Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (3 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 381 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (11 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Trap Holes ×25 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/381/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/381/image-21.jpg"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 535 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This listing represents Bally 'Broadway' Model 535 and previously carried an incorrect name of 42nd and Broadway. The schematic part number is W-348c showing an issue date of 1951. The earliest Billboard ad that we found for this game (not shown here) is a distributor ad dated Sept-1-1951 page 85 and it referred to this game as "new". We have not found any ads placed by the manufacturer. The pictures in this listing show that Bally's six-card Bright Lights bingo game from April 1951 was reused to make this one-card game by mounting in the backbox the light board for a single large bingo card directly onto the front of the insert of that earlier game, covering its six smaller cards. Several stepper units in the backbox for multiple card operation have been manually disabled. The backbox itself is deeper in size when compared to Bright Lights, probably to accommodate the extra space required behind the backglass for the added light board. The underside of the playfield is tagged 'Bright Lights' and the playfield art design is the same. The cabinet art is the same, however the paint lines on the coin door do not fully coincide with those of the cabinet. This coin door is further different, having a start button and a coin chute instead of a coin slide, and may be a repainted after-factory replacement. The schematic that came with the game is also pictured here and carries a part number found in Bally documentation assigned to Model 535. This schematic clearly shows it is a replay game with a replay counter. However, in the game pictured here, a portion of the backbox unit that searches for winning score combinations has been removed from the game, leaving clipped wires. This means no replays are ever awarded in spite of the score cards that were included with the game, and the knocker never operates. As a result, this particular game operates as a 5-ball novelty game, even while its inoperative replay unit remains visible to the player. It seems excessive to have physically deconstructed the search unit in this way when unsoldering wires would have been simpler and easily reversible, but perhaps it was necessary to show local authorities on demand that this game could never award replays. Reportedly, several of these games were operated in the Syracuse, New York area where replays were illegal. Perhaps the different coin door was necessary for New York operation. We don't know how many units of this Model 535 were made, and since the game pictured here reportedly is the only example that anyone has found, we do not know if other examples would have the unusual backbox insert modification. Even so, we have no reason to believe this modification and deeper backbox were not produced by Bally. The mirrored backglass is an original design and does carry the brand name. We suggest that any unauthorized party making a backglass would not have risked using the brand name or have bothered with the added expense of mirroring. Interestingly, although the schematic defends Broadway as a replay game, Bally's internal documentation identifies Model 535 as a "5-ball novelty" while clearly listing other machines of this type as "bingo". It is hard to know what Bally was thinking, when we find no ads placed by them, and the old Billboard ads we do find are minimal notices placed by distributors located in Los Angeles and other territories where replays were legal. The score cards imply a replay unit payoff, but could also be used in restricted territories to direct the location to pay off the player when law enforcement was not looking. Bright Lights and Broadway were Bally's first two bingo machines following a gap of many years since their very first one in 1937, Line-Up. Bally later made a different bingo game with the same name and a different backglass. See Bally's 1955 'Broadway'. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 5 balls for 5 cents. Trap holes (25). Mirrored backglass. Sound: knocker used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog broadway-2 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Broadway used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog broadway-2 used