Sources
OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (2 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Skill Shot used IPDB Kickback used IPDB 3-Ball Multiball used IPDB 2-Ball Multiball used IPDB Spinning Discs used IPDB Standup Targets used IPDB Messenger Balls used IPDB Slingshots ×2 used IPDB Mushroom Bumpers ×3 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×3 used IPDB Zipper Flippers ×2 used
- credit
- IPDB Dave Christensen — Art IPDB Ted Zale — Design Flipcommons Catalog Ted Zale — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Dave Christensen — Art used
Sources agree (11 fields)
- abbreviation
- FB OPDB, IPDB
- display_type
- score-reels OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- electromechanical OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 4 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 2 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1972 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- opdb_id
- G48ZN-Mb58O OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- name
- Fireball OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- theme
- Fantasy IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 3815 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 852 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (12 fields)
- opdb.images
- OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/2c75796d-ab8a-420c-b20d-686c0c62fff7-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/2c75796d-ab8a-420c-b20d-686c0c62fff7-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/2c75796d-ab8a-420c-b20d-686c0c62fff7-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":1080,"height":972},"small":{"width":250,"height":225},"medium":{"width":640,"height":576}},"title":null,"primary":true},{"type":"playfield","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/6a2ad0d9-5cdc-41fd-9851-11ce11aa00b4-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/6a2ad0d9-5cdc-41fd-9851-11ce11aa00b4-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/6a2ad0d9-5cdc-41fd-9851-11ce11aa00b4-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":916,"height":1500},"small":{"width":153,"height":250},"medium":{"width":391,"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/852/Overall_view.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/Machine.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/852f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/852f2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-33.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-34.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-35.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-38.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-39.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-40.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-41.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-46.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-47.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-48.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-49.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-50.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-54.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-55.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-56.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-62.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-51.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-52.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-53.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-61.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-60.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-59.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-58.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-42.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-43.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-44.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-45.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-37.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-57.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-36.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-63.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-64.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-65.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-66.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-67.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-68.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-70.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/852/image-69.png"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 926 used
- ipdb.marketing_slogans
- IPDB "A lightning storm of scoring action and profit power in a 4-player flipper" used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The spinning disk was promoted in the flyer as a whirlwind spinner. To our knowledge, this is the only flyer to use that term. Fireball was not the first pinball machine to have this feature. An earlier example is Electro-Ball Company, Inc.'s 1932 'Jig-alo Electro-Ball'. 'Fireball' sold new for $895. A German version was also produced. Our example of the German version pictured here has a backbox with a Later Production serial number 5099 and a lower cabinet with serial number 5094. Because the production run for 'Fireball' began at number 1001, we would expect the final number to be 4815. These "Later Production" serial numbers point to a larger quantity made than what Bally documentation shows. Per a Play Meter article dated November 1977 (shown here), Chip Carter, son of President Jimmy Carter, bought a 'Fireball' pinball and had it delivered to his home in Plains, Georgia which was also the home of his father. An article in The Cash Box, Oct-15-1977, page 49 (not shown here) corroborates this. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Zipper flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Mushroom bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Captive ball kick-out holes (2), Messenger ball (1), Standup target (1), Spinning disk (1), Multiball (2 or 3), Left outlane kickback, Right-side ball return gate, Ramp skill shot. used
- ipdb_rating
- IPDB 7.8 used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog fireball used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog fireball used