- credit
- Dick White — Art
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 5103
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- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.notable_features
- Unlike the EM version, hitting the A-B-C-D targets in sequence awards extra bonus points in addition to lighting the double bonus.
Game was controlled by the "Bally Brain" which is a small board with a microprocessor on it that clips into two connectors on the backbox motherboard. It was based on the Intel 4-bit 4004, the world's first single-chip microprocessor.
- ipdb.notes
- Engineer Jeff Frederiksen of Dave Nutting Associates designed this engineering prototype for Bally, converting an EM version of Bally's 1975 'Flicker' having serial number #1074.
In our Files section is an interesting GameRoom article written and provided to us by Alexis Tzannes that details the chance "discovery" of this prototype in 1998 and its place in history as the basis for Mirco Games, Inc.'s 1975 'Spirit of 76' and other solid state games that followed.
The original Bally Brain card was lost prior to 1998 but was recreated in 2011 and installed in this game.
Patent 4,093,232 [Player operated game apparatus] filed May 13, 1975, granted June 6, 1978 to David J. Nutting and Jeffrey E. Frederiksen, assignee is Bally Manufacturing Corporation.
- player_count
- 2
- production_quantity
- 1
- technology_generation
- solid-state
- theme
- Show Business