- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×26
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 792
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/792/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/792/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/792/image-3.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 496
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1, 2, or 5 ball play (operator option). Trap holes (26). A-B-C-D feature. Spell-Name feature. Coin drop on wooden lockdown bar. Operates on single coin or multiple coins (operator option).
- ipdb.notes
- This is a reissue of Bally's 1938 'Eureka'. The original game had a shorter backbox and a cabinet not as deep. Bally reissued this game post-war only as a free-play, table-style model and intentionally gave it no "race-horse atmosphere".
Bally announced this game in a Cash Box article dated Jul-21-1947, page 44, and placed large picture ads of it through September in The Billboard and Cash Box. In the following months, distributor ads offered this game for sale for $489.50. Bally's Numerical List of Machines and their Alphabetical List of Bally Machines both identify this game as Model 496 and as "5 ball free play" but inexplicably show a release (to production) date of 2-20-48, seven months after it was announced. Considering the heavy advertising, this 1948 date must be incorrect. We don't know if the date should have read 2-20-47 or if 2-20-48 belonged to a different game on these lists.
- month
- 7
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1947