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  1. By IPDB
    credit
    Don Hooker — Design
    gameplay_feature
    Skill Shot
    gameplay_feature
    Trap Holes ×25
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Bally Manufacturing Corporation
    ipdb_id
    3659
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    ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
    Bally
    ipdb.marketing_slogans
    "Greatest Line-Or-Section Game in History"
    ipdb.model_number
    737
    ipdb.notable_features
    Trap holes (25). Magic Screen, OK Feature, Super OK Feature, Extra OK Feature, Skill Shot.
    ipdb.notes
    The date of manufacture is stamped on the side of the cabinet and backbox. For example, the game shown in this listing stamped with serial number 'B869' also has the date '10-31-63' stamped on it. Bally's game listing also shows 'Bounty' as project #727 being a novelty game. Pictured in this listing is an operator-modified backglass. In the lower left corner, the factory's silkscreened text was scraped off and new rules pasted there, accompanied by some rewiring. Reportedly, at least one or two operators in Nevada were known to do this to make the game less liberal. The cabinet has a multi-colored paint theme (probably "Zolatone") often used in Nevada to make the games all look the same. Another Zolatone cabinet pictured here has been modified to include a payout mechanism. Also pictured is an alternate backglass having naked ladies on it, among other differences. The Bally brand name has been replaced with the letters "BGS". We have no further information on this glass. Prior to the production of Bounty in August of 1963, Bally had been producing bingo machines at a pace of about 6 to 8 models per year until Shoot-A-Line of October 1962, after which they completely halted production of bingos. This action was in anticipation of the imminent passage of the Eastland Bill (S-1658, for James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee) which would have outlawed the interstate transportation of gambling devices (per Billboard, Sept 15, 1962, page 34). One of the visible proponents for the Senate Bill was Rufus King, attorney for D. Gottlieb and Company. The Eastland Bill, formally known as the Gambling Devices Act of 1962, was signed by President Kennedy on October 18, 1962 and made effective 60 days later, in December 1962. Bally turned to the full-time production of pinball machines, a line for which they had made fewer than two dozen models from the end of WWII to 1958. They started with Moon Shot in January 1963, a blatant copy of Gottlieb's 1962 'Tropic Isle'. By June of 1963, Bally reported a drop in sales of 40 per cent since the passage of the Eastland Bill, due to the cutback of their bingo line (per Billboard, June 22, 1963, page 45). An amendment added to the Bill in final Senate-House conference committee allowed Bally to restart bingo production to ship overseas and to Louisiana, South Carolina, and other unspecified stateside areas. Bounty was Bally's first bingo game once they restarted production of these machines. Bally continued to produce pinball machines and at a greater pace than they made new bingo games. Their last bingo game of which we are aware was 1980's Continental.
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical