×2 used IPDB 3-Bank Standup Targets ×4 used IPDB Mushroom Bumpers used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×2 used IPDB Flippers ×4 used
- credit
- IPDB Rehman Merchant — Software IPDB Howard Shere — Software IPDB Michael Bartlow — Sound IPDB Greg Freres — Art IPDB Dan Langlois — Design Flipcommons Catalog Michael Bartlow — Sound used Flipcommons Catalog Rehman Merchant — Software used Flipcommons Catalog Howard Shere — Software used Flipcommons Catalog Dan Langlois — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Greg Freres — Art used
Sources agree (10 fields)
- display_type
- alphanumeric OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- solid-state OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 4 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1986 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- opdb_id
- G562j-MDyoK OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Black Belt OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- theme
- Martial Arts IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- system
- bally-6803 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 600 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 303 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (10 fields)
- opdb.images
- OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/f10dcbe1-3bd9-4615-860b-b162208f033f-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/f10dcbe1-3bd9-4615-860b-b162208f033f-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/f10dcbe1-3bd9-4615-860b-b162208f033f-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":651,"height":600},"small":{"width":250,"height":230},"medium":{"width":640,"height":590}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true}] used
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Bally Midway Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/303f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/303f2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/303/image-11.jpg"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 0E52 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB 'Black Belt' is Bally's first game to have their "Self-Percentaging" feature. Rehman Mercahnt told us that Howard Shere took over the software programming when Rehman went to another project. This game was also produced as Bally Midway's 1986 'Karate Fight'. Artist Greg Freres had to change the name on the backglass from Black Belt to Karate Fight at the request of a European distributor. We do not know if this became a permanent change in the production run, or was only a backglass substitution occurring before games designated for export went out the door. Freres does not recall the distributor's specific reason for the name change or how it actually affected the Black Belt production run, and offers the possibility that all games shipped as Black Belt and then Bally shipped the new glasses later. It could be that the name was changed for Europe to avoid confusion with Zaccaria's 1986 'Blackbelt' released a few months before. We presume the Production Run quantity of 600 shown here includes the games having the Karate Fight backglasses. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (2), Mushroom bumper (1), 3-bank standup targets (4), 3-bank drop targets (2), Rollunders (3), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning target (1), Ball kicker (1), Right outlane detour gate. The drop targets have standup targets behind them. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-midway-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog black-belt-karate-fight used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog black-belt used