Sources
OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (3 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB 2-Ball Multiball used IPDB Spinning Targets used IPDB Solitary Drop Targets used IPDB 3-Bank Drop Targets ×2 used IPDB Kick-Out Holes used IPDB Slingshots ×2 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×4 used
- theme
- IPDB Science Fiction IPDB Fantasy Flipcommons Catalog Science Fiction used Flipcommons Catalog Fantasy 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
- month
- 6 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1981 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- opdb_id
- G4qk7-MNEjx OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Embryon OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- system
- bally-as2518-35 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 2250 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 783 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (15 fields)
- tag
- OPDB Widebody used
- abbreviation
- OPDB EMB used
- opdb.images
- OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/a66cd510-aeaa-46a4-bee8-7913e5ca69f8-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/a66cd510-aeaa-46a4-bee8-7913e5ca69f8-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/a66cd510-aeaa-46a4-bee8-7913e5ca69f8-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":556,"height":416},"small":{"width":250,"height":187},"medium":{"width":556,"height":416}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true}] used
- opdb.features
- OPDB ["Widebody"] 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/783/Backglass2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/783f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/783f2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-35.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-36.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-37.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-38.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-39.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-33.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-34.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-40.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-41.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-42.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-43.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-44.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-45.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-46.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-47.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-48.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-51.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-50.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/783/image-49.png"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 1222 used
- ipdb.marketing_slogans
- IPDB "The Next Revolution in the Science of Supersized Pinball." "Journey to an Unexplored Reality." used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB Unlike other Bally electronic pinball games, their documentation for this game shows the model number only as 1222, not 1222-E. Embryon was the first Bally game to feature artwork by Tony Ramunni and the last widebody pinball from Bally Manufacturing Company before it was bought by Williams. It was also the only game from this company to use their trademarked "Flipsave" ball saving feature - a small vertical flipper located in the right outlane used by players to flip draining balls back into the return lane. Pictured in this listing is original concept art from Tony Rammuni. Collector Bill Kurtz stated in an online auction: This artwork was done as an example to show Bally executives what the finished playfield artwork would look like. The areas where the plastic light shields belong are blank, but all of the artwork that would be screened onto the wooden playfield is here. This artwork was the first time that Rammuni signed his full name on the backglass artwork; his earlier work for Williams was signed simply as "Ramunni." Apparently, Ramunni used the back of this tagboard to practice his signature for the backglass, since he painted his name several times. Ramunni has also painted an "Elektra Crystal" on the back of the tagboard -- the next pinball game that he created artwork for was ELEKTRA. And there are also some handwritten notes on the back of the tagboard about various colors and halftones. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Flippers (4, includes one shorter "timed Flipsave" flipper in right outlane), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Kick-out hole (1), 3-bank drop targets (2), Solitary drop target (1), Rollunder spinner (1). Four messenger balls, each of two are protected by a drop target, and two more are propelled by a fifth ball common to both of their chambers. Multiball (2-ball). Has Speech. Number of pinballs installed: 2 used
- ipdb_rating
- IPDB 7.9 used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog embryon used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog embryon used