Back Elektra

Sources

OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Conflicts resolved (3 fields)

month
OPDB 3 IPDB 12 Flipcommons Catalog 3 used
gameplay_feature
IPDB Captive Ball used IPDB 2-Ball Multiball used IPDB Spinning Targets ×2 used IPDB Kick-Out Holes ×2 used IPDB Flippers ×6 used
credit
IPDB Tony Ramunni — Art IPDB Claude Fernandez — Design Flipcommons Catalog Claude Fernandez — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Tony Ramunni — 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
1981 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
opdb_id
GRVld-MDE3l OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
name
Elektra OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
theme
Fantasy IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
system
bally-as2518-35 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
production_quantity
2950 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
778 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (12 fields)

opdb.images
OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/aa8eea5a-283b-4d11-b713-b9cf0aa2aa7e-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/aa8eea5a-283b-4d11-b713-b9cf0aa2aa7e-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/aa8eea5a-283b-4d11-b713-b9cf0aa2aa7e-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":798,"height":600},"small":{"width":250,"height":188},"medium":{"width":640,"height":481}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true},{"type":"playfield","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/88a8e8d9-79be-4e3c-be53-17789b80c273-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/88a8e8d9-79be-4e3c-be53-17789b80c273-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/88a8e8d9-79be-4e3c-be53-17789b80c273-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":1008,"height":1243},"small":{"width":203,"height":250},"medium":{"width":519,"height":640}},"title":null,"primary":true}] 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/778/778f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/778f2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/778f3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/778f4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-A25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-33.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-34.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-35.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-36.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-37.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-38.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/778/image-39.jpg"] used
ipdb.model_number
IPDB 1248 used
ipdb.marketing_slogans
IPDB "A Three Level Electrifying Experience" used
ipdb.notes
IPDB First solid-state game with a three-level playfield. An earlier game with three levels is Chicago Vending Company's 1934 'Three Point'. The common version of backglass matches what is shown on the flyer, including the style of the "Elektra Girl". An earlier version backglass is shown in this listing and more closely resembles the original backglass painting with the original Elektra Girl. We have designated this backglass as Early Production. The quantity produced of these early glasses is unknown to us. Collector Bill Kurtz stated in an online auction: After this painting was completed, Bally executives felt that the expression on the girl's face was too stern and they weren't happy that the outlines of her nipples were visible in the artwork. So the Elektra Girl was redrawn and superimposed in the center of this painting, creating the more familiar ELEKTRA backglass for the production games. Bally produced a very small number of backglasses from this painting, however, before the Elektra Girl was redrawn. Included in this listing is the original artwork for the original Elektra Girl. Also included here are pictures of a game located in the USA that has a dual coin door to accommodate a bill validator. The photographer found no serial number stamped anywhere on the outside cabinet, including in the usual and expected place, but did not look at the circuits boards for serial number stickers there. Under the playfield was a stapled tag with a serial number that might read 000344. For more information on these dual coin doors, see Bally's 1982 'Vector'. Collector Christian Jacobs in Germany contacted us in 2014 stating he noticed on a few Vector cabinets that they appeared to be Elektra cabinet artwork overpainted with the Vector artwork. He recalled one such Vector game had serial number EVE 2405. We note that Vector was the next game produced after Elektra. Claude Fernandez (designer of Elektra) told us that if Bally had any leftover cabinets from the Elektra production they would have repainted them to be used for Vector instead of throwing them out. Greg Kmiec (designer of Vector) told us that perhaps Bally cut the production run of Elektra in order to push Vector into the market. used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB Flippers (6), Kick-out holes (2), Rollunder spinners (2). Multiball (2-ball), Captive ball (1), 2-in-line drop targets, Three-level playfield, Speech, Plexiglas main playfield covering. No pop bumpers on this game. The lower level is accessed by accummulating "Elektra Units" on the main playfield, and then draining the current ball in play. The lower level contains a 4th, separate ball. used
ipdb_rating
IPDB 7.4 used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
title
Flipcommons Catalog elektra used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog elektra used